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COVID-positive cases, close exposures rise at Glen Lake School—as vaccine approval for children nears

Glen Lake School is currently facing its highest COVID-19 positivity rate of the 2021-22 school year. As of Friday, Oct. 29, approximately 10 members of the school, including both students and staff, had tested positive. Those 10, combined with the number of close contacts who are quarantining at home this week, now total in the high-60s, Glen Lake superintendent Mark Mattson confirmed to the Glen Arbor Sun on Friday. That’s approximately 8% of the 835 members of the Glen Lake community—including 718 students and 117 staff members.

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Art’s offers football Saturday bargains; trick-or-treating Sunday

A big weekend awaits Glen Arbor. On Saturday, during the much hyped Michigan vs. Michigan State football game at noon, Art’s Tavern will offer bargain deals. “We’re going to double the price of everything on the menu and then take 50 percent off,” boasted Art’s jovial co-owner Tim Barr. “For both Wolverine and Spartan fans!”

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League of Women Voters hosts “Migrants in Leelanau County” forum

The League of Women Voters Leelanau County invites the public to participate in a virtual educational forum “Migrants in Leelanau County” on November 3 at noon.

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Glen Arbor Players present “Hound of the Baskervilles”

The Glen Arbor Players will stage Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most popular Sherlock Holmes mystery Hound of the Baskervilles October 28-30. Troupe co-founde, Harriett Mittelberger will direct a large and talented cast with 302 years of collective theatrical experience.

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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore celebrates 51st anniversary with virtual events

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is continuing to celebrate the park’s 50th anniversary with the theme of “51 is the new 50.” The Lakeshore and Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes are holding a virtual celebration on the park’s anniversary, Thursday, Oct. 21. This half-hour long Zoom event will begin at 7 p.m. and is free to the public. Links to this Zoom session can be found on the park’s website events calendar.

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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore seeks winter interns

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is pleased to announce that they will be recruiting additional winter interns for the 2021/2022 season to assist with snowshoe field trips, weekend hikes, and virtual distance learning programs.

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Conservancy hosts “Fall For Leelanau” activities, Oct. 18-24

The Leelanau Conservancy welcomes the second annual “Fall For Leelanau” weeklong schedule.

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Empire hosts Village Design and Community Septic Systems conference

The Michigan Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism and Sam Marts Architecture and Planning have organized a one-day conference at the Empire Township Hall on Friday, Oct. 22, that will focus on village design and community septic systems.

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An apple a day: Psenka family nourishes cidery dream

If “an apple a day keeps the doctor away,” just think what a whole orchard of the crisp autumn fruit can do for a person’s health. The adage certainly applied to the late Joe Psenka, whose daughter Lisa runs Leland’s Snowbird Inn and Jolli-Lodge, and son Chuck harvests cider apples, in hopes of carrying out their father’s dream.

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Cherry Country Quilters unveils COVID memorial quilt

A COVID memorial quilt made to honor those we’ve lost to the Coronavirus is finished and hanging on display at Cherry Country Quilters in Suttons Bay. The store, owned by Linda Mead, who died of COVID in late 2020, will close on Oct. 16. Cherry Country Quilters is currently holding a going-out-of-business sale.

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