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Manitou Island Transit resumes ferry service May 28

Manitou Island Transit’s passenger ferry “Mishe-Mokwa” will resume service to the Manitou Islands on Friday, May 28, after record-high Lake Michigan water levels, flooded docks and the COVID-19 pandemic forced the family-owned business to take a year-long hiatus in 2020. “It’s a relief. We weren’t going to make it another year,” co-owner Megan Grosvenor Muñoz told the Sun. “But when you drop something for a year, getting everything up and running is difficult.”

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Memorial Day ceremony at Glen Arbor Township Cemetery honors Civil War veteran

For the first time in nearly a century there will be a memorial ceremony under the auspices of the Township of Glen Arbor at the old cemetery on Forest Haven Road. In 1977, half a century after the last person was buried there, the cemetery was mistakenly transferred to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in a land title mix-up. The error was discovered 18 months ago and was put to rights over the following year. The service will be at 10 a.m. on Friday, May 28. The public is welcome.

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Estate sale held at former Rich Quick property in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

An estate sale is planned for Saturday and Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, May 29-30 from 9 a.m.-9 p.m., at the former home of Rich Quick on Alligator Hill, overlooking Sleeping Bear Bay in the National Lakeshore. The address of the home is 8317 West Sky Line Drive, Empire. Proceeds from the sale will benefit Joshua Humphrey, 19 years old and the grandson of Quick’s late wife Bonnie. He will vacate the property next week as it passes into the hands of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on Tuesday, June 1.

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A poet’s singing voice rises from the Northport orchard

Julia Brabenec lives up in Northport, just off M-22, in a stone house that was built by her own hands, her husband’s and their children’s hands. The house sits in an organic orchard beside a vineyard. Petite in stature, eyes large and vibrant inside her heart-shaped face, Julia’s ever-present smile framed in fly-away silver and white, a vibrant shawl of orange and gold gracefully draped over her shoulders. Her voice, whether over the phone or in person, is assured and melodic, liberally embroidered with gracious notes of self-deprecation, gratefulness and humor.

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Health Department holds pop-up COVID vaccine clinics in Benzonia, Cedar, Frankfort, Lake Leelanau

The Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department is offering multiple opportunities for walk-in vaccinations on Friday, May 21, as well as easy appointment scheduling that can be found at www.bldhd.org.

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Masks in the time of Coronavirus: Leland’s Old Art Building co-hosts community art show

Over the last year more than 930 people nationwide decorated paper mache masks to explore their experiences related to the pandemic, and they are sharing them with the public at various virtual and in-person shows around northwest Michigan.

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Cherry Country Quilters for sale; honoring Linda Mead with COVID quilt

Vickie Hurst lost her 75-year-old mother Linda Mead to COVID-19 two days before the end of 2020. Linda was the owner and inspiration behind Cherry Country Quilters, which opened in downtown Suttons Bay in 2014. Vickie, along with Renee Wegman, who now runs the quilt shop, want to honor Linda and at least all 16 of the Coronavirus casualties of Leelanau County with a Commemorative Covid Quilt. Vickie hopes to sell the business, so her mother’s legacy and love for quilting live on. She is in the process of listing the business for sale through Nicole Anderson from Coldwell Banker Realty.

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Leelanau County Poor Farm Barn named a Michigan Barn of the Year

The Michigan Barn Preservation Network (MBPN) has designated the Leelanau County Poor Farm Barn as a Barn of the Year. A dedication event will be held outside the barn on Thursday, May 20, at 4 pm. A plaque and sign will be presented to Leelanau County Historic Preservation Society president Steve Stier. The public is invited to attend.

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Cottonseed Apparel changes ownership on 30th anniversary in Glen Arbor

Thirty years after Marc and Diana Oberschulte opened Cottonseed Apparel in 1991 on the site of Glen Arbor’s original Post Office on the corner of M-22 and Lake Street, Laurenn Rudd and Elizabeth Morgan Gray have acquired the clothing store.

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Nobody hurt in LeBear Resort fire; restaurant Blu closed indefinitely

A fire broke out early Saturday morning in a unit on the east side of LeBear Resort. Nobody was hurt, but the resort located at the north end of Lake Street in Glen Arbor suffered substantial damage. Blu, the restaurant attached to LeBear, was not affected by fire or water damage, but co-owner and chef Randy Chamberlain announced on Facebook yesterday that he will be closed indefinitely until utilities are restored.

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