From staff reports Tina (Taghon) Dunphey and husband Mark bought Tiffany’s Café in downtown Empire on Sept. 23. Mark teaches at Leelanau St. Mary in Lake Leelanau where their two sons attend school, so Tina will watch over the shop. They plan to be open through the winter on Fridays and Saturdays from 9-6 and […]
Today, the Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department reports a single-day record 20 new COVID-19 cases— 11 in Leelanau County and 9 in Benzie County. Yesterday the Health Department reported 11 cases—8 in Leelanau and 3 in Benzie.
The historic, 1870s era Kelderhouse-Brammer grist mill on the Crystal River is a step closer to being reborn—potentially next summer—as a museum, a café, and a community gathering space. Turner Booth, the ambitious entrepreneur who acquired the mill from The Homestead Resort two years ago, secured a site plan approval from the Glen Arbor Planning Commission on November 5.
Multiple COVID-19 cases among parents of students at Glen Lake Community Schools has prompted the district to cease face-to-face learning until after Thanksgiving, superintendent Jon Hoover told the Glen Arbor Sun today. Students will return on Monday, November 30. As many as 45 Glen Lake high school students didn’t show up for classes today, suggesting how widely COVID has spread among the school community.
Cherry Republic has been awarded a Top Workplaces 2020 honor by the Detroit Free Press.
The votes are in, and Leelanau County citizens supported Democrat Joe Biden for President over Donald Trump, by a count of 8,793-7,915. (Michigan’s statewide results are incomplete, as mail-in ballots continue to be counted. Results may not be unveiled until Thursday or Friday, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has stated.)
Leelanau County police expect a calm Election Day. But fears of voter intimidation and voter suppression are more prevalent downstate in Michigan’s cities, which lean Democratic and also represent a more racially diverse population. Some open-carry advocates and Trump supporters plan to travel from Northern Michigan to Detroit as poll watchers on Election Day.
You’ve seen the full-page advertisements this fall in local newspapers including the Glen Arbor Sun and the Leelanau Enterprise (the County’s weekly paper of record)—advertisements declaring: “it’s time to deal with our racism problem”; quoting County Commissioners whose diversions complicated the body’s effort to pass an anti-racism resolution; explaining that the “Black Lives Matter” movement doesn’t mean “Only Black Lives Matter”, and quoting the late Congressman and Civil Rights icon John Lewis.
Today the Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department reported 13 new cases of COVID-19 cases—matching the previous one-day record for the two counties on September 19.
Despite rumors to the contrary in recent years, the medium of radio is alive and well. In Leelanau County, independent radioheads share their love of music, practice citizen journalism, and produce feature segments over the airwaves and online, on venues such as Interlochen Public Radio and college radio station WNMC. Here are some of their stories.