Each time a singular noun popped up on the screen, Jalen Anderson moved and clicked the mouse to “whack” it. The eight-year-old, who lives in Peshawbestown and just started virtual third grade at Suttons Bay Public Schools, sat with her mother NaTasha to play the online whack-a-mole game, which was intended to help Jalen learn the difference between singular and plural words.
Cherry Republic will host a Drive-Up Job Fair on Wednesday, September 16, from 1-5 p.m. at its facility at 9896 W. Fisher St., Empire.
After a virtual spring and a mostly closed summer, Glen Arbor’s Leelanau School is welcoming students back for live, three-dimensional, hands-on learning.
The Glen Arbor Arts Center is accepting submissions of original paintings for its 2021 Manitou Music poster competition. The deadline for on-line submissions is September 17. This call-for-submissions is open to all current GAAC members. There is no application fee.
Beach “hardening” has begun, and a ramp has been formed to build a beach wall and rock riprap along a private Lake Michigan property on Storm Hill, south of Empire public beach and north of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore’s Empire Bluff.
Rebekah and Gerald TenBrink are the kind of neighbors that anyone in Leelanau County would be proud to know. This young couple not only talk about community, they also live it on a daily basis—and make it seem fun into the bargain. To spend time with them is to feel uplifted and hopeful, particularly in these troubling times of social unrest and the coronavirus pandemic.
The Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department will start providing drive up testing one day per week at each office starting in Leelanau on Tuesday, September 8, and Benzie on Wednesday, September 9.
You may have seen Noel Weeks at farm markets in Leelanau or Traverse City in the past few years. Maybe you noticed Facebook posts of La Casa Verde, his organic farm business. Maybe you decided to join his CSA this spring, when the Coronavirus gave you a new appreciation for locally grown, nutritious food. The slender young man’s soft voice and easy demeanor belies a fierce work ethic and relentless determination to succeed.
With bars in Traverse City and Bellaire writing lengthy pleas to the public to respect their employees, to refrain from cursing, spitting and worse, it was time to check in with Leelanau County’s wineries and see how they’ve managed the COVID-19 requirements of mask-wearing, distancing, sanitizing surfaces, and more.
Like all college students, Emma Spencer is trying to figure out her future while navigating the tentative present. Continue college on Zoom, or take a gap year? Pay the same tuition as if you were in classrooms with professors and students, or try to make money for next year? Stay home, or pull up stakes for someplace else? Engage people, or stay away from them?