Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in response to guidance from the Centers for Disease Control, Unites States Public Health Service, and Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department is announcing additional modifications to operations to support federal, state, and local efforts to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Today at 10 a.m. the Leelanau County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority will consider part 1 of a Brownfield Project Application from Sugar Loaf owner Jeff Katofsky and partner Rick Barreca to demolish and reconstruct the derelict one-time ski resort that has sat empty for 20 years in the heart of the County. Katofsky, a real estate developer, lawyer and minor league baseball team owner, acquired Sugar Loaf in 2016.
From staff reports Award-winning Ojibwe author and Maple City resident Lois Beardslee has published a new book this month with Wayne State University Press. The collection of poetry is titled Words like Thunder: New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers. Much of the book centers around Native people of the Great Lakes but has a universal relevance […]
We reached out to Mari Raphael, a registered nurse at the Grand Traverse Band Family Health Clinic and a tribal member, to hear how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting life for the tribe. The Leelanau Sands Casino is closed, and the tribe will begin furloughing workers next month. Nevertheless, the indispensable Family Health Clinic remains open.
Maple City lacks a grocery store, so Kelly Kieft and Scott Mills stepped forward to organize a pop-up food bank in front of Pegtown Station during the coronavirus pandemic. They encourage the public to drop off donations of ready-made food items, like soup, in a large bin near the wood shed located at the end of the driveway at the couple’s house at 8510 S. Maple St., in Maple City.
Jim and Ann Muennich launched Food Relief last month together with members of Suttons Bay Congregational church. Local restaurants are paid menu-prices for repacked lunches, which are then distributed to individuals and families. The goal is both to help people in need and to provide a revenue stream for local restaurants. Initial meals were purchased from Suttons Bay restaurants V.I. Grill, Streetside Grille, and 45th Parallel Cafe and distributed during Spring Break to school-age children. Food Relief has since transitioned to focus on providing meals for seniors. Donate online at sbcongregational.org.
“The governor doesn’t wear a badge. The governor doesn’t carry a gun. It’s just an [executive] order,” says Leelanau sheriff By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor Leelanau County Sheriff Mike Borkovich and his fellow sheriffs in Benzie, Manistee and Mason Counties today released a press release stating they would defy Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s executive order […]
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore reported today that it is closing trails, trailheads, picnic areas, parking areas, and boat launches until further notice, effective immediately. These operations are to support federal, state, and local efforts to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Through Central United Methodist Church in Traverse City and Leland Community United Methodist Church, Michelle White and a team of local volunteers cook meals, gather donations and deliver the meals to those in need during the coronavirus pandemic.
From staff reports They are doctors, nurses and healthcare workers. They stock the shelves, slice the deli meat, and run the registers at grocery stores, they deliver your meals curbside, delicately pinching the paper bag between gloved fingers. They are the EMS first responders, the firemen and the cops. They are the distilleries that turn […]