The Northport Arts Association is having an Attic Art & Vintage Fundraiser Sale Memorial Day weekend, Saturday, May 25, from 8 am until 4 pm, and Sunday, May 26, from noon until 4 pm at the Village Arts Building, 301 N. Mill Street.
A Plow Day groundbreaking ceremony and celebration of National Historic Preservation Month will take place at the Leelanau County Poor Farm Barn in Myles Kimmerly Park near Maple City on Saturday, May 25, from 10 am until noon.
With the Leelanau Conservancy’s Wildflower Rescue Plant Sale just 10 days away, volunteers were on a mission to dig 500 trillium plants in just over an hour. Four workers met up in Northport to car-pool to the Garthe Farm, where owners Gene and Kathy Garthe met them with open arms.
Terry Gretzema stepped down in March after serving as Glen Arbor Township’s Treasurer for 15 years.
On Sunday, May 26, at 1 pm, M. Christine Byron and Thomas R. Wilson—authors of Historic Leelanau: Recognized Sites and Places of Historical Significance (Leelanau Press, $20) will visit the Cottage Book Shop on Lake Street in Glen Arbor.
In celebration of the 100-year anniversary of the League of Women Voters Michigan in April 2019 and passage of the 19th Amendment in 2020, the Leelanau League will feature Elaine Weiss, author of The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote as the keynote speaker on May 22.
“If you haven’t read Kathleen Stocking, you don’t know Leelanau.” So it is a great gift she gives us with her new book, Gathering Light—another collection of essays focused on the Leelanau but informed by almost 30 additional years of observing nature, participating in community, reading voraciously, traveling bravely, and endlessly pondering life on earth—from our little Up North paradise as it evolved through time to our place in the universe.
Two popular area trails—the Leelanau Trail and the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail—were among this year’s inaugural picks for the Pure Michigan Trail and Trail Town designation program.
A developer working on behalf of Dollar General has withdrawn its offer to purchase three lots from the Flaska family in Maple City, realtor Deb Brown confirmed to the Glen Arbor Sun. Brown, who represents the family, said the offer was withdrawn on Friday, May 10.
From staff reports The Glen Lake Library in Empire has temporarily moved to the green pole barn on M-22 just south of town (the former home of Grocers Daughter Chocolate) while the new library is being built on Front St. Pictured above is library director David Diller. Meanwhile, the Empire Lakeshore Inn has officially opened […]