The 46th annual Glen Lake Woman’s Club Art Fair will be at the Glen Arbor Town Hall on Wednesday, July 19, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This event hosts 100 artists carefully chosen to represent most areas of the art world. Lunch is available including the famous ”walking tacos”. The fair is free to attend.
The Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) welcomes the Moxie Strings back to the Manitou Music Festival Studio Stage on Sunday, July 23, at 8 p.m. Studio Stage is located behind Lake Street Studios, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor.
This year in the Glen Arbor Sun we’re publishing a series on the living legacy of the Native Americans. A desire to push back against the rise of xenophobia in contemporary America is not the only reason we chose to examine the living legacy of the local Odawa and Ojibwe among us. Across civil society in Northern Michigan, and throughout the nation, it seems that more and more people are interested in learning the Native perspective on this land and the human history it has witnessed.
Lindsay Lou and the Flatbellys bring bluegrass to the Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) Manitou Music Festival on Wednesday, July 19, at 8 p.m. The concert takes place at Studio Stage behind Lake Street Studios, 6023 S. Lake St. in Glen Arbor.
Glen Arbor Township recently contracted Aspen Wireless to install free WiFi for the public. Access was up and running by the end of June. According to operations manager Eric Laitala, the head-end is located at the Glen Arbor Township Hall.
The Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) welcomes the blues duo Mulebone back to its Manitou Music Festival Studio Stage on Sunday, July 16, 8 p.m. Studio Stage is located behind Lake Street Studios, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is requesting public comment on increasing both entrance fees and camping fees beginning January 1, 2018.
Photos courtesy of Empire Area Museum By Linda Alice Dewey Sun contributor Part of our series on prominent but derelict or vacant buildings in our region. If you were around this area in the late 1960s, ’70s or ’80s, you might remember the old Ace hardware store located at the end of Front Street, adjacent […]
An Empire real estate development firm has cleared the first hurdle in developing a vacant three-acre strip of properties at the end of Lake Street. The complex would include the old Salisbury/Ace hardware store, the white house just south of it, the livery barn on the corner of Lake and Niagara, a house across Niagara Street to the north, and a quarter mile strip of land along South Bar Lake.
Empire holds its 40th Anchor Day Festival on Saturday, July 15, with a parade, a street dance, a fun run, a quilt show, a movie and a chicken dinner.