Summer Singers rehearsals start Tuesday, June 13
The Summer Singers, a community chorus sponsored by the Glen Arbor Art Association, invite all singers, young and old, to join them for a summer filled with making music.
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BATA celebrates five years of seasonal Bike-n-Ride service
The Bay Area Transportation Authority (BATA) is celebrating the fifth anniversary of its successful Bike-n-Ride program. BATA’s Bike-n-Ride service has been helping cyclists enjoy bike trails in Grand Traverse and Leelanau Counties for five years. This years’ service started Saturday, May 20 and runs through the summer and fall until October 22.
Love ‘em or hate ‘em spring veggies
If you’re like most people, you may pass by some of the offerings at the early farmers markets because you don’t care for them. At least you think you don’t care for them — because of how they look, your unfamiliarity with preparing them — or an unfortunate experience when first tasting them.
Empire Asparagus Festival 2017 Poetry Contest winners
Winners of this year’s Empire Asparagus Festival poetry contest.
Living legacy: Hank Bailey’s relationship to the land
About a block up the road from the old Cannery down on the shore in Glen Haven, Henry “Hank” Bailey gets out of a white Lexus in front of an abandoned, turn-of-the-century building that looks like it used to be a store. The whole village is deserted and sad. Glen Haven today is a bleak little shore-side ghost town in the bright sunlight. It’s the off-season, middle of May, the leaves on the trees are in delicate shades, fuzzy-looking and babyish in their newness.
Glen Lake Library plan expansion
After nearly three years of strategic planning and library assessment activities, the Glen Lake Community Library (GLCL) is poised to begin an expansion and renovation project for its facility on Front Street in Empire.
The most beautiful race in America
Northern Michigan’s largest brand puts on one of the best athletic events of the year. At 8 a.m. on Saturday, June 10, 900 racers will line up for the ninth annual M22 Challenge. The race includes a 2.5-mile run, 17-mile bicycle ride, and 2.5-mile paddle — making it the most unique “tri” event in northern Michigan.
Park seeks public comments on South Manitou Lighthouse shoreline stabilization
The National Park Service (NPS) is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for shoreline stabilization at the South Manitou Island Lighthouse complex within Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act.
The Once and Future Otter Creek
I am an aficionado of naturalists and field biologists. In a world preoccupied by all manner of human mischief and melodrama, the natural scientist’s wholehearted attention to the lifeways of other organisms, their primal human immersion in wild lives under open skies is a rare and wonderful thing. Their devotion yields knowledge of place, and realer than that it does not get.
Sharing Anishinaabe History and Culture
The League of Women Voters Leelanau County hosts a discussion on sharing Anishinaabe history and culture and putting indigenous values into practice on Wednesday, June 7, at noon at the Eyaawing Museum and Cultural Center (304 N. West Bay Shore Drive, M-22) north of Suttons Bay.