From staff reports Sleeping Bear Gallery in Empire invites you to come watch and meet Plein Air artist Richard Onica as he paints oils on a canvas. The event will be held on Friday, June 26, from 4-7 p.m. The gallery is located at 10085 West Front St in Empire. For more information, call 231-326-2278 […]
From staff reports This coming Sunday, June 28, from 4-6 p.m. the Empire Area Community Emergency Funds monthly concert series will be held at The Manor on Glen Lake with a featured performance by “Jazz North” As always these fine musicians and performers are volunteering to donate their time and talent to support the efforts […]
The Glen Arbor Women’s Club is pleased to award scholarships to five outstanding young women graduating from Glen Lake High School. The scholarships were awarded on the basis of academics, community involvement, and overall achievement. The scholarships were presented by Carol Becker, representing the Women’s Club, at the Senior Awards Ceremony at Glen Lake High School on May 21.
Grand Ledge artist Michael Lowery makes a “Return To Leelanau” with a new body of watercolor paintings on June 26 at Center Gallery, which is located at 6023 S. Lake Street in Glen Arbor. An artist’s reception is scheduled from 6-8 p.m.
The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore — with its 64 miles of freshwater shoreline; its massive, eponymous dunes; its forested hills; its ridge and swale wetlands; its inland lakes where the only domestic architecture might be a beaver lodge — is an artist magnet.
Glen Arbor’s annual Tennis Tournament is scheduled for June 26-28. All matches are doubles and are played at the downtown courts in Glen Arbor or at the Leelanau School.
Jeff Hessler began lobbying way back in 1976 for a skatepark in Frankfort. The co-owner of Betsie Bay Furniture, next to Stormcloud Brewery, has skated these streets since he was 14 years old. “I’ve been skating since the polyurethane wheel came out,” he says. Nearly 40 years later, he and his 14-year-old daughter Annie may soon get their wish.
The public is invited to attend the official ribbon cutting for the newest section of the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail from Fisher Road, near Glen Arbor, to Port Oneida Road, on June 17 at 11 a.m. at the Olsen Farm in Port Oneida, 3164 W Harbor Highway (M-22).
Thinking of taking your kayak or canoe from Sleeping Bear Point to South Manitou Island? Think again. The air temperature may reach a balmy 80 degrees, and the surface water temperature near the beach is slowly approaching swimmable levels. But the open water temperature out in the Manitou Passage never reaches the 60s. That’s frigid. And it can kill you.
Aral was a logging settlement with a colorful history, largely because it witnessed one of the area’s few pioneer shootouts. Aral is located four miles south of Empire at the end of Esch Road, where Otter Creek empties into Lake Michigan. Today it’s one of the most popular swimming beaches in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, and offers few signs of its colorful past, when Aral was a thriving wooding town.