Local writer Kim Schneider penned this great piece for the Grand Rapids Press titled “Get a taste of Italy during cooking classes at The Homestead Resort” about Italian cooking classes that the local resort will offer during Saturdays in March.
You’ve read every book on the New York Times bestseller list, and gifts of holiday cash have left your book budget bulging. What to read next? When was the last time you grazed titles by local authors or books about local places and people?
The county’s best-kept winter sport secret isn’t skiing, snowboarding, or the best ice fishing hideaway: it’s the weekly Zumba classes at the Empire Township Hall. The 5:45-7 p.m.
It was the time of Winterfest, mid-February, in the village of Empire, when temperatures dipped well below the freezing mark. Snow had been shoveled to clear an area for ice-skating on South Bar Lake. Earlier in the day a fire truck had been there to spray a fine mist of water making a smooth surface.
The Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) continues its drama series, “Readers’ Theater” on Wednesday, Jan. 25 at 7 p.m., with two new Sherlock Holmes tales. “The Dead Adventuress” and “Murder in the Casbah,” adapted from stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, are co-directed by Harriett Mittelberger and Josephine Zara.
We barely had a white Christmas, and now the white was gone. What was happening? The jet stream was still parked up over Canada, blocking the cold air and extending our mild autumn into what is usually deep winter. How was it affecting the town’s businesses?
The fifth annual Roy Taghon Memorial Snowmobile Ride begins at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 22, at the Empire Airport and continues to the Maple City Fitness Center, behind Kerby’s Bar and Grill, at 172 W. Burdickville Road, Maple City.
A number of concerned locals have contacted Glen Lake School about the clear-cutting of aspen trees on the school-owned property on County Road 677 (Benzonia Trail), just north of the M-72 intersection — a 180-acre plot that the local public school typically calls the “Benzie Trail Property”.
This weekend, as Glen Arborites woke up to a snowy landscape, at long last, the fire department watered down the town’s new ice rink next to the tennis courts, and families brought out their ice skates and hockey pucks. Photos by Ed and Molly Connolly.
Now that the Gods have graced Leelanau County with snow, will the Sugar Loaf Mountain Club sign a deal with Kate Wickstrom, nominal owner of the long shuttered resort?