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Glen Lake Salon

Sherri Lynn Richard, a well-known stylist at Pavlova in Traverse City, purchased the Glen Lake (Beauty) Salon on Christmas Day last year following months of serious consideration. “I thought it was a dream come true but, initially, too expensive,” she says. Richard opened on New Year’s Eve and exalts at how well Glen Arbor has treated her. “Happy, sunny people,” she calls us. Richard has inherited many of former owner Marilyn’s clients, and also drawn her former patrons from Pavlova.

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Imagine That

Invited to a Baby Shower? Having a Baby? Want to pamper a new mother? Or maybe you have aspirations to be the best aunt or uncle, grandmother or grandfather around and need the perfect present? If you’re affected by the recent Baby Boom, look no further than Glen Arbor’s own “Imagine That. Eclectic Arts & Gifts” shop to help you fulfill your gift-giving needs. You’re sure to find something memorable, whimsical and personal.

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Dickinson Gallery

Frederick W. Dickinson began photographing in 1938 with large format cameras. He produced an extensive collection of 5″ x 7″ negatives featuring the Sleeping Bear sandunes, Glen Lake, Lake Michigan, the Sleeping Bear Dune Rides and Fishtown, Leland. He hand colored many of his photographs from Black and white prints. His photographs are considered collectable and hang in many homes around the area.

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Logging Miles and Building Schools in Ethiopia

On Sunday, Jan. 9, a team of American runners (most with northern Michigan roots) will leave the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on a 250-mile run. For 10 days they’ll jog through the ancient Rift Valley, sleep in highland villages and raise awareness with folks back home about rural poverty and lack of schools. Ten marathons in ten days! On Jan. 20 they’ll arrive in Yirgacheffe, one of the world’s great coffee-growing regions.

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Park wants community input on Port Oneida

The Port Oneida Rural Historic District — the picturesque tapestry of late 19th century farms, fields and rolling hills, just east of Glen Arbor on M-22 — will soon have a Cultural Landscape Management Plan, which Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (the local branch of the National Park Service, or NPS) will develop together with an Environmental Assessment.

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Snowshoeing in a winter wonderland

There is no better way to get outside and burn off some of those extra holiday calories than by joining a Park Ranger at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on a special holiday snowshoe hike on Sunday, Dec. 26 and/or Thursday, Dec. 30.

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Does Sugar Loaf have a new suitor?

Leelanau County’s “elephant in the room”, the long-shuttered Sugar Loaf ski resort, is back in the news following a quiet autumn season after the eccentric Las Vegas boxer-turned-businessman Liko Smith returned to the West Coast empty-handed. Resort owner Kate Wickstrom has been courted in recent months by at least two suitors, including David Skjaerlund, from Owosso, near Grand Rapids.

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Cottage Book Shop offers books to needy children

The Cottage Book Shop in Glen Arbor reports that, through a generous response to a local book drive facilitated by the Friends of the Glen Lake Community Library, new books will be given to over 240 needy local children this holiday season. But if you haven’t yet participated, the bookshop still has over 50 books — especially for preschoolers.

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Promoting community through video — Michigan Land Use Institute

The Michigan Land Use Institute works on bold solutions for Michigan’s people and places. This documentary calls on the people touched by the work the Institute does in the areas of thriving communities, local food & farming, energy & environment. The MLUI is a model for any community striving toward sustainability and a prosperous new economy.

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‘Cosmos’ shines brightly — Grand Traverse Insider

This fall marks the 30th anniversary of what has been called “the most widely watched PBS series in the world.” According to one of the show’s co-writers, almost a billion people worldwide have watched “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage” and gained an understanding of humanity’s place in the universe, and the paths taken by early astronomers to achieve that knowledge. For 26 of those years, Norm Wheeler has shown all 13 television episodes of “Cosmos” to his high school science students at The Leelanau School in Glen Arbor.

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