Eneliko Smith linked to Remo Polselli through business ties, but Smith maintains, “I’m nobody’s front man” By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor Eneliko “Liko” Sean Smith still plans to acquire Sugar Loaf resort this spring from Kate Wickstrom, and open the long shuttered ski hills this coming winter, though he might not ink the deal by […]
Catch the Beach Bards poetry and storytelling troupe perform at Art’s Tavern in Glen Arbor, Michigan, on the evening of Friday, April 23 … and please enjoy this feature on the Beach Bards from our archives: Words of the Ancestors Roll Down the Tracks Ninth year of Beach Bards Mankind’s civilizations come and go, their […]
From staff reports Rob Karner, a biology teacher at The Leelanau School, a private boarding school located north of Glen Arbor, won the Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council’s (NMEAC) award for Environmentalist of the Year in education on Friday, April 16. The Glen Arbor resident is also a watershed biologist with the Glen Lake Association. […]
By Sudsy Cheroot Sun sports guru “For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.” For many years, legendary Detroit Tigers radio announcer Ernie Harwell used […]
Eneliko “Sean” Smith, Sugar Loaf resort’s enigmatic, aspiring new owner By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor There’s a new guy in town, and he’s definitely not from around here. All this month the local papers, TV stations, and gossip have focused on Eneliko Sean Smith, the enigmatic 39-year-old boxer turned businessman who recently moved to northern […]
Eneliko “Sean” Smith, Sugar Loaf resort’s enigmatic, aspiring new owner Glen Arbor Sun: It’s been interesting to see how the local papers have reacted to an outsider coming in and hopefully acquiring Sugar Loaf. What do you think about the local media’s reaction to you so far? Liko Smith: Sugar Loaf is a very emotional […]
By Keith Schneider Founding Director, Michigan Land Use Institute This eulogy for preservationist hero Steward Udall, who passed away in March, is borrowed from Keith Schneider’s environmental blog, ModeShift.org. Photo by J. Carl Ganter I met Stewart Udall, and his wife Lee, in 1988 when I was a national correspondent for the New York Times […]
From staff reports Tom Van Zoeren has published a new booklet about the Port Oneida Rural Historic District in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore north of Glen Arbor, titled The Thoreson Farm and Its Neighbors, which, Tom says “is based mainly on oral history recordings with Leonard Thoreson, and on his photo collection.” The […]
Art’s Tavern served as the starting and ending points for the seventh annual St. Patty’s Day Pub Crawl on Saturday, March 13. The happy crowd of Lepricons, four-leaf clover hunters, and Guinness lovers moved from downtown Glen Arbor to The Homestead resort, then back to Boonedocks and the Western Avenue Grill before returning to the […]
Guys don’t light candles at home to be romantic, they do it because they’re farting. —— What would pornography for women be like? Two hours of cuddling, and then the guy proposes to her afterwards! —— She’s on a motherhood trip now. “Why don’t we give kids names that they can use in the real […]