By Tim Sutherland Sun sports writer One of the great venues to hit the scene in the last 15-20 years has been the sports bar. A chance to meet friends, enjoy good food and drinks and watch the big game is a dynamite combination for any sports fan. Add to that live entertainment, 11 big […]
Once again the Manitou Music Festival and the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore have teamed up to present the Dune Climb Concert at 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 13. This year will feature two cellos serenading the Dunes: Crispin Campbell and Eugene Friesen. The landmark event is free. Photo by Andy McFarlane
“I read the letter from Rhonda Reems in the June 12 issue of the Glen Arbor Sun regarding Mike and Becky Sutherland’s putt-putt golf course. I’d like Ms. Reems to know that it is really a wonderful place. I’ve never played any kind of golf and didn’t think I would ever want to. But this […]
Press release Several area artists are lending their talents to help provide hope and opportunity to impoverished children of families who work and live at the Guatemala City garbage dump. Last April, at the invitation of Great Lakes Friends of Safe Passage, local artists visited a virtual dump constructed at Higher Grounds Trading Company in […]
By Jody Arendale Sun contributor Pssst…how’d you like to pick up a perfectly good, slightly used 40-gallon water heater, on the cheap? Or maybe a gas furnace for your drafty old pole barn? Ever dream of having a vintage cast iron claw foot bathtub but couldn’t afford to buy one? What about old windows for […]
By Bill Dungjen Sun contributor Twenty years ago, Patrick and Mary Kay Niemisto invited around 15 of their musician friends to their house on Baatz Road in southern Leelanau County to share music and a potluck supper and friendship over the Memorial Day weekend. Since then, they have seen their children grow up, they have […]
On a day like this, it seems you can almost reach up and touch the clouds from the top of the dunes near Glen Haven. See more of Jeff Rabidoux’s photos at www.lifeonthe45th.com or look for them in future issues of the Glen Arbor Sun. Scroll down for the following stories in our June 12 […]
By Joanne Bender Sun Contributor Barbara Siepker, owner of Glen Arbor’s rustic and relaxing Cottage Book Shop on Lake Street, has transformed herself from a psychiatric social worker to a best-selling author. Her book, Historic Cottages of Glen Lake, (Leelanau Press, 2008), is earning accolades and acclaim for the previously unwritten local resort era history […]
Don’t miss the second-annual Girls Night Out event at the Glen Arbor Township Hall on Thursday, June 19, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Last year, approximately 200 women shopped for a great mix of food, chocolate and wine, clothes, jewelry, accessories and books, and services including insurance, dental, spa and photography. Other upcoming local events […]
By F. Josephine Arrowood Sun contributor Fans of the 1971 cult classic Harold and Maude may be thrilled to discover that a vigorous, free-thinking, octogenarian social activist has recently made her home in Empire. Yet Marian Gyr is much more interesting and engaged than a hippie-era movie character. The lively educator, environmentalist and matriarch says, […]