By Nadine Gilmer Sun contributor Glen Lake School started its German exchange program 10 years ago when Carla Gipson set up a sister school relationship with the Anne Frank Gesamtschule in Havixbeck, in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany. Since then, students from our local school district and German students have traveled back and forth […]
From staff reports Both Glen Arbor and Empire now boast a locale where you can have a drink at the bar (even in January) without smelling like a Marlboro chimney the next morning. The Western Avenue Grill’s manager Bill Skolnik banned smoking in the whole bar on April 1. The few customers who complained about […]
Will this winter be a lion or a lamb? Old Man Winter suffered a New Year’s Eve hangover, and a thaw in early January prompted us to ask that question. But by mid-January the ground was white again (certainly to the delight of little ones skiing at The Homestead resort north of Glen Arbor). Last […]
By Pat Stinson Sun contributor For many, films are an important way to survive the long, cold winter. Northern Michigan is now considered a movie mecca, as folks from all over the world migrate here in the summer to attend the Traverse City Film Festival. In case you haven’t heard, Michael Moore and the TC […]
By Pat Stinson Sun contributor Much has been written in the last two months about the astounding six-week, $850,000 renovation and grand reopening of the 540-seat State Theatre in downtown Traverse City. Benzie County journalist Keith Schneider wrote a piece for the New York Times in December regarding the restoration of historic movie houses and […]
Michigan’s presidential primary election has come and gone. The Republican candidates who graced our state the past two weeks have moved onto South Carolina and Nevada after Michigan native Mitt Romney secured the victory he needed to stay in the race. But the major Democratic candidates were notably absent from the motor state, and ultimately […]
By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor Just because the fudgies have taken the tourism season south for the winter — or maybe because of it — doesn’t mean those of you sticking around for gritty January-April can’t enjoy good food at the area’s local dining establishments. Tim Barr reports that you’ll wait no more than 15-20 […]
By Nadine Gilmer Sun contributor It isn’t well known that Glen Lake Community Schools, nestled in the hills east of the Glen Lakes, made the list of the top 1,000 schools in the country. Even the secondary principal, Kevin Kelly says, “I didn’t even know about it until I was driving to work one day […]
By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor Cape Coast Castle, a haunting old slavery fort on the Atlantic shores of Ghana, was converted into a museum in the 1990s with help from the Smithsonian Institution and is now a tourist destination for, notably, African Americans to make their ancestral journey homeward and, quite possibly, back to the […]
From staff reports Rarely seen interior images of 50 cozy summer cottages and narratives provide a portrait of a special place and state of mind evoked by summer cottage living on beautiful Glen Lake. These cottages are viewed against the backdrop of early summer resort life in northern Michigan the first half of the twentieth […]