A memorable meal at North

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By Norm Wheeler Sun editor You smell the Seafood Stew just inside the door, and the hunger you brought now grips you in earnest. The conversations from the various rooms, the clinking of glasses, the whooshing of waiters in and out of the adjacent kitchen doors, and tonight’s hostess Janice Fink, all welcome you into […]

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Ecotourism, a buzz word with many paths

By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor The word “ecotourism” is gaining popularity in the Glen Arbor region. Ecological tourism is defined in Martha Honey’s book Ecotourism and Sustainable Development: Who Owns Paradise? (Washington DC: Island Press, 2008) as “travel to fragile, pristine and usually protected areas that strives to be low-impact and (often) small scale. It […]

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Healing energy offered at Evolve

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By Pat Stinson Sun contributor A creative person, Cindy Kochis (pronounced Kō-shĭs) finds many outlets for the artistic energy that flows through her. She is close to finishing her first novel. She freelance writes and helps businesses and organizations promote themselves through her company, Creative Counsel, Inc. She sells journals and notepads decorated with photographs […]

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“Everyday Art” at North Gallery

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By F. Josephine Arrowood Sun contributor With its bright red carriage doors beckoning a warm welcome, Lake Street Studios in Glen Arbor — a former three-stall mechanics’ garage — houses several stellar art galleries, each with its distinctive focus on beautifully crafted and aesthetically pleasing goods. Step through the left-hand doors into North Gallery, and […]

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Art and camaraderie in Glen Arbor

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By Nadine Gilmer Sun contributor Just west of the Good Harbor Grill and Boone Docks, on the Lake Michigan side of M-109 in Glen Arbor, are several art galleries run by four women who have developed an interesting camaraderie over the years. They’ve even gone so far as to call themselves sisters. They are Ruth […]

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Concierge Up North serves less frantic vacations

By Pat Stinson Sun contributor Everyone’s idea of the perfect vacation differs, but most of us would appreciate having some help with our travel plans, whether we journey 500 miles or 5,000. And all of us would love an insider’s scoop on our destinations: sights to see, things to do and amenities or services about […]

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Crooning karaoke at the Western Avenue Grill

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By Kate McCarty Sun contributor It’s a sleepy Friday night in Glen Arbor. Tourists have left the beaches and they’ve finished their dinners. The sun has set behind the Manitou Islands. Despite the quiet that’s fallen over the town, something is brewing at the Western Avenue Grill. Bar manager Bill Skolnik stands behind a karaoke […]

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Homestead’s “New Leaf” offers health and fitness

By Pat Stinson Sun contributor New Leaf, The Homestead’s state-of-the-art health and fitness center for resort guests and the public, opened in June and hosted a reception and tour recently for fitness enthusiasts and others contemplating change. The 4,000 square-foot center was built to attain the highest possible LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) […]

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Pete Edwards’ Nordic Walking Poles help wounded war heroes walk again

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By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor Wounded Iraq war veteran and Traverse City resident Michelle Rudzitis drove to Mount Adams in Washington state earlier this year for three days of solo hiking, camping and collecting her thoughts— two and a half years after a roadside bomb in Baghdad severed her left leg and nearly killed her. […]

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Let’s Go Eat … Where??

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By Norm Wheeler Sun editor You are on vacation, so don’t cook! There are plenty of choices for dining out right here in this corner of Leelanau County, from breakfast to late-night munchies, from take out to slow food, from American to French to Italian, from quick and easy to refined and elegant. Most of […]

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