By Jane Greiner Sun contributor They had no idea when they started it how popular the weekly Gallery Talk series would become, but Marion and Dick DeVinney are glad they followed their hunch and began the new program at their gallery in Glen Arbor. Almost immediately the “talks” morphed into art demonstrations with featured artists […]
By Ashlea Turner Sun staff writer Local artwork. Organic pet food and catnip. Free-trade and organic coffee. Fresh, hormone-free milk in returnable glass bottles. Scrumptious pastries. Great service. It’s usually difficult to discover these attributes together under the same roof. Luckily for the village of Empire, Moon Dog provides all of these and more to […]
The Glen Arbor Athletic Club will soon open its doors to locals who want to trim down or beef up in the same historic two-room school house where students were once asked to listen up and jot down notes. Two couples, Paul and Marcia Walters and Terry and Linda Gretzema, who have summered here over the years and now consider themselves permanent locals, stumbled on the idea of opening an athletic club when they realized they wanted to stay active, somehow, during their golden retirement years up north. And what better way to keep the flabs at bay than by working those abs every morning.
By Norm Wheeler Sun staff writer “There’s everybody’s own version of events, and then there’s what happened. All the loose ends you find in between are what make it interesting.” Rob Rader
By Jane Greiner Sun staff writer The timber framing for the supporting walls of the new building at Cherry Republic went up in just one day. Robert Foulkes and his crew of six, from White Oak Timber Framers of Suttons Bay assembled, hoisted, braced, pushed and pounded the tree-sized components into place. “Handy Randy” Weirich, […]
By Sue Woodward and Nadine Nienhuis Sun contributors The 45th parallel, an imaginary line that circles the globe halfway between the equator and the North Pole, passes through Suttons Bay, Old Mission Lighthouse, Yellowstone Park’s Mammoth Hot Springs, Bordeaux, Venice and San Francisco. Some think there is a unique, creative force in the surrounding areas […]
By Jane Greiner Sun staff writer Empire’s reclusive Roen brothers never dreamed that one day their three-man bachelor household would be replaced by a mother-daughter duo that would turn their farm into an old fashioned bed and breakfast. Holly Decker never dreamed it either. Not until it occurred to her while enjoying a stay in […]
By Jacob R. Wheeler Sun Editor Nancy Wright and Janet Niewold are not finished. In fact, they have just begun another project that will keep their names embedded in the local Who’s Who list. The jovial ladies who ran Le Bear Restaurant on beautiful Sleeping Bear Bay for 12 years decided not to slip off […]
By Norm Wheeler Sun editor Dottie and Bill Thompson are starting a new chapter – again. Cousin Gene and his wife Joan Thompson have taken over TnT Video, the video rental shop, and the White Gull Inn is closing. No more B&B for B&D. However, “Grandpa’s Place,” (as Bill calls it), the small house behind […]