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Leelanau County on the Cheap: Fall Color Tour

by Ashlea Turner Sun staff writer This column is devoted to budget travelers who enjoy fresh food and quality time spent off the beaten path in Leelanau County. Contrary to popular belief, it is possible to visit Leelanau County and be a budget-minded traveler at the same time. Autumn is a favorite time of year […]

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Leelanau County on the Cheap: Focus, Empire

By Ashlea Turner Sun staff writer This is a new column devoted to budget travelers who enjoy fresh food and quality time spent off the beaten path in Leelanau County. While following this advice, the savvy traveler will spend less than $25 a day (including tax and tip) on food and have plenty of adventures. […]

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Observatory sees heavenly bodies

By Norm Wheeler Sun staff writer “What’s the most amazing thing you’ve ever seen with this telescope?” asks a visitor to the Leelanau School’s Lanphier Observatory. My stock answer is another question: “You mean in the sky, or on the beach?”

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Art Demos A Big Hit at Synchronicity Gallery

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 […]

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Moon Dog: earth-friendly goodness finds home in Empire.

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 […]

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Old School Hardware Building opens again as Glen Arbor Athletic Club

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.

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Hot Off the Leelanau Press

By Kristen Counts Sun staff writer

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History of The Sylvan Inn

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

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Timber Framing at new Cherry Republic building

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, […]

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SpiritWorks on the 45th parallel

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 […]

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