Soutas-Little, the incumbent, is challenged by Republican Dale Schaub in District 5, which represents Leland and Centerville Townships.
Rentenbach, the incumbent, is challenged by Republican Casey Noonan in District 6, which represents Glen Arbor, Empire and Cleveland Townships
Incumbent Lautner (Republican) is challenged by O’Neill (Democrat) in District 7, which represents Kasson and Solon Townships From staff reports Glen Arbor Sun: Please name three top goals you’d like to accomplish as County Commissioner Melinda Lautner: Top three goals are: 1) See to the completion of the new 9-1-1 dispatch and radio system for […]
In advance of the Nov. 8 general election, the Glen Arbor Sun reached out to interview candidates for Leelanau’s seven County Commission seats (both incumbents and challengers) and two candidates vying to replace John Soderholm as Glen Arbor Township Supervisor. At least one candidate for each County Commission seat responded to our interview request, as did both candidates for Township Supervisor — Bob Hawley and Peter Van Nort.
Bob Hawley (Republican) and Peter Van Nort (Independent) are running for Glen Arbor Township Supervisor. We conducted the following Q&A with the candidates.
How many different kinds of plants, animals, and other organisms live at Sleeping Bear Dunes? To help answer that question, nearly 250 scientists, naturalists, students, and other nature lovers joined forces Sept. 16-17 for the Blitz the Bear bioblitz.
A studio artist (that would be me) walks into a Traverse City Goodwill store looking for used clothing to repurpose (I cut up T-shirts into a knittable yarn). And as I stand there, rifling through the 25-foot long floor rack full of T-shirts, I think, and not for the first time, “There are enough T-shirts in this one store that no one needs to make or buy a new T-shirt ever again.” It seemed as though there were thousands.
Debbie Ellis had no idea her life was about to change until a student at Glen Lake School, where she works in the kitchen, called out to her as he went through the lunch line this past May.
Five rental homes may be leveled as a result of a massive business deal between the Noonan family and Rieth-Riley Construction, Inc., headquartered in Goshen, Indiana. Rieth-Riley’s services include road and bridge construction as well as earthwork and building site preparation. The deal, which closed on July 1, centers around the sale of Kasson Sand and Gravel, which began operation under Peninsula Asphalt Company of Traverse City in 1959. In 1982, it was sold to Robert Noonan and has been family operated ever since.
Photo by Anne-Marie Oomen: Kayakers protest the Mackinac Straits pipeline on Labor Day weekend. Canadian company that owns Mackinac Straits oil pipeline responds to “shut down Line 5” campaign By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor The Canadian oil company that owns the Mackinac Straits pipelines — and was responsible for the 2010 Kalamazoo River spill — […]