Hoop dreams

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From staff reports The Glen Arbor Township Hall’s original basketball backboards have been retired. The Gordon family of Northwood Drive paid for new, retractable backboards and hoops to be installed in advance of their daughter’s town hall wedding ceremony and reception on Jan. 16. Retired Hall of Fame Coach Don Miller and Cherry Republic czar […]

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Economic recession? Not necessarily

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Thanks to Pure Michigan, Bed & Breakfast and others report healthy summers By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor Chat with guests at the Glen Arbor Bed & Breakfast on a given weekend, and you’ll take a virtual cross-country tour, and perhaps even a global one. Nearly half of those staying at the popular B&B in the […]

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“Don’t pave Sleeping Bear!”

From Staff Reports A group of citizens in the Glen Arbor, Michigan, area has recently formed under the banner of “Preserve the Forest” to oppose the asphalt paving of Segment 5, of the Leelanau Heritage Scenic Heritage Route Trailway, a portion of the 27 mile long, multi-use trail, planned for Leelanau and Benzie Counties. According […]

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Dunegrass lives! Popular music festival rises from the ashes for 17th year

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By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor The Sleeping Bear Dunegrass Music Festival is back, albeit in a new location on the Empire Eagles’ M-72 property six miles east of Empire. Come join the revelry from Friday, July 31-Sunday, Aug. 2, and enjoy excellent blues, roots, rock, reggae, bluegrass, progressive, funk and contemporary acoustic music playing on […]

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Wind turbines in Leelanau County?

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Local opinions, for and against, passionate and protective, are blowin’ in the wind By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor Ever since the Michigan Wind Energy Resource Zone Board (WERZ) released a report on June 2 that named Leelanau County as the second best location statewide for industrial-scale windmill farms, local citizens have vociferously debated this prospective […]

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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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Operation Spawning Fish

From staff reports The Glen Lake Association aims to improve fishing in the Glen Lakes this year. The key to improving Glen Lake’s natural warm water fish populations, such as perch, pike, and bass, is a good spawning habitat, writes Rob Karner, project manager for the Association and biologist and teacher at the Leelanau School. […]

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Park stimulus means jobs

By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor Tom Ulrich, Deputy Superintendent of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (the local branch of the National Park Service), says that the $2.2 million the Lakeshore will receive under the Obama administration’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — or “stimulus package” — will result in immediate local jobs, and the […]

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In search of the sleeping bear

By Pat Stinson Sun contributor In January, as snowshoe hares bound across Thoreson Road and minks skirt a frozen wetland at the foot of Alligator Hill, northern Michigan black bears snooze in their dens, tucked into secret places throughout the Upper (U.P.) and northern Lower Peninsulas. During this month, one of nature’s most intriguing phenomena […]

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Park signs General Management Plan

From staff reports Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (the local branch of the National Park Service) Superintendent Dusty Schultz signed the Park’s new General Management Plan (GMP) on Jan. 5 in a brief ceremony in the Lakeshore’s Visitor Center in Empire. Because the Lakeshore was signed into law in 1970 by President Richard Nixon, Schultz […]

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