Local activist group makes waves

By Pat Stinson Sun contributor Fueled by coffee and a strong desire for change, four area women challenged themselves last summer to stop complaining about the direction our country is headed and start taking action. “I was inspired by a 90-year-old,” says Celeste Crouch, a Glen Arbor resident and one of the “magic four” who […]

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Will the Lake Street boat ramp move to Glen Haven?

By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor High summer means a bottleneck of car and pedestrian traffic in downtown Glen Arbor, and nowhere is the problem more acute than at the north end of Lake Street, where the public boat ramp, Le Bear Resort and sunset watchers all compete for breathing space. For years now the Glen […]

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Is the Rescue found?

From staff reports State police divers searching for the body of a man who drowned in Big Glen Lake last summer may have instead solved one of the area’s great mysteries — the location of Ralph Dorsey’s passenger steamboat, Rescue, which he sank intentionally in 1914.

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Glen Arbor firefighters climb high with new ladder truck

By Jane Greiner Sun contributor Firefighters at the Glen Arbor Township Fire Department are proud of their new state-of the-art ladder truck, a Pierce Quint, number Q331. They were eager to bring it out and set it up for photographs and a demonstration of the incredibly long ladder. Firefighter, EMT Andrew Anthony stabilized the 70,000-pound […]

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Bears in Glen Haven!

By Jane Greiner Sun contributor There is hard evidence that a bear recently walked across the beach not far from the Cannery in Glen Haven. Two visitors came upon the tracks and thinking they were perhaps cougar prints, the man made plaster casts of the imprints. He took them to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National […]

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National Lakeshore is our ‘Land of Lakes’

By Jane Greiner Sun contributor It is amazing that there are 21 lakes within the boundaries of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. You can live here for years and not know about some of these small lakes hidden in the woods. Others you drive by regularly without ever stopping to count their numbers. I talked […]

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Invisible in our midst: Hispanics and migrant workers in northern Michigan

By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor They live amongst us. They drive on the same country roads. They enjoy the same sunsets. And they still play an integral role in harvesting the crops that we not merely eat, but identify with spring, summer and fall in northern Michigan. The Hispanic and Latino workers indispensable to our […]

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What makes Empire unique?

By Helen Westie Sun contributor What makes Empire a unique and interesting community? When confronted with this question, the town’s residents have always been vociferous in expressing their ideas. The two unique summer celebrations come to mind immediately: the Asparagus Festival the weekend before Memorial Day in May and the Anchor Day the third weekend […]

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Letter to the Editor

The feelings of puzzlement and disgust I felt as a result of reading Mr. Arens’ letter to the August 11 edition of the Glen Arbor Sun, are so similar to the feelings I have towards much that’s current in American “culture”, I have decided to answer it that I might personally find a way to […]

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County residents avoid tossing tons of E-waste into landfill

By Dianne Navarro Sun contributor “This monitor still works. We’re just updating our computer and we can’t even give this thing away. No one wants it” was a common theme voiced at Leelanau County’s Electronic Recycling Collection event, which took place on August 20 at Glen Lake High School. Thanks to Leelanau County and the […]

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