From staff reports Severe weather spotters play a pivotal role in helping the National Weather Service (NWS) identify and report dangerous storms that can rip through an area causing major damage. On August 2, 2015, Northern Michigan experienced thunderstorms with 100 mph winds that knocked down trees and damaged homes and businesses across the region. […]
By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor The Glen Arbor Sun reached out to several local writers who knew famed author Jim Harrison, who passed away on Saturday at age 78. Harrison lived for 35 years near Lake Leelanau before he moved to Livingston, Montana, and wintered in Arizona. Harrison’s best-selling novellas, novels and poetry about the […]
From staff reports On Wednesday, April 13, at 7 p.m. at the Northwest Michigan Horticultural Research Center on 6686 South Center Highway, a forum entitled “Seasonal Worker Housing For Michigan Agriculture” will be held. The presenters are Connee Canfield, farmer, migrant housing developer and site manager for SunRISE migrant worker apartments in Hartford, Mich.; Majed […]
Join rangers this month for the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore’s first ever InstaMeet!What is an InstaMeet?It’s a fun event where Instagram users (IGers) meet up, take photos, and get to know each other! However, you do not have to be an Instagram user to join in the fun!Anyone is welcome to participate in these ranger-led hikes.Participants are encouraged to bring a camera or a phone to capture images during the hike.
From staff reports On Wednesday, April 6, at noon at the Leelanau County Government Center the League of Women Voters Leelanau County will host a forum entitled “Early Childhood Intervention Improves Public Health”. Presenters will include Robin Hornkohl, Early Childhood Specialist at the Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District and Shen Chefalo, author of Garbage […]
From staff reports The next Empire Area Emergency Fund concert will feature the Turtlenecks (Michael Sullivan, Steve Carey, Norm Wheeler) with special guest vocalist Wes Ivankovich and take place at Art’s Tavern on Sunday, March 20, from 4-6 p.m.
The Leelanau Conservancy announced today that it has officially acquired the Palmer Woods Forest Reserve — 707 acres of contiguous hardwood forest that stretches over 2 miles north to south. Palmer Woods is located just over a mile from Big Glen Lake and just beyond the bluff that marks the western edge of Miller Hill.
An on-line application for the Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) juried exhibition New Views: A Storm of Art is available March 1. The application period runs through May 1 for the June 10-24 show at the GAAA, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. A prospectus describing the exhibition and its requirements is available here.
From staff reports The Glen Arbor Art Association announces the upcoming Readers’ Theater production of The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax, directed by Harriett Mittelberger. This is an adventure story but is also very funny. The main humor comes from the fact that no one would suspect Mrs. Pollifax of being a spy and not only is […]
Historian, award-winning author and part-time Northport resident James Tobin will visit the National Writers Series on Saturday, Feb. 6, to discuss his books about Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Wright brothers’ race to flight and World War II reporter Ernie Pyle.