Glen Lake Community Library 2009 Home Tour The Friends of the Library will hold their biennial Home Tour on Thursday, July 23 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets cost $15.00 and are NOT sold at the homes. Tickets, which are limited, may only be purchased in advance from: Friends of the Library Board members, […]

Last survivor of Chamber’s founders, John Dorsey, passed away last winter By Linda Peppler Sun contributor Six decades ago, in March of 1949, the Glen Lake Resort & Business Bureau was established to promote civic, social, cultural and business interests in the Glen Lakes area. Once sleepy Glen Arbor grew as a tourist destination in […]

By Codi Yeager Sun contributor Margaret Hodge has found her dream job. “I get to hang out with men all day long and then not have to clean or cook for them when I go home at night!” jokes the owner of Anchor Hardware, a small, jack-of-all trades store on M-22, just north of the […]

MSN.com’s travel site named our own Empire Asparagus Festival among “The World’s Weirdest Festivals”. “The Empire Asparagus Festival in Empire, Mich., is dedicated entirely to this perennial vegetable. Michigan is one of the top asparagus producers in the U.S., but since Empire is known more for its artsy side than its agricultural one, the festival […]

The Narrows Bridge over the Glen Lakes is being rebuilt this summer, so take a detour on M-109 west of Little Glen Lake (and past the Dune Climb) or on CR 675 east of Big Glen Lake (and over Inspiration Point) to reach Glen Arbor. But don’t forget about the important businesses, galleries, movie rental […]

2025 Season The Glen Arbor Sun will publish 17 issues in 2025—once each month during the winter, spring and fall, and bi-weekly between May and September. Here are the publication dates: January 16, February 13, March 13, April 10, May 8, May 22, June 5, June 19, July 3, July 17, July 31, August 14, […]

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We acknowledge the waters and lands of this county called Leelanau—a name invented by a non-native—are located on the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary lands of the Anishinaabeg -the Three Fires Confederacy of the Ojibwe, Ottawa, and Potawatomi peoples. Since time immemorial, the Anishinaabeg have lived, worked, honored, and respected these lands. Leelanau County Events August […]