Skimmin’ off the top

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Sleeping Bear Surf & Kayak in Empire holds its second annual Skimboard competition on Saturday, Aug. 1, at 1 p.m. at North Bar Lake. Registration costs $20, begins at 10 a.m. and includes a t-shirt. Be sure to have a National Park pass in your car. Last year’s event featured 40 competitors.

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Winter’s Coming!

… and with it, the Glen Arbor Sun will go into hibernation until mid-January, when we emerge from a turkey and eggnog-induced snooze to let you know how cold it is in the north woods, who around town has frost bite and who doesn’t, who is frolicking in the Florida Keys and who is stuck […]

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Breaking ground for the garden

Representatives of the Glen Arbor Township Board, the Design Committee, Glen Lake Garden Club, Glen Lake Chamber of Commerce, and the Garden Fundraising Committee participated in a ground breaking for the Glen Arbor Garden in early October. The Committee has raised over $75,000 and is still accepting donations and orders for bricks (see ad on […]

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Brushing the Dunes

Labor Day is still a couple weeks away, which means there’s still plenty of time to hike the sand dunes and leave your brush strokes in the sand. Rest assured, they’ll last at least until Mother Nature offers her next gust of wind. Photo by Jeff Rabidoux, www.lifeonthe45th.com Check out subsequent issues of the Glen […]

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Anchor Day

The annual Empire Anchor Day Parade, held the third weekend in July, commemorates the discovery of an anchor (now on display at the Empire beach) in July, 1977 by locals Doug Manning and Michelle Stryker. True to the village of Empire, the Anchor Day Parade always goes around town twice. Photo by Joanne Rettke View […]

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Skies and Dunes Collide

On a day like this, it seems you can almost reach up and touch the clouds from the top of the dunes near Glen Haven. See more of Jeff Rabidoux’s photos at www.lifeonthe45th.com or look for them in future issues of the Glen Arbor Sun. Scroll down for the following stories in our June 12 […]

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Fluffy snow, anyone?

Will this winter be a lion or a lamb? Old Man Winter suffered a New Year’s Eve hangover, and a thaw in early January prompted us to ask that question. But by mid-January the ground was white again (certainly to the delight of little ones skiing at The Homestead resort north of Glen Arbor). Last […]

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Firefighters practice their skills

Glen Arbor firefighters demonstrate methods used to extinguish a car fire during the annual Open House. Photo by Joanne Rettke The Glen Arbor Sun has concluded publishing for the summer, but we’ll print three “off-season” issues, on September 13, November 7 and January 17. Look for coverage of the Tour de Leelanau bike race, recently […]

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Music in the Dunes

The most popular event of the Manitou Music Festival is the free concert at the Dune Climb, which takes placec on Sunday, July 15 and this summer features the Traverse Symphony Orchestra Brass Ensemble. Photo courtesy of the Glen Arbor Art Association Stay tuned in future editions of the Glen Arbor Sun for previews of […]

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Life Springs Eternal

A few days after a wildland fire scorched several acres of Port Onedia prairie, a quenching rain fell. And from that springs new grass, and the field is once again alive! Photo by Mike Buhler Stay tuned in future issues of the Glen Arbor Sun for stories on Dr. Chuck Olson’s quest to save historic […]

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