Sugar Loaf’s new layout?

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From staff reports Liko Smith, Sugar Loaf resort’s aspiring new owner, plans to make the following changes to the resort’s ski hill once he completes the acquisition (according to an email he sent last night to local media … Please click on the photo to the right to see an enlarged image): • Move ski […]

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As acquisition date nears, hurdles loom for Sugar Loaf resort

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Eneliko Smith linked to Remo Polselli through business ties, but Smith maintains, “I’m nobody’s front man” By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor Eneliko “Liko” Sean Smith still plans to acquire Sugar Loaf resort this spring from Kate Wickstrom, and open the long shuttered ski hills this coming winter, though he might not ink the deal by […]

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Karner named Environmentalist of the Year

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From staff reports Rob Karner, a biology teacher at The Leelanau School, a private boarding school located north of Glen Arbor, won the Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council’s (NMEAC) award for Environmentalist of the Year in education on Friday, April 16. The Glen Arbor resident is also a watershed biologist with the Glen Lake Association. […]

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Going Irish at Art’s

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Art’s Tavern served as the starting and ending points for the seventh annual St. Patty’s Day Pub Crawl on Saturday, March 13. The happy crowd of Lepricons, four-leaf clover hunters, and Guinness lovers moved from downtown Glen Arbor to The Homestead resort, then back to Boonedocks and the Western Avenue Grill before returning to the […]

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Comedy Fest: Whitney Cummings love cherries

Guys don’t light candles at home to be romantic, they do it because they’re farting. —— What would pornography for women be like? Two hours of cuddling, and then the guy proposes to her afterwards! —— She’s on a motherhood trip now. “Why don’t we give kids names that they can use in the real […]

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Traverse City Comedy Festival: Jeff Garlin, opening night

Jeff Garlin’s idols February 20, 2010 – 12:41 am Second funniest person Jeff Garlin knows is Conan O’Brien, his former roommate. The funniest is Amy Sedaris Whose the biggest (jerk **) in Hollywood? Warren Sapp, the NFL player recently arrested. A woman in the crowd asks if Jeff Garlin also holds hatred for the singer […]

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Traverse City Comedy Festival: Teenager of the Year

Comedy for kids Wow, three cheers for morbidity. Teenager of the Year agreed to tell jokes on stage that were submitted by dying kids in Chicago hospitals on behalf of the Make A Wish foundation …. and record the performance live for them ….. and we’re laughing at the jokes “because the kids are dying […]

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Chalup family needs your help

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From staff reports The Empire community lost a dear friend and familiar face on Jan. 21 with the passing of Marykate Chalup, who was 52 years old. Chalup worked at both Deering’s Market and at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (the local branch of the National Park Service). Devoted and loving parents of four […]

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Local musicians swap gear in Cedar

By Pat Stinson Sun contributor Cedar resident and musician Bill Dungjen was looking for other music makers who wanted to clear their homes and garages of unused sound and music gear. So on Sunday. Jan. 17, the WNMC Roundup radio show host and coordinator of Open Mic Thursdays at The Hay-loft Inn on M-72 (and […]

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Glen Arbor holds WinterFest

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Glen Arbor will heat up (well, kind of) for WinterFest 2010, to be held on Saturday, Feb. 13. A Perch Fishing Contest is scheduled for 7 a.m. until 1 p.m. And don’t miss the Chili Cook-off on the deck at Boone Docks, from noon until the chili is gone … and winter hibernation resumes. The […]

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