Dunegrass Festival ’06 tops the charts

By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor This region has hosted some pretty bitchin’ musical acts over the years, but never have we seen a lineup this juicy: Electric Hot Tuna, Song of the Lakes, the Neptune Quartet, Steppin’ In It, Seth Bernard & Daisy May and wait, listen to this, Greg Brown and Iris Dement! Do […]

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Lake Street Studios bring back performance with Arts Collage

By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor The action is returning to the Lake Street Studios. On Saturday, July 29, the Studios, across from Cherry Republic on Glen Arbor’s Lake Street, will hold their first ever Arts Collage, featuring visual arts, wine tasting, readings, live music, multimedia entertainment and even a “performance philosopher.” The Studios’ Center Gallery […]

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Friends of Library hold popular annual book sale

By Jane Greiner Sun contributor Thousands of good used books will be offered for sale at the popular Friends of the Glen Lake Community Library book sale on August 3-5. Each year crowds of book lovers flock to the Glen Arbor Town Hall to look over the tables of books and pick out armloads of […]

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Civil War units highlight Port Oneida Fair

Press release The cavalry is coming. So is the heavy artillery, the infantry, and the sharpshooters. Civil War re-enactors will highlight this year’s Port Oneida Fair. On Friday August 4 and Saturday August 5 the Port Oneida Rural Historic District of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will host the fifth annual Port Oneida Fair. […]

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The Greencards, an American Composer, Prairie Winds open festival

From staff reports The Manitou Music Festival, under the auspices of the Glen Arbor Art Association, will kick off its 2006 season with the traditional Dune Climb Concert in collaboration with the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on Sunday, July 16, at 7 p.m. The headlining act this year is The Greencards, a “new grass” […]

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Northern Michiganders give Guatemalan children a Safe Passage

By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor GUATEMALA CITY — The children’s Christmas pageant at Safe Passage, near the dump in this gritty urban hell, resembled similar pageants all across the United States last December. Kids dressed up in costumes made of brown crate paper or wings made out of yarn string, and danced in front of […]

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Beth Bricker, Lake Street Studios diversify the art

By Corin Blust Sun contributor If you’ve ever stepped into the Lake Street Studios, across the street from Cherry Republic in Glen Arbor, chances are you’ve spoken with Beth Bricker, part of a family team that runs the Forest Gallery on the building’s south side. “I talk to everybody, way too much,” says Bricker. “I […]

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Library plans summer activities for kids

By Jane Greiner Sun contributor The Glen Lake Library in Empire aims to help make reading a year-round activity for area children. Library director David Diller said that the library has two programs starting this month which are designed to encourage kids to read as a part of their summer activities. “So much is going […]

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Movies that you need to see

By Josh Burrows Sun contributor Dwight D. Eisenhower was heard to remark: “God help this country when somebody sits at this desk that doesn’t know as much about the military as I do.” As the man who masterminded the single most massive invasion in history, that sets a pretty high bar for the White House’s […]

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National Park to spruce up Port Oneida

By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor At long last, the check is on its way. After waiting for over a decade the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (our local branch of the National Park Service) will finally get funds of $1.1 million from Washington to restore, rehabilitate and promote the Port Oneida rural historic district, located […]

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