The Summer Singers, a community chorus sponsored by the Glen Arbor Art Association, invite all singers, young and old, to join them for a summer filled with making music.

The Bay Area Transportation Authority (BATA) is celebrating the fifth anniversary of its successful Bike-n-Ride program. BATA’s Bike-n-Ride service has been helping cyclists enjoy bike trails in Grand Traverse and Leelanau Counties for five years. This years’ service started Saturday, May 20 and runs through the summer and fall until October 22.

After nearly three years of strategic planning and library assessment activities, the Glen Lake Community Library (GLCL) is poised to begin an expansion and renovation project for its facility on Front Street in Empire.

The National Park Service (NPS) is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for shoreline stabilization at the South Manitou Island Lighthouse complex within Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act.

The League of Women Voters Leelanau County hosts a discussion on sharing Anishinaabe history and culture and putting indigenous values into practice on Wednesday, June 7, at noon at the Eyaawing Museum and Cultural Center (304 N. West Bay Shore Drive, M-22) north of Suttons Bay.

The Glen Arbor Art Association Readers’ Theater presents two plays by British playwright J.M. Barrie, June 2-3, at 7:30 p.m. at the Glen Lake Community Reformed Church, 4902 W. MacFarlane Road in Burdickville (east shore of the Glen Lakes).

You are invited to attend a free showing of Hometown Habitat — Stories of Bringing Nature Home at 7 p.m. on June 2 at the Empire Township Hall. Through the film’s profile of seven hometown habitat heroes, this film will help to answer these questions and more for you.

Join park rangers and skilled volunteers for Maritime Living History 101 throughout Glen Haven and the Maritime Museum on Saturday, May 27, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. All programs are free with a valid park pass.

On Saturday, May 27, Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear (PHSB) will hold a volunteer open house. Come learn about volunteer opportunities at PHSB between 1-5 p.m. at the Olsen Farm located at 3164 W. Harbor Hwy (M-22). Enjoy refreshments and their new exhibits about the historic community of Port Oneida.

Josephine Zara left acting as a young adult in New York and never looked back … until she moved to Glen Arbor nine years ago. When she was 12 in Detroit, her grandmother had hired the head of the speech and theater department at Wayne State University to give her speech lessons.