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Historic Leelanau newspapers now available online
NewsKim Kelderhouse, executive director of the Leelanau Historical Society & Museum reports that historic Leelanau newspapers dating back more than 150 years are now accessible online at digmichnews.cmich.edu. This momentous accomplishment has been the dedicated effort of the Leelanau Historical Society since 2017.
Rising COVID cases prompt Glen Lake to close until Jan. 18
NewsGlen Lake Community Schools reported on Facebook this evening that it will close Thursday, Jan. 13, and Friday, Jan. 14, due to staffing shortages and sickness. The school closure is “due to excessive COVID illness or quarantine.” The positivity rate for COVID tests in Leelanau County remains at an astronomical 20.4%. The Health Department reported 35 COVID-positive cases on Tuesday, Jan. 11.
Bay Theatre in Suttons Bay to host monthly Bay Cinema Society
Business Feature, Upcoming EventThe Bay Theatre in Suttons Bay is launching The Bay Cinema Society, a monthly opportunity to watch and discuss classic, contemporary, foreign, and documentary films in a relaxed setting.
Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail, Palmer Woods report lots of snow
News“We have snow, and lots of it,” report the Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes. “Come out to Sleeping Bear Dunes while the skiing, snowshoeing, sledding, is at it’s best!” The grooming crew has been busy on the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail. The Trail has been groomed from Empire to Glen Arbor and North of Glen Arbor at Crystal View trailhead to the Lawr Farm (Wheeler Road). Conditions are really good.
Painting scenes of Leelanau: profile on Linda Alice Dewey
Local PersonalityEach week through 2022, the Glen Arbor Sun will feature a Q&A with a Leelanau County resident who shapes life in the peninsula through their business, their art, their service, their kindness, or otherwise. We lead off the series with Linda Alice Dewey, a painter, author, occasional contributor to this newspaper, and host of the “Glen Arbor” community group on Facebook. In this interview, we talked with Linda about her paintings, which are often inspired by photographs of Leelanau County scenes.
Sleeping Bear Dunes set another visitation record in 2021
NewsSleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore attracted 14,401 visitors in December, thus setting another annual visitation record. A total 1,722,955 people frequented our local National Park in 2021, topping the previous record, which was set in 2020, by just over 4,000.
Leelanau, Benzie Counties both break single-day COVID records
NewsThe Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department reported 51 new COVID-19 cases in Leelanau County on Tuesday, Jan. 4. In Benzie County, 31 new cases were reported. Both represent single-day records. The previous high was set on Nov. 12 when Leelanau recorded 37 and Benzie recorded 29 cases.
Grandfather Color wants the world to get well
NewsYou sit down with this wild-bearded, twinkly-eyed man at a table full of colored pencils and ornate coloring sheets that he created. You’re not sure why you’re here, except for feeling nostalgic for simpler times when you were just a worry-free kid. Soon, you’re pouring your heart out to Grandfather Color as you scribble, finding joy and solace through the creativity of color. Grandfather Color, otherwise known as Richard Stocker, is the facilitator behind myriad efforts to heal the world, person by person, by guiding them through their healing process using color. He is also the facilitator of the new “Get Well World” and “Color COVID Away campaigns that are just unrolling across Leelanau, Benzie and Grand Traverse counties.
Workforce Housing
NewsHere’s a roundup of the Glen Arbor Sun’s coverage of workforce and affordable housing issues in Leelanau County.
Glen Arbor Sun’s most read stories of 2021
NewsHappy New Year! Onward to 2022. But first, let’s take a look back at our top 10 most read online stories in the Glen Arbor Sun in 2021. The highlights were fires and good samaritans who sounded the alarm, preserving the Crystal River and an iconic Leelanau County barn, profiles on Leelanau daughter Martha Teichner and the Reay family who lost their son to mental illness, a lament for Oxford, Michigan, and our coverage of the Grist Mill on the Crystal River and the referendum on its zoning. Thanks for reading.