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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore celebrates 51st anniversary with virtual events
NewsSleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is continuing to celebrate the park’s 50th anniversary with the theme of “51 is the new 50.” The Lakeshore and Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes are holding a virtual celebration on the park’s anniversary, Thursday, Oct. 21. This half-hour long Zoom event will begin at 7 p.m. and is free to the public. Links to this Zoom session can be found on the park’s website events calendar.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore seeks winter interns
NewsSleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is pleased to announce that they will be recruiting additional winter interns for the 2021/2022 season to assist with snowshoe field trips, weekend hikes, and virtual distance learning programs.
Conservancy hosts “Fall For Leelanau” activities, Oct. 18-24
NewsThe Leelanau Conservancy welcomes the second annual “Fall For Leelanau” weeklong schedule.
Empire hosts Village Design and Community Septic Systems conference
NewsThe Michigan Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism and Sam Marts Architecture and Planning have organized a one-day conference at the Empire Township Hall on Friday, Oct. 22, that will focus on village design and community septic systems.
An apple a day: Psenka family nourishes cidery dream
NewsIf “an apple a day keeps the doctor away,” just think what a whole orchard of the crisp autumn fruit can do for a person’s health. The adage certainly applied to the late Joe Psenka, whose daughter Lisa runs Leland’s Snowbird Inn and Jolli-Lodge, and son Chuck harvests cider apples, in hopes of carrying out their father’s dream.
Cherry Country Quilters unveils COVID memorial quilt
NewsA COVID memorial quilt made to honor those we’ve lost to the Coronavirus is finished and hanging on display at Cherry Country Quilters in Suttons Bay. The store, owned by Linda Mead, who died of COVID in late 2020, will close on Oct. 16. Cherry Country Quilters is currently holding a going-out-of-business sale.
Tiny homes offer small solutions to a large housing problem
NewsAs the housing market in northern Michigan continues to grow more competitive, some young entrepreneurs are finding creative solutions to their housing problems. Emily Grof is the architectural associate at the firm Design Smiths in Traverse City. She is one such creative problem solver who, with the help of Facebook Marketplace and Traverse City-based tiny-home builder Levi Meeuwenberg, has come up with a small solution for herself to the looming question of where to live.
A threatened and bullied Health Officer who ordered masks in schools speaks out
NewsOp-ed by Lisa Peacock, Health Officer for the Health Department of Northwest Michigan and the Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department.
Sale of Johnnie Salami’s Riverfront Pizza ends an era in Glen Arbor
NewsTim and Sue Nichols, owners of Riverfront Pizza (Johnnie Salami’s), reflect on their time at Glen Arbor’s iconic pizza joint on the Crystal River. The Nichols have sold Riverfront to Matt and Katy Wiesen, who own Crystal River Outfitters.
Glen Lake Chamber launches SHOPtober
NewsFor the second year in a row, the Glen Lake Chamber of Commerce encourages locals and visitors, alike, to “shop small and eat local” during SHOPtober.