“Back in March we knew this would not be a normal year,” says Kathy Garthe about cherry farming during the Coronavirus pandemic. “Carol [Frederickson of Frederickson Farm] and I put our heads together. We started researching (what was available) in California … North Carolina had good information. The health departments in Cadillac, Benzie/Leelanau, and District 10 had very good materials for us to use, in English and Spanish, and instructions. And the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) did as well.”

In acknowledgement of the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, The Bay Theatre in Suttons Bay will host special showings of the documentary “RBG” and the bio-pic “On the Basis of Sex” on September 24 and October 1.

“It’s so beautiful, it almost brings tears to my eyes,” Glen Lake Community Library director David Diller overheard a former volunteer say recently when she toured the spacious, light and inviting new library, which reopened on September 8 on 10115 W. Front Street in downtown Empire.

Early on, when it became obvious that COVID-19 meant indoor programming at the Glen Arbor Arts Center (GAAC) could not go forward, the GAAC staff began brainstorming alternatives. That’s when the 6ft Apart Art series came to be. On Saturday, September 19, the Arts Center will offer the second 6ft Apart Art artist demonstrations in the driveway. All the exhibitors will work, and show a little of what they do and how they do it—from painting, to creating a collage, to techniques involved with building twig furniture.

State, federal and local dignitaries and other supporters of the proposed Cedar River Waterway & Park project are expected to attend Saturday’s noon rededication ceremony of Cedar’s refurbished and repainted red pedestrian/snowmobile bridge.

By Anne-Marie Oomen Inspired first by the raw photo, and then revised after seeing Linda Dewey’s beautiful painting of the photo, “On the Precipice”  One does not at first see the roots reaching into air and toward the river, tentacled fingers of maple undergrowth, exposed as muscle without its skin. One does not at first […]

Nearly half a million visitors recreated in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in August, setting a record for the month. Our National Lakeshore has welcomed nearly 1 million 422 thousand people through the proverbial turnstiles during the first eight months of 2020, putting us on track for Sleeping Bear’s busiest year ever.

Each time a singular noun popped up on the screen, Jalen Anderson moved and clicked the mouse to “whack” it. The eight-year-old, who lives in Peshawbestown and just started virtual third grade at Suttons Bay Public Schools, sat with her mother NaTasha to play the online whack-a-mole game, which was intended to help Jalen learn the difference between singular and plural words.

Cherry Republic will host a Drive-Up Job Fair on Wednesday, September 16, from 1-5 p.m. at its facility at 9896 W. Fisher St., Empire.

After a virtual spring and a mostly closed summer, Glen Arbor’s Leelanau School is welcoming students back for live, three-dimensional, hands-on learning.