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Manitou Music poster competition deadline approaches
NewsThe Glen Arbor Arts Center is accepting submissions of original paintings for its 2021 Manitou Music poster competition. The deadline for on-line submissions is September 17. This call-for-submissions is open to all current GAAC members. There is no application fee.
Work begins to build beach wall on Empire shoreline
NewsBeach “hardening” has begun, and a ramp has been formed to build a beach wall and rock riprap along a private Lake Michigan property on Storm Hill, south of Empire public beach and north of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore’s Empire Bluff.
Rebekah and Gerald TenBrink uplift local teenagers
NewsRebekah and Gerald TenBrink are the kind of neighbors that anyone in Leelanau County would be proud to know. This young couple not only talk about community, they also live it on a daily basis—and make it seem fun into the bargain. To spend time with them is to feel uplifted and hopeful, particularly in these troubling times of social unrest and the coronavirus pandemic.
Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department Offers Drive Up COVID-19 Testing
NewsThe Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department will start providing drive up testing one day per week at each office starting in Leelanau on Tuesday, September 8, and Benzie on Wednesday, September 9.
Growing La Casa Verde Farm with Noel Weeks
NewsYou may have seen Noel Weeks at farm markets in Leelanau or Traverse City in the past few years. Maybe you noticed Facebook posts of La Casa Verde, his organic farm business. Maybe you decided to join his CSA this spring, when the Coronavirus gave you a new appreciation for locally grown, nutritious food. The slender young man’s soft voice and easy demeanor belies a fierce work ethic and relentless determination to succeed.
Wine Tasting Al Fresco in Leelanau
NewsWith bars in Traverse City and Bellaire writing lengthy pleas to the public to respect their employees, to refrain from cursing, spitting and worse, it was time to check in with Leelanau County’s wineries and see how they’ve managed the COVID-19 requirements of mask-wearing, distancing, sanitizing surfaces, and more.
Empire’s Emma Spencer adapts with gap year in the Big Easy
NewsLike all college students, Emma Spencer is trying to figure out her future while navigating the tentative present. Continue college on Zoom, or take a gap year? Pay the same tuition as if you were in classrooms with professors and students, or try to make money for next year? Stay home, or pull up stakes for someplace else? Engage people, or stay away from them?
New restaurant Farm Club builds reverence for the land
News“I’m excited about eating everything right now. It’s August,” smiles farmer Nic Theisen as he suppresses a giggle. “I’m eating lots of tomatoes. That’s exciting. Now that coolness is on the horizon, one of my favorite things is ratatouille. When there are piles of eggplant, piles of zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, and onions, ratatouille will be on the menu. It will be the best ratatouille this side of the mud river. Nic and his partner Sara, who own Loma Farm, have teamed up with Gary and Allison Jonas, owners of The Little Fleet in Traverse City, to open Leelanau County’s newest restaurant, Farm Club, on a southward facing hill in Elmwood Township.
COVID claustrophobia plus summer heat combine for record month at Sleeping Bear Dunes
NewsNearly 600,000 people visited our National Lakeshore last month (the exact number was 592,404)—sprinting by the previous monthly record of 561,784 from July 2017, like a happy teenager gaining speed as they descend the face of the Dune Climb.
Slow down, stop racism, fight for equity
News“We have a geographic implicit bias right here in our county, where the highway was built upon a village,” said Melissa Petoskey on Aug. 19 as cars zoomed by on M-22, seemingly unaware that they were driving through a tribal reservation between Suttons Bay and Northport. Petoskey is the human relations executive for the Grand Traverse Band. “There’s no reduction in speed limit here. We’re the only village in Leelanau County without a reduction in speed.