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Leelanau Conservancy’s Cedar River Preserve grows to 546 acres
NewsLate in June the Leelanau Conservancy closed on an 80-acre parcel adjacent to the Cedar River Preserve, growing the property to a total of 546 acres. This piece of land has been on the Conservancy’s priority list for nearly 30 years when founders Ed and Bobbie Collins first dreamt of protecting the unique, undisturbed property filled with rare plants and incredible wildlife habitat.
High waters, shrinking beaches up ante over road end lake access
NewsHigher Lake Michigan levels have shrunk beach areas and are exacerbating the struggle between public beachgoers and private landowners over access to our shoreline. A prime example can be found at the 60-foot-wide beach access at Reynolds Street in Leland, which for decades has been called “South Beach”.
Glen Arbor’s Revolutionary Realtor
NewsDoug Manning, an avid outdoorsman, hunter, sailor and connoisseur of fine colas, passed away on June 9. A realtor with a big personality and tremendous sense of humor, Manning and friend Michelle Stryker found an anchor off Empire beach in 1977 that prompted the town to celebrate its annual Anchor Day Festival. Manning was a regular at the Leelanau Coffee Roasters. Though a patriot and proud conservative, he once jokingly dressed as Fidel Castro for this real estate poster. RIP, Doug!
Friends of Glen Lake Library hold used book sale
NewsThe Friends of the Glen Lake Community Library will their annual used book sale Aug. 7-9 at the Glen Arbor Township Hall. This three-day fundraising event offers gently used books for adults and children in more than 50 categories, games, and puzzles, as well as DVDs and CDs. This year the Friends have an extraordinary selection of beautiful coffee table books. The sale is scheduled as follows:
Wildflowers celebrates 40 years in Glen Arbor
NewsWildflowers owner, Donna Burgan, said her store would have never lasted 40 years without the devotion of the community when she first opened it.
Leland Old Art Building hosts Crockett, Ball, Brown
NewsThe Leelanau Community Cultural Center (The Old Art Building) is pleased to announce a very special evening of music, featuring three gifted singer/songwriters Jim Crockett, Fred Ball and Mark Brown. These “Old Friends” are coming together to perform Thursday evening, August 8, at 7:30 p.m.
Sleeping Bear Dunes holds Port Oneida Fair
NewsEvery August, the Port Oneida Rural Historic District awakens from its peaceful slumber and comes alive with activity true to the period when it was a community of robust settlers.
Library, Book Shop host Elizabeth Berg
NewsThe Glen Lake Library and the Cottage Book Shop will host best-selling author Elizabeth Berg for a special matinee reading, on Monday Aug. 5 at 1 p.m., at the Glen Arbor Township Hall.
Unconscious on the Dunes
NewsAmy Bredehoft, from Birmingham, Ala., thought she was in shape to climb the Sleeping Bear Dune Climb on Monday, July 8. Sure, the 54-year-old and frequent summer visitor to Paul’s Paradise cabins on Little Traverse Lake had drunk coffee that morning and a couple alcoholic drinks the night before; she was on vacation, after all.
Center Gallery features abstract impressionist Kellner
NewsOn August 3, Center Gallery at Glen Arbor’s Lake Street Studios welcomes painter Justin Kellner. Because of the extraordinary excitement for the Glen Arbor Art Center’s annual plein air paint out, we at Center Gallery were looking to exhibit something a little different during that weekend. We wanted something that had a tie to the landscape, but not explicitly so.