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Sleeping Bear Dunes hosts “Find Your Park” After Dark: Summer Star Party
Upcoming EventThe sky is the limit at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Join park rangers and astronomers from the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society (GTAS) on Saturday, July 14, at the Dune Climb parking lot.
Sleeping Bear Dunes hosts book signing with Legend of Sleeping Bear illustrator
Upcoming EventThe Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is pleased to announce a very special book signing with Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen, illustrator of the children’s books The Legend of Sleeping Bear and S is for Sleeping Bear Dunes on Thursday, July 12. The book signing will take place at the Philip A. Hart Visitor Center, 9922 Front Street, Empire, MI 49630 from 10-11 a.m.
Bay Theater holds Kids’ Movie Series
Upcoming EventThe Bay Theater of Suttons Bay has announced a kids’ movie series with showtimes all summer long. Bring your friends, family and neighbors for cool, family-friendly, summer entertainment. Showtimes are Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 3 p.m.
Three Stand-up guys plan to cross Lake Superior on paddle boards
Sports/Adventure, Upcoming EventThis July three men, Joe Lorenz, Kwin Morris and Jeff Guy, will attempt something that has never been done—to paddleboard across Lake Superior, the largest, coldest and most dangerous of the Great Lakes.
Investing in community, funding an indoor climbing center
Business Feature, Sports/AdventureNancy and Larry Bordine plan to build an indoor rock climbing facility called MI Summit in Long Lake Township just west of Traverse City.
Grabbing the thistle
Investigative Article, Local PersonalityJulie Christian and I met on one of those blindingly clear and cold mid-March days with a bayonet wind coming off Lake Michigan. Christian is the newly appointed Chief of Natural Resources at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
Vintners honor Bernie Rink, pioneer of northern Michigan wine industry
Business Feature, Local Personality, Upcoming EventLeelanau vintners will hold a Boskydel Tribute on Saturday, July 7, from 6-10 p.m. at Aurora Cellars in Lake Leelanau. The event is a collaboration between Good Harbor Vineyards, Mawby and Bel Lago Vineyards to honor Bernie Rink, pioneer of the region’s wine industry.
2018 Dune Climb Concert features Jazz North with Robin Lee Berry
Upcoming EventAfter the disappointment of cancelling due to weather last year, the Glen Arbor Art Center’s Manitou Music Festival Dune Climb Concert is back on Sunday, July 8 at 7 p.m. at the popular Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Dune Climb.
Look in the Mirror, Uncle Sam
Letter to editor/OpinionThese days, the leaders of the United States talk about building a wall to keep people out. Perhaps instead of a wall, we should construct a giant mirror this Fourth of July, and take a look at ourselves, who we are, what choices we’re making, and where we are headed as a nation, as a community.
Grocer’s Daughter Chocolate moves into hyggelig new space; fudgsicles sell like hotcakes
Business Feature, Food/Organic LivingOne day last year, before Grocer’s Daughter Chocolate owners Jody and DC Hayden purchased the retail space next to Margaret Hodge’s Anchor Hardware—across M-22 from the Empire Village Inn—DC counted the number of cars that drove by and determined that Empire gets twice as much traffic north of the M-22 and M-72 intersection than south, where M-22 heads toward Benzie County. That sealed the deal.