Local environmental groups benefit from Cherry Republic’s “31 Days of Giving”

The Leelanau Conservancy, For Love of Water and the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail are three of more than 50 grant recipients that will be named throughout the month of December in what has become a much-anticipated philanthropic drive for Cherry Republic to protect Michigan’s environment and farmland.

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Sleeping Bear Dunes offer Holiday and Saturday Snowshoe Hikes

With snow in the forecast, rangers are beginning to get the park’s snowshoes out so visitors can explore Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore this winter. Ranger-led snowshoe hikes will be offered on Wednesday, Dec. 27 at 1 p.m.; Friday, Dec. 29 at 10 a.m.; Saturday, Dec. 30 at 1 p.m.; and then on Saturdays at 1 p.m. from Jan. 6 through March 17. Meet at the National Lakeshore’s Philip A. Hart Visitor Center in Empire. Reservations are required. Please call 231-326-4700, extension 5010, for details and to make reservations.

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Readers’ Theater performs “Remember the Night”

The Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) Readers’ Theater presents “Remember The Night,” a tale of petty larceny, redemption and Cupid just doing his job in time for the holidays. Readers’ Theater performs the play on December 8-9 at 7:30 p.m. at the Glen Lake Community Reformed Church, 4902 W. MacFarlane Road in Burdickville.

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Sleeping Bear Dunes announces Platte River Mouth Restoration and access plan

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore superintendent Scott Tucker recently announced the issuance of a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Platte River Mouth Restoration and Access Plan/Environmental Assessment (EA). The National Park Service (NPS) has selected the Preferred Alternative (Alternative 2) presented in the EA.

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Manitou Winds concert sets reflective mood for holiday season

Local chamber ensemble Manitou Winds will present a special encore performance of its “Winter Songs & Carols” concert on Friday, Dec. 8, at 7:30 p.m. at The Leelanau School in Glen Arbor, as part of the Glen Arbor Art Association’s Manitou Music Festival. Admission is free, and a freewill offering will be taken to benefit arts programs at The Leelanau School and future recording projects for Manitou Winds.

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Deering’s Market, Taste the Local Difference, build healthier Empire

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Taste the Local Difference (TLD), Michigan’s local food marketing agency and a social enterprise of the Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities, is facilitating a state funded grant called Building Healthy Communities (BHC) that creates local change for better health.

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Let’s talk about the environment, conservation and climate change

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Northern Michigan’s heritage landscapes are changing as invasive species, urban development and climate change alter, damage or destroy familiar plant and animal communities on the land and in our waters. Longtime science journalist Joe VanderMeulen understands the challenges these developments pose to volunteer conservationists, natural resource professionals and the organizations working to manage, protect and preserve the forests, wetlands, streams and lakes of our beloved region.

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Welcome to the season of good reads

Here they are again. The holidays. Time for gift giving, followed by curling up with a good book. Or read a good book, then buy a second copy as a gift. A huge inventory exists of local books, defined here as those about the area, set in the area or authored by area folk.

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Sleeping Bear. A Poem

Linda Gregerson’s poem “Sleeping Bear” republished from Poetry London.

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Maple City to get Glen Arbor playground equipment

Kids enjoying the new Glen Arbor playground equipment but who also miss their past favorites will be able to ride that zip line, teeter totter, swing on those swings, and operate that excavator in Maple City next summer, thanks to the brainstorm of one Maple City resident with help from many others.

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