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Center Gallery features “Return to Leelanau”
Upcoming EventGrand Ledge artist Michael Lowery makes a “Return To Leelanau” with a new body of watercolor paintings on June 26 at Center Gallery, which is located at 6023 S. Lake Street in Glen Arbor. An artist’s reception is scheduled from 6-8 p.m.
The Dunes as classroom
Local PersonalityThe Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore — with its 64 miles of freshwater shoreline; its massive, eponymous dunes; its forested hills; its ridge and swale wetlands; its inland lakes where the only domestic architecture might be a beaver lodge — is an artist magnet.
Glen Arbor Tennis Tournament
Upcoming EventGlen Arbor’s annual Tennis Tournament is scheduled for June 26-28. All matches are doubles and are played at the downtown courts in Glen Arbor or at the Leelanau School.
If You Build It, They Will Come
Business FeatureJeff Hessler began lobbying way back in 1976 for a skatepark in Frankfort. The co-owner of Betsie Bay Furniture, next to Stormcloud Brewery, has skated these streets since he was 14 years old. “I’ve been skating since the polyurethane wheel came out,” he says. Nearly 40 years later, he and his 14-year-old daughter Annie may soon get their wish.
Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail ribbon cutting held in Port Oneida
Upcoming EventThe public is invited to attend the official ribbon cutting for the newest section of the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail from Fisher Road, near Glen Arbor, to Port Oneida Road, on June 17 at 11 a.m. at the Olsen Farm in Port Oneida, 3164 W Harbor Highway (M-22).
Coldwater kayaking not a hot idea
Sports/AdventureThinking of taking your kayak or canoe from Sleeping Bear Point to South Manitou Island? Think again. The air temperature may reach a balmy 80 degrees, and the surface water temperature near the beach is slowly approaching swimmable levels. But the open water temperature out in the Manitou Passage never reaches the 60s. That’s frigid. And it can kill you.
A shootout in the ghost town of Aral
Historical FeatureAral was a logging settlement with a colorful history, largely because it witnessed one of the area’s few pioneer shootouts. Aral is located four miles south of Empire at the end of Esch Road, where Otter Creek empties into Lake Michigan. Today it’s one of the most popular swimming beaches in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, and offers few signs of its colorful past, when Aral was a thriving wooding town.
Solstice Half Marathon/5K departs June 20
Upcoming EventJoin Endurance Evolution for a scenic half marathon or 5k running race in Glen Arbor. This is the fourth annual Glen Arbor Solstice Half Marathon & 5K event, taking place on Saturday, June 20 at 7 a.m.
The Dog’s Cat
NewsBy Kathleen Stocking Sun contributor The ad on Craig’s List offers free kittens. It’s one of those downy spring days with everything the softest shades of green and yellow under a pale blue sky. From the big woods behind my house emanates the baby powder smell that comes out of the ground when winter’s finally […]
Library presents children’s programs
Upcoming EventThe Glen Lake Community Library in Empire will begin it’s summer season of children’s programs with a presentation on Thursday, June 18, at 11 a.m. by Al Declercq, author of Bernida: a Michigan Sailing Legend. Declercq’s book, about the sailboat that won the inaugural Port Huron to Mackinac Island race in 1925, was selected as a Michigan Notable Book by the Library of Michigan.