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From celebration to sinister
Investigative Article, Letter to editor/OpinionNearly 10 years ago, in August 2005, this community newspaper published a celebratory feature story titled “Old Cowboy, New Tricks”, about the late Bill Bricker. In 2011, online commenters using anonymous email addresses suddenly began to allege that Bricker had sexually molested them and other underage boys. The accusations of pedophilia became more and more serious, and seemed to coincide with the Jerry Sandusky child abuse scandal.
Women of an uncertain age
Local PersonalitySo, you’re a woman of a certain age. You’re looking into the mirror that is TV, and the idealized face reflected back looks nothing like the one you’re wearing. What’s a girl to do?
My African-American relatives
Historical Feature, Local PersonalityI wanted to have African-American relatives long before I learned that, through marriage, I did. It just made sense to me that with the Stocking family in America for almost 400 years that sometime, somewhere, somehow, we had married people who were black.
Remembering Dottie Lanham
Historical Feature, Local PersonalityBurdickville historian Tom Van Zoeren reports that Dottie Lanham passed away on December 30 — five days after her 90th birthday. She was born on Christmas Day in 1924. Van Zoeren penned the book Dottie Lanham of Burdickville: Images, Recollections, and Observations of a Northern Michigan Woman and Her Community.
Glen Arbor Art Association’s Readers’ Theater holds auditions
Upcoming EventReaders’ Theater is casting “Motherhood Out Loud” on Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. at the Glen Arbor Art Association, at 6031 S. Lake Street in Glen Arbor. The cast consists of one to two men and four to 12 women, directed by Harriett Mittelberger. This off-Broadway play will have three performances Feb. 27, 28 and March 1. It is a valentine to all women and the men who love and respect them encompassing a series of monologues and scenes that demonstrate the hilarity and pain of motherhood. As a readers’ theater format, actors will read from the script so there is nothing to memorize. For further information call 231-334-6112.
Top stories of 2014: canopy air walk; Doc Houghton, Sugar Loaf
Investigative Article, NewsThe most popular Glen Arbor Sun story of 2014 was an investigative article in February that featured a proposed canopy air walk in Kasson Township, near Burdickville, that never materialized. Local opposition to Mark Evan’s “air walk” was nearly unanimous, and passionate. Our story attracted thousands of views, and 55 comments.
Giving Back at the Leelanau Coffee Roasters
Upcoming EventThe Fine folks at Leelanau Coffee Roasters are “Giving Back” to the community this Friday, Dec. 19, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m., with a Customer Appreciation Day combined with a fundraising effort for the Empire Area Community Emergency Fund and the Empire Food Bank.
Ring in the New Year in Empire
Upcoming EventFrom staff reports Ring in the New Year at the Empire Town Hall with a party that begins, Dec. 31, at 8:30 p.m. Get on your dancing shoes. Chris Skellenger, Doug Zernow and friends will perform live music. Bring an appetizer to share and Bring Your Own Beverage.
Sugar Loaf: a tale of various narratives
NewsWho’s to blame for the 20-month delay in transferring the title of Sugar Loaf resort from former owner Kate Wickstrom back to “new” owner Remo Polselli? Wickstrom received a contract back in March 2013 to transfer the deed.
Sleeping Bear Dunes offers guided snowshoe hikes
Upcoming EventCome explore Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on snowshoes this winter. Join park rangers for a guided snowshoe hike this holiday season and every Saturday throughout the winter. The first hike of the season will be on Saturday, Dec. 27, 2014 at 1 p.m. The snowshoe hikes will continue to be offered every Saturday at 1 p.m. through March 7, 2015. Meet at the National Lakeshore’s Philip A. Hart Visitor Center in Empire. If you don’t have your own snowshoes, a pair will be loaned at no charge. Participants need only purchase the park entrance pass or have an annual pass to join in the fun.