Taking away the drugs: HomeTown Pharmacy leaves Glen Arbor

HomeTown Pharmacy announced yesterday that the Newaygo-based drugstore chain will close its Glen Arbor location, effective May 1. “With the local Doctor Matthew Houghton’s decision to retire, the business took a marked decrease in prescription volume. An already low volume went lower, and the sustainability was not looking like it would ever be regained,” wrote regional manager Anna Rider.

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Glen Arbor Art Association Readers’ Theater announces Casablanca

Have you been wanting to try out for a part but were worried about all the lines to memorize? Well, now is your chance because in reader’s theater, you don’t have to memorize lines. You read the script. On Monday, April 28 at 6:30 p.m. at the Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) you can meet the Readers’ Theater group and hear about upcoming shows. There will be snacks, drinks, scripts, and fellowship. The GAAA is looking for new talent and would love to have you join us. There is room for actors as well as those who have other skills. This is your chance to meet new people and have some fun as well.

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Empire artist featured at Traverse City Library

Artwork by longtime Glen Lake School teacher Peggy McNew will be featured at the Main (Woodmere) Branch of The Traverse Area District Library through the month of May.

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National Park hosts antique apple and pear tree pruning workshop

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will host its annual pruning workshop on May 2 in the Port Oneida Rural Historic District. The workshop will be held at the Thoreson Farmstead, which is located on Thoreson Road, four miles north of Glen Arbor on M-22. Just follow the signs.

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League of Women Voters host “A Great Start for All Children”

The League of Women Voters Leelanau County (LWVLC) will host a presentation titled “A Great Start for All Children” featuring Mary Manner at noon on Wednesday, May 7, in the Leelanau County Government Center. Manner will discuss the Great Start Collaborative’s work on the 5 to ONE project, a rural model for an early childhood system of resources across a five-county service area that includes Leelanau County.

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Forest canopy walk in Kasson Township likely shelved

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Eco-tourism guide Mark Evans will likely not pursue a forest canopy walk with views of the Glen Lakes in Leelanau County’s Kasson Township, the Glen Arbor Sun has learned. A site study conducted late this winter revealed that many of the ash trees on John and Wendy Martin’s 83 acres — perhaps as many as 60 percent — were infected with, or at least affected by, the emerald ash borer invasive species, which has decimated hardwood forests across the eastern United States. Only 40 percent of the trees affected were deemed treatable.

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Morgan Stanley Traverse City launches The Peninsula Group

The Traverse City office of Morgan Stanley is pleased to announce the formation of The Peninsula Group at Morgan Stanley, a process driven Investment Management Group consisting of Financial Advisors and partners Craig Rosenberg, Thomas Haase and Kevin Beaudoin, Portfolio Management Associate Christopher Radu, and Client Service Associates Jennifer Galla and Becky Leslie. The Peninsula Group utilizes a disciplined process to help provide asset, risk and wealth management for their client’s portfolios and has several clients in Glen Arbor, Suttons Bay, Northport and Leland. The Peninsula Group’s focus is to provide customized solutions to complex problems. For more information please call (231) 932-7230.

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View Lunar Eclipse at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

As darkness falls on Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, the glorious night sky becomes visible. A four-hour lunar eclipse is the feature for the National Lakeshore’s first Star Party of the year. This unique program will take place during the early morning of Tuesday, April 15, from 1:30-5:30 a.m., at the Dune Climb. Participants are asked to park in the row furthest from the dunes facing M-109. This Star Party could be cancelled during inclement weather; the decision is usually made a few hours in advance. Please call Park Rangers at 231-326-4700, ext. 5005, for a voicemail message with the decision.

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April Fools Day: Liko Smith acquires Glen Arbor Art Association’s Manitou Music Festival

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Eneliko “Liko” Smith, the enigmatic Samoan-born boxer turned hotelier who has made two ill-fated bouts for Sugar Loaf, has shifted gears and will instead acquire the Glen Arbor Art Association’s Manitou Music Festival — the popular classical and folk music concert series that takes place in the summertime at area churches, at the backyard studio stage at Lake Street Studios, and at the Sleeping Bear Dune Climb. Ann Arbor teacher and performer Harry Fried had run the Festival until stepping down last year. The Manitou Music Festival was founded about 20 years ago by world-renowned cellist Crispin Campbell, who has since gone on to found symphony orchestras in the Columbian jungle in land formerly occupied by leftist FARC-rebels.

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Leelanau Conservancy screens “Green Fire” about conservationist Aldo Leopold

Visit the Old Art Building in Leland on Tuesday, April 22, at 7 p.m. for the Leelanau Conservancy’s screening of Green Fire, the first full-length, high-definition documentary film ever made about legendary conservationist Aldo Leopold and his environmental legacy. Green Fire shares highlights from his extraordinary career, explaining how he shaped conservation and the modern environmental movement. It also illustrates how Leopold’s vision of community continues to inform and inspire people across the country and around the world, highlighting modern projects that put Leopold’s land ethic in action.

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