The perfection of La Becasse

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By Norm Wheeler Sun editor What is the perfect finish to an ideal summer day? What dwelling could you possibly enter after baking all afternoon on a secret beach where the sugar sand and the sweet water have drawn every knot of stress and worry from your languid body? Where can you find the ideal […]

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Arts Collage celebrates five years in Glen Arbor

From staff reports The Arts Collage returns to the Lake Street Studio stage in Glen Arbor on Sunday, Aug. 1 at 8 p.m., featuring a special line-up of regional, national and international scale creative arts performers, including local poet, writer and activist Holly Wren Spaulding, contemporary dancer Gretchen Eichberger, the Little Bang Theory’s Toy Instrument […]

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Traverse City Film Festival 2010

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Gasland “Gasland” by director Josh Fox, aired at the 2010 Traverse City Film Festival, on Saturday, July 31. Following the movie, Fox and two Michiganders spoke about natural gas and mineral drilling companies, and the threats their “fracking” practices pose to the environment and citizen health. Que viva la revolucion de beisbol! Many of the […]

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Dickinson photos capture Lakeshore’s beauty

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By Chloe Gribbin Sun contributor The photos mounted on the walls of the Dickinson photo gallery on M-109 are an obvious attraction to those wandering the streets of Glen Arbor. The prints range from black and white to hand tinted, and offer beautiful scenes around the Glen Arbor and Empire area — both vintage and […]

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Fighting fires with a smile

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By Nadine Gilmer Sun contributor Twice a week, Mr. Happy drives to work for a 24-hour shift. Mr. Happy is a firefighter, and also goes by the aliases of “tinker-boy” and his given name, Andrew Anthony. I call him “Mr. Happy” because that is what the vanity plate on his truck reads. The name suits […]

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Candidate John Arens

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By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor Avid readers of this newspaper who also frequent the Leelanau Coffee Roasting Company and have talked with John Arens, part owner of the Glen Arbor business, know that our politics don’t align. In fact, on some days our perspectives on current issues seem as far apart as the distance from […]

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“Running Bear” runs again

From staff reports The Glen Arbor Women’s Club will hold its fourth annual “5K Running Bear Run” on July 27. Last year more than 700 runners, young and old, took part. The Women’s Club sought an activity that the whole family could enjoy, from the youngest child to their grandparents. The run day includes a […]

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“Why Leelanau?” goes viral

By Pat Stinson Sun contributor Empire resident Julie Weeks loves creating slideshows she posts on YouTube for family and friends to view. Using music and digital images of family members, vacation trips and activities she and her husband enjoy, Weeks produces a montage of gorgeously-framed and sometimes funny pictures and video she shares as a […]

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New owners get old school

From staff reports Mark and Jennifer Cundiff acquired the Glen Arbor Athletic Club in the old school hardware building last September from the Gretzemas and Walters. The Cundiffs had run a physical therapy clinic at the Athletic Club since 2004 — the year after it opened, and the same year they were married in Traverse City. […]

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The BP oil disaster — we’re all guilty

From staff reports For some of us, the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico seems like nothing more than a story on the nightly news — a calamity happening on the other side of our continent. Of course, it does affect us all, and it ought to force us to consume less oil […]

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