Out of retirement, into the hardware

By Codi Yeager Sun contributor Margaret Hodge has found her dream job. “I get to hang out with men all day long and then not have to clean or cook for them when I go home at night!” jokes the owner of Anchor Hardware, a small, jack-of-all trades store on M-22, just north of the […]

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Homestead’s “New Leaf” offers health and fitness

By Pat Stinson Sun contributor New Leaf, The Homestead’s state-of-the-art health and fitness center for resort guests and the public, opened in June and hosted a reception and tour recently for fitness enthusiasts and others contemplating change. The 4,000 square-foot center was built to attain the highest possible LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) […]

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Pete Edwards’ Nordic Walking Poles help wounded war heroes walk again

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By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor Wounded Iraq war veteran and Traverse City resident Michelle Rudzitis drove to Mount Adams in Washington state earlier this year for three days of solo hiking, camping and collecting her thoughts— two and a half years after a roadside bomb in Baghdad severed her left leg and nearly killed her. […]

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Castles are a Marine family

By Codi Yeager Sun contributor Anyone who has served in the military knows the meaning of brotherhood. For Kevin, Keith and Kyle Castle, that concept takes on additional significance. The three brothers, who grew up near Maple City and graduated from Glen Lake High School, all chose to serve in the United States Marine Corps—a […]

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Let’s Go Eat … Where??

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By Norm Wheeler Sun editor You are on vacation, so don’t cook! There are plenty of choices for dining out right here in this corner of Leelanau County, from breakfast to late-night munchies, from take out to slow food, from American to French to Italian, from quick and easy to refined and elegant. Most of […]

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Manitou Music Festival Kicks Off With Stars and Stripes

From staff reports On Friday, July 3, the Northport Community Band will perform at 7 p.m. outdoors at the Glen Arbor Athletic Club. This free concert is the first concert of the Glen Arbor Art Association’s 2009 Manitou Music Festival and will feature patriotic music. The Northport Community Band has existed for many years and […]

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Letters to the editor

No cheap shots at MDOT All of us in the Glen Lake area share your enthusiasm in welcoming the new owners of the On the Narrows Marina (“Narrows Minded: Marina wide open for summer,” June 11). We are excited to have the McCahills with us, and hope they’re here for many summers to come. However, […]

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Inaugural M-22 Challenge to feature running, biking, paddling

By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor The famous Sleeping Bear Dune Climb has hosted many events since the great mother bear lay down here and slumbered. Thousands of children have tumbled down this dune, their hair filling with beach sand. Chamber orchestras have played at its base, their music rising up the hill and moving toward […]

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Girls Night Out

Come and sample what Glen Arbor has to offer women, in the Glen Arbor Town Hall on Thursday, June 18. You’ll find music, chocolate, wine and food, not to mention shoes, scarves, beauty products, jewelry, clothing and lavender soap. You can even get a massage, talk to an investment or insurance counselor, or learn about […]

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Hops Returns To Empire: today’s crop finds a niche market

By Pat Stinson Sun contributor It’s the world’s largest pole barn, or a wind farm, or a kiwi farm. Those are some of the guesses made by visitors to a new hops farm on the north side of M-72, east of Fredrickson Road in Empire. With a twinkle in his eye, Dan Wiesen, one of […]

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