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Glen Lake girls bring the world’s sport home
Sports/AdventureBy Nadine Gilmer Sun contributor Sports fans worldwide adore the game of soccer (football, by its true name), but in northern Michigan, you won’t find people skipping summer grill parties to watch the World Cup. Has the world’s sport passed us by? Not so fast. Girl’s soccer at Glen Lake school is on the rise […]
Operation Spawning Fish
Investigative ArticleFrom staff reports The Glen Lake Association aims to improve fishing in the Glen Lakes this year. The key to improving Glen Lake’s natural warm water fish populations, such as perch, pike, and bass, is a good spawning habitat, writes Rob Karner, project manager for the Association and biologist and teacher at the Leelanau School. […]
For Cedar-swamped residents, it’s 60-minute veggie beds
Food/Organic LivingPat Stinson Sun contributor Two years ago, our household of two joined a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) and loved the variety of produce we pulled from our bag each week: vegetables, fruit, berries, eggs and the occasional hunk of local cheese, bottle of wine or salad dressing. Our full share was a glorious riot of […]
Is our asparagus obsession weird?
NewsMSN.com’s travel site named our own Empire Asparagus Festival among “The World’s Weirdest Festivals”. “The Empire Asparagus Festival in Empire, Mich., is dedicated entirely to this perennial vegetable. Michigan is one of the top asparagus producers in the U.S., but since Empire is known more for its artsy side than its agricultural one, the festival […]
Bridging the Gap
News, Talk of the TownThe Narrows Bridge over the Glen Lakes is being rebuilt this summer, so take a detour on M-109 west of Little Glen Lake (and past the Dune Climb) or on CR 675 east of Big Glen Lake (and over Inspiration Point) to reach Glen Arbor. But don’t forget about the important businesses, galleries, movie rental […]
Park stimulus means jobs
Investigative ArticleBy Jacob Wheeler Sun editor Tom Ulrich, Deputy Superintendent of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (the local branch of the National Park Service), says that the $2.2 million the Lakeshore will receive under the Obama administration’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — or “stimulus package” — will result in immediate local jobs, and the […]
The Village Chatter: Print media is dead! Long live community newspapers!
Talk of the TownBy Jacob Wheeler Sun editor They say that newspapers are dead. They say that readers have abandoned print media, en masse, for greener pastures on the Internet. They say that those of us still trying to make money by disseminating hard news, features or entertainment on paper may as well be arranging deck chairs on […]
The Glen Arbor Sun Interview: John Peppler
Local PersonalityIn honor of Memorial Day, we spoke with Glen Arbor native and Coldwell Banker real estate broker John Peppler about his service in Vietnam and the way that experience has impacted his life, and views on service and patriotism, since coming home. If you Google his unit, the 1st Battalion 20th Infantry, you’ll find that […]
Keeping the peace: A conscientious objector reflects
Local PersonalityBy F. Josephine Arrowood Sun contributor Memorial Day traditionally signals the start of summer, festively launching Leelanau County’s flotilla of villages into waves of visitors, family gatherings, beach outings and more. Some folks still recall the holiday’s original purpose, begun after the Civil War. Veterans offer paper poppies, civic groups lower the flag, and communities […]
Premium Pour and the Leland Wine & Food Festival
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