Firefighters practice their skills

Glen Arbor firefighters demonstrate methods used to extinguish a car fire during the annual Open House. Photo by Joanne Rettke The Glen Arbor Sun has concluded publishing for the summer, but we’ll print three “off-season” issues, on September 13, November 7 and January 17. Look for coverage of the Tour de Leelanau bike race, recently […]

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Chatter au lait … and Coffee, too

By Joanne Bender Sun contributor They meet daily at the Leelanau Coffee Roasting Company in Glen Arbor, winter, spring, summer and fall. Outside or inside, depending on weather conditions. “They” includes the “regulars” and most are “locals.” Why? To talk, to laugh, to chide one another and to have a cup of java. The group […]

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New photographer sends a Ripple throughout local art scene

By Corin Blust Sun contributor Jeff Ripple may be “a Florida boy at heart,” but after marrying local Pam Lincoln last July he has begun to embrace the idyllic rolling hills and gentle landscape that characterizes Leelanau County. Ripple’s breathtakingly detailed wilderness photographs are on display at his new gallery and studio, Ripple Effect, on […]

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Mike Vanderberg: Free Thinker, Anarchist, Village Anchor

By F. Josephine Arrowood Sun contributor Since the sudden death of Mike Vanderberg on August 11, at the site of the recent Dunegrass Music Festival, residents of the Village of Empire and beyond have responded to the news with shock, sadness and a sense of disbelief. This generous, eccentric spirit created and presided over village […]

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Kids’ Camp popular at Township Park

By Joanne Bender Sun contributor Mahrle Siddall (4), Sophie Ramont (7) Marcaira Midgley (4) and Audrey Ramont (4) were hard at work creating sand paintings, with a few googly eyes and colored puffballs added for astonishing effects. They were just a few of the happy kids busy at the art table at Glen Arbor Township […]

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Tireless Connie Binsfeld looks forward to Narrows Bridgewalk

By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor Connie Binsfeld, the Burdickville resident and former lieutenant governor of Michigan under John Engler, hasn’t missed a single Labor Day Bridgewalk, and she doesn’t plan on watching from the sidelines this year either. The popular annual trek across the Carl Oleson Jr. Memorial Bridge, which splits Big and Little Glen […]

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Local author Anne-Marie Oomen steers us on a journey of discovery

By Nadine Gilmer Sun contributor When Anne-Marie Oomen found the book International Code of Signals in the lifesaver’s museum at Glen Haven in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, she “was fascinated by these hundreds of codes to guide the ships and sailors,” she recalls. The book, prepared and published by the Defense Mapping Agency […]

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Ah! Sunflowers

By Holly Wren Spaulding Sun contributor For gardeners and farmers, summer is partially understood in terms of what is coming ripe at what time, so early on there are sugar snap peas and eventually fresh garlic, and eventually tomatoes and squash and soon there will be melons. We know where we are in the season […]

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The fight to save Tiger Stadium

From staff reports September is just around the corner, and for the second year in a row, our beloved Detroit Tigers are eyeing the playoffs, and if the pitching holds up, another trip to the World Series (they haven’t done that since 1934-35!). But while baseball’s all the rage downtown at stylish Comerica Park, her […]

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A slice of heaven in Chef Gene’s kitchen

By F. Josephine Arrowood Sun contributor This summer, area residents and visitors alike have been making pilgrimages to the Cedar City Market, where they are embraced by the warmth of freshly brewed coffee, cinnamon rolled into golden pastries and nourishing, seasonal soups, all created by Chef Gene Payerk. He entered the culinary world less than […]

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