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Puppets airborne, and hands in the soil, at Little Artshram summer camp
Local PersonalityBy Corin Blust Sun contributor The first thing that strikes me about the Community Garden in Traverse City is the creative ways that people have outfitted their respective garden plots. There are trellises made out of hula hoop-like wire structures, a lovely bean support made out of poles scavenged from the forest and an impressive […]
Life Springs Eternal
Photo SpreadA few days after a wildland fire scorched several acres of Port Onedia prairie, a quenching rain fell. And from that springs new grass, and the field is once again alive! Photo by Mike Buhler Stay tuned in future issues of the Glen Arbor Sun for stories on Dr. Chuck Olson’s quest to save historic […]
Locals living ‘off the grid’
Food/Organic LivingBy Ian Vertel Sun contributor As our consciousness shifts toward developing more sustainable practices of living with the Earth, rather than simply on the Earth, local northern Michigan residents are answering the call. Jackie Ankerson and her husband Allan Fici on South Lime Lake Road live “off the grid.” They are “half a mile from […]
Remembering a childhood on South Manitou Island
Historical FeatureBy Nadine Gilmer Sun contributor It seems strange and exciting now to think that there is a ghost town on that strip of South Manitou Island that can be see from the beach along Sleeping Bear Bay. What is today a huge, uninhabited part of the National Park was once just anther small town in […]
Music: Balm for the Mind
Local PersonalityBy Codi Yeager Sun contributor Only around 20 people sat in the small, flag-decorated hall at The Leelanau School on June 8. The doors, open to the summer afternoon, ushered in only a tiny breeze, but the small audience focused not on the heat. Their attention was on the young pianists whose muscle-memory fingers whizzed […]
It Can Change Your Heart
Poetry/EssayBy Holly Wren Spaulding Sun contributor “I never notice flowers,” says Ted. He’s a composer, a musician, and I’m a little baffled by this. “Don’t all artists pay attention to such things.” I had cut what I could from the droughty garden — the last of the white peonies, some margarita daisies, flowering mint, violets. […]
Family-owned Maple Disposal puts customers’ needs first
Business FeatureBy Pat Stinson Sun contributor With one truck and a goal of giving nothing but the best possible service and price, Dave Barron bought Cedar Disposal from Waste Management in the spring of 2002. The solid waste collection corporation, headquartered in Texas, had acquired the company from original owners “Art and Mike” when the pair […]
Glen Lake Garden Club takes “A Step Back in Time”
Historical FeaturePress release On a sunny and breezy afternoon, Tuesday, June 19, members of the Glen Lake Garden Club and their guests celebrated the completion of the club’s 30th year at an afternoon picnic at the historic D.H. Day Farm. Owners Don and Annette Lewis, graciously opened their beautiful farm for the Garden Club’s event to […]
T.R.A.M.P.S. aloft in Empire
Photo SpreadBy Mike Buhler The Traverse Area Model Pilots Society took to flight at the Empire Airport last Saturday, with hundreds of model airplanes, and several hundred participants and spectators from across the Great Lakes region. Doug Sattler (below) is typical of the members, a ten-year enthusiast from Traverse City with 19 airplanes. Asked about when […]
Remembering Dick Owen
Letter to editor/OpinionTo the Editor: Summer is here, but someone is missing. Our dear friend — owner of Tiffany’s ice cream parlor, baker of hot cakes and cookies, leader of Empire Days and whatever else needed to be done, resident curmudgeon, and most generous of spirits underneath that tough shell — Dick (aka Rich) Owen is gone. […]