By Jane Greiner Sun nature correspondent A few weeks ago we lived in a world of muted color tones, the ground was brown and the trees were just starting to show pink and chartreuse buds. Everyone was busy searching for mushrooms, enjoying the Trillium, planting gardens, or waiting for bass season to open. Now the […]
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By Jane Greiner Sun staff writer The timber framing for the supporting walls of the new building at Cherry Republic went up in just one day. Robert Foulkes and his crew of six, from White Oak Timber Framers of Suttons Bay assembled, hoisted, braced, pushed and pounded the tree-sized components into place. “Handy Randy” Weirich, […]
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By Jacob R. Wheeler Sun editor The American boy’s passport is his driver’s license, and a fortuneteller’s reading of his future spells itself out on a Rand McNally road atlas of the United States. Tiny county roads flow into highways like tributaries driven by fate towards the roaring river, and, in turn, the highways are […]
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By Torin Yeager Sun contributor Picture this scenario: a boy, his dog, and his little sister walking peacefully along a path through the woods near the shore of Lake Michigan. The boy tosses a fair-sized stick into the brambles surrounding the path, and the dog, ever enamored by wood, goes howling in after it. After […]
By Ashlea Turner Sun contributor If you’re out on Lake Michigan, Lake Superior or maybe even the St. Lawrence Seaway in the near future, you might just witness history repeat herself. The Leelanau School’s replica of a 16th-century Voyageur Canoe might just speed right past you in its 33 feet of cedar glory.
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By Sue Woodward and Nadine Nienhuis Sun contributors The 45th parallel, an imaginary line that circles the globe halfway between the equator and the North Pole, passes through Suttons Bay, Old Mission Lighthouse, Yellowstone Park’s Mammoth Hot Springs, Bordeaux, Venice and San Francisco. Some think there is a unique, creative force in the surrounding areas […]
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By Jacob R. Wheeler Sun editor Nearly 90 years after the mysterious passenger steamboat captain Ralph Dorsey disabled and sank his magnificent craft, Rescue, with an axe on Big Glen Lake, the boat’s whereabouts remain as murky as his motives for doing so. Not even a team of professional scientists from the University of Michigan, […]
By Jane Greiner Sun nature correspondent Sandra Catlin of Honor and I recently attended the Cougar Tracking Seminar put on by the Michigan Wildlife Conservancy. Catlin has twice spotted a black cougar on the roads between her home and her job in Glen Arbor. Having seen a cougar with her own eyes (when they supposedly […]
How Green is our valley
Food/Organic LivingBy Jane Greiner Sun nature correspondent A few weeks ago we lived in a world of muted color tones, the ground was brown and the trees were just starting to show pink and chartreuse buds. Everyone was busy searching for mushrooms, enjoying the Trillium, planting gardens, or waiting for bass season to open. Now the […]
How to plan the perfect sunset
Food/Organic LivingBy Forest Mullin Sun contributor
Leelanau School students harness wave energy to light bulb
Sports/AdventureBy Kristen Counts Sun contributor
Timber Framing at new Cherry Republic building
Business FeatureBy Jane Greiner Sun staff writer The timber framing for the supporting walls of the new building at Cherry Republic went up in just one day. Robert Foulkes and his crew of six, from White Oak Timber Framers of Suttons Bay assembled, hoisted, braced, pushed and pounded the tree-sized components into place. “Handy Randy” Weirich, […]
On the Road: Leaving the Midwest’s gloomy grey for Southwestern red dirt
Dispatch from AfarBy Jacob R. Wheeler Sun editor The American boy’s passport is his driver’s license, and a fortuneteller’s reading of his future spells itself out on a Rand McNally road atlas of the United States. Tiny county roads flow into highways like tributaries driven by fate towards the roaring river, and, in turn, the highways are […]
An Irritating Experience
Sports/AdventureBy Torin Yeager Sun contributor Picture this scenario: a boy, his dog, and his little sister walking peacefully along a path through the woods near the shore of Lake Michigan. The boy tosses a fair-sized stick into the brambles surrounding the path, and the dog, ever enamored by wood, goes howling in after it. After […]
Leelanau School navigates history and water
Sports/AdventureBy Ashlea Turner Sun contributor If you’re out on Lake Michigan, Lake Superior or maybe even the St. Lawrence Seaway in the near future, you might just witness history repeat herself. The Leelanau School’s replica of a 16th-century Voyageur Canoe might just speed right past you in its 33 feet of cedar glory.
SpiritWorks on the 45th parallel
Business FeatureBy Sue Woodward and Nadine Nienhuis Sun contributors The 45th parallel, an imaginary line that circles the globe halfway between the equator and the North Pole, passes through Suttons Bay, Old Mission Lighthouse, Yellowstone Park’s Mammoth Hot Springs, Bordeaux, Venice and San Francisco. Some think there is a unique, creative force in the surrounding areas […]
Dorsey’s sunken steamer eludes search, but fuels local folklore
Historical FeatureBy Jacob R. Wheeler Sun editor Nearly 90 years after the mysterious passenger steamboat captain Ralph Dorsey disabled and sank his magnificent craft, Rescue, with an axe on Big Glen Lake, the boat’s whereabouts remain as murky as his motives for doing so. Not even a team of professional scientists from the University of Michigan, […]
Local Women Attend Cougar Tracking Seminar
Investigative ArticleBy Jane Greiner Sun nature correspondent Sandra Catlin of Honor and I recently attended the Cougar Tracking Seminar put on by the Michigan Wildlife Conservancy. Catlin has twice spotted a black cougar on the roads between her home and her job in Glen Arbor. Having seen a cougar with her own eyes (when they supposedly […]