2007 Empire Asparagus Festival Poetry Contest winners

Adult category Tom Ulrich Spare Gus My grandfather grew asparagus. Not in raised beds, or rows, But in a chaos of well-rotted manure And a ragged forest of spears. He called it by name, with affection. When I was younger I thought “Spare Gus” Was the nickname for an old friend of his Who came […]

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Park considers public input on eve of new Management Plan

The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (the local branch of the National Park Service) will hold three public meetings this week, May 1-3, to solicit public input about the three “Preferred Alternatives” suggested in a recent newsletter, toward developing a new General Management Plan that would guide the Park for decades to come. The photo […]

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Winterfests warm the blood during the coldest months

Like father, like son: John and Charlie Velis (left) jump into frigid South Bar Lake during Empire’s Winterfest Polar Dip last weekend (photo Ryan Romeike); Skiers from downstate, Dave and Brian Johnson (right) warm up with hearty chili at Glen Arbor’s Winterfest this past weekend (photo Mike Buhler).

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Death of a hero, yet her vision lives on

In recent years the Glen Arbor Sun has written about a humanitarian non-profit organization in Guatemala that has touched the lives of numerous northern Michigan locals and sent them on service-learning trips to Guatemala City to lend a hand in and around the massive garbage dump where Safe Passage is a guiding light for hundreds […]

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Local passionate environmentalist fights on

By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor Watching Bob Grooters mingle with the baristas at Glen Arbor’s Leelanau Coffee Roasting Company and greet the few folks seated outside on a typically quiet fall day, he looks as unassuming as any northern Michigan year-rounder. You wouldn’t think Bob is worth $150 million. But that’s the amount of increased […]

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Sun sets over Little Glen Lake

… and with it the Glen Arbor Sun goes into hibernation for the winter. Thanks again for your readership this year, and look for us again on Memorial Day weekend, 2007. Photo by Ryan Romeike Look for more of Romeike’s fine photography on our website or in our print edition. This past year he’s captured […]

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Local boys explore America’s world role in new documentary

By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor Now that the elections are over, let’s talk politics. Let’s enter the ring and debate about Bush, and the Muslim world, and the war on terror. Wait, no, not the kind of boxing match discussion that pits only two sides against each other — each off in their own corner […]

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Art Forum Berlin In 1,000 Words or Less

By Steven Matthew Brown Sun contributor Steven Matthew Brown, a former Artist in Residence at the Glen Arbor Art Association, is a native Detroiter. Brown is currently pursuing his Masters in Fine Arts at the Bauhaus Universität in Weimar, Germany. Photo by Norm Dagen “121 galleries from 22 countries will show new works by their […]

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Before We Hibernate: Leaves, Wood, Food

By Holly Wren Spaulding Sun contributor Each fall my mood takes a plunge when things start dying off around me. At the end of the growing year, there is a thread of despair as I remember my own mortality and the end that comes in the cycle all living things. Low pressure or the stirring […]

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Glen Lake Library holds holiday book drive, “Stories & More”

From staff reports A special holiday tradition continues as we kick off our eight annual call for children’s books on November 15. The Friends of the Glen Lake Community Library, in cooperation with Glen Lake School’s “Parenting Communities” program (formerly the “Way To Grow” program), are seeking donations of new books for children in our […]

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