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Soccer, Mom?
Sports/AdventureBy F. Josephine Arrowood Sun contributor As the crackling of a frenetic workday fizzles into late afternoon, witness a scene familiar to many soccer families in Leelanau: rush home from work, gather up scattered cleats, knee-high socks, uniform, shin guards, soccer ball, water bottle, nutritious snack, then head back out the door to get to […]
Additions to your movie collection
Business FeatureBy Josh Burrows Sun contributor Did anyone besides me feel like they missed out on seeing as many films at the Traverse City Film Festival as they would have liked? Never fear, thanks to some generous people you still have a chance to see most of the films from the last two festivals. Not many […]
Solomon’s Wisdom: An allegory for a modern topic
Poetry/EssayBy “Uncle Peter” Sun contributor I had been on my way to Savannah when I stopped for a tire repair in a spot about seven miles east of the County seat, a mite of a place, hardly a town at all, just an intersection where the dirt farm road crossed the highway. A hearing was […]
Summer ’06 a biking extraordinaire
Sports/AdventureBy Joel Gaff Sun contributor When the Tour de Leelanau cycle race comes through Leelanau County on Saturday September 16, don’t expect the riders to be doped up on anything other than fresh air and beautiful scenery. That’s right, folks — the Tour is back for its sophomore edition with an even longer and tougher […]
Inaudible for two decades, the Tigers are roaring into fall!
Sports/AdventureBy Jacob Wheeler Sun editor I couldn’t believe the spectacle before me. Late-August was upon us and almost 50 pairs of eyes at a rodeo-packed Art’s Tavern in Glen Arbor were fixated on the television screen above the pinball machine, watching Detroit Tigers baseball.
Bringing in the harvest
Photo SpreadWill Hendricks (left) marvels at last year’s apple harvest. After washing the freshly picked apples, they are pressed in a hand-cranked machine. Finally, his mother Sharon Hendricks (right), filters the fresh apple juice through cheesecloth to remove pulp, readying fresh apple juice ready for the glass!
A Fall Tour of Leelanau
Poetry/EssayBy Ray Nargis Sun contributor This essay originally ran in the Glen Arbor Sun in the fall of 1999. Almost a quarter century ago — in the fall of 1977 — I drove from my home in Kalamazoo to see the Leelanau Peninsula for the first time. I was looking for a place to live […]
Field of Screams Annual Haunted Hayride
Upcoming EventTravel through the haunted forest on a tractor-pulled haywagon. Enjoy eerie theatrics, startling events, ghouls and spooks. Everyone is welcome, small children at parents discretion. Celebtrate Halloween with a night of fright! Two Fridays and two Saturdays before Halloween: October 20, 21, 27 and 28 from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. each night. $10 per victim, […]
Village Connector is quick and cheap
Business FeatureSchedule bus service provided by BATA has finally reached the Empire-Glen Arbor-Maple City-Cedar area. With four buses each day, and pickups in each of those villages and also at The Homestead and Glen Lake School, it is easy to move around this part of the county, and to reach Traverse City.
Will the Lake Street boat ramp move to Glen Haven?
Investigative ArticleBy Jacob Wheeler Sun editor High summer means a bottleneck of car and pedestrian traffic in downtown Glen Arbor, and nowhere is the problem more acute than at the north end of Lake Street, where the public boat ramp, Le Bear Resort and sunset watchers all compete for breathing space. For years now the Glen […]