Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore reported today that it is closing trails, trailheads, picnic areas, parking areas, and boat launches until further notice, effective immediately. These operations are to support federal, state, and local efforts to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Through Central United Methodist Church in Traverse City and Leland Community United Methodist Church, Michelle White and a team of local volunteers cook meals, gather donations and deliver the meals to those in need during the coronavirus pandemic.
From staff reports They are doctors, nurses and healthcare workers. They stock the shelves, slice the deli meat, and run the registers at grocery stores, they deliver your meals curbside, delicately pinching the paper bag between gloved fingers. They are the EMS first responders, the firemen and the cops. They are the distilleries that turn […]
“Being able to continue to care for members of our community in such a tumultuous and challenging time is a real privilege,” says doctor Cyrus Ghaemi.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore superintendent Scott Tucker is considering temporarily closing popular trails to the public, including Empire Bluffs and Pyramid Point, to limit large crowds from gathering on warm spring days during the coronavirus pandemic.
Even as our communities, our society, shut down, as we stay at home and socially distance ourselves, these essential workers of Leelanau County show up every day and walk to the front lines—to fight for us in this world war against a murderous pandemic. We honor them, our Leelanau Essentials.
Social distancing in northwest Michigan during the coronavirus pandemic appears to be working, Lisa Peacock, health officer with the Benzie Leelanau District Health Department and the Health Department of Northwest Michigan, told community health partners and journalists during a conference call on Wednesday, April 1.
The Empire Asparagus Festival—originally scheduled for May 15-16 in downtown Empire—has been canceled, festival organizer Paul Skinner told the Glen Arbor Sun. Other popular Leelanau County events have postponed until the fall. The Cedar Polka Festival will be moved from mid-June to September 17-20, 2020.
The paint on the parking lot was barely dry when the first car pulled up to Empire’s public beach to check out the innovative new grid that keeps vehicles, and people, more than 10 feet apart at all times. Two miles south on M-22, Harry Norconk was replanting his asparagus seeds six feet apart so the green spears won’t spread pathogens once they shoot out of the ground in mid-May.
The Grand Traverse County Health Department announces two additional positive COVID-19 cases, bringing the countywide total to seven. Among the two latest cases, community acquired transmission was determined to be a factor in one case.