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Burdickville Boys celebrate John Prine with ode “Six Feet Away”

Here in Burdickville on Glen Lake, Mike Binsfeld was crushed by the news of John Prine’s death one year ago today. Both of Binsfeld’s daughters had just recovered from COVID, Nancy in Colorado and Molly in California, and Mike and his wife Mindy were just emerging from the trauma of not being able to travel to their sick children because of the lockdown and not knowing just why they were sick nor how dangerous the disease could be. Mike woke up the next day with a song sliding around in his head, and so now we have his moving ode to John Prine called “Six Feet Away.”

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Leelanau League of Women Voters discusses impact of COVID-19 on agriculture

The League of Women Voters Leelanau County invites the public to participate in a virtual educational forum, “The Impact of COVID-19 on Agriculture in Leelanau County” on Wednesday, April 7 at noon.

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“If she hadn’t been in the car, she would be alive today” — COVID-19 claims 30-year-old Native American

A few days before she died of the Coronavirus on November 23, Maryan Rochel Petoskey sat up in her bed on the COVID-19 ward at Munson Medical Center in Traverse City and looked in both directions. Through a clear greyish tarp that separated her from others, Maryan told her sister Donna that she could see rows and rows of beds on either side. A member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who lived on the Peshawbestown reservation, Maryan Rochel Petoskey was 30 years young. She was the third victim of COVID-19 in Leelanau County, and the first person under age 60 to die of the pandemic.

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A Game Without Rules: Harbor House and VI Grill manage the pandemic

“The game is next week, but you don’t know the rules,” Richard Roberts reflected on running his Leelanau County businesses through the COVID-19 pandemic. Roberts owns The Harbor House in Leland, co-owns the county’s oldest, continually operated restaurant, the Village Inn in Suttons Bay—most commonly known as the VI Grill, runs real estate through Harbor House Properties LLC, and owns SAM Equities LLC in Lake Leelanau, a former restaurant currently available for rent.

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Benzie-Leelanau Health Department reports daily record 34 COVID cases

The Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department has reported a daily record 34 new cases of COVID-19 for Wednesday, Nov. 18. Active COVID-19 cases (142 in Leelanau County; 125 in Benzie County) now top the number of recovered cases (134 in Leelanau; 99 in Benzie) — a sign of the pandemic’s rapid community spread.

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Benzie-Leelanau Health Department reports single-day record 20 new COVID cases Thursday

Today, the Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department reports a single-day record 20 new COVID-19 cases— 11 in Leelanau County and 9 in Benzie County. Yesterday the Health Department reported 11 cases—8 in Leelanau and 3 in Benzie.

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Rapid COVID spread forces Glen Lake to go virtual until Thanksgiving

Multiple COVID-19 cases among parents of students at Glen Lake Community Schools has prompted the district to cease face-to-face learning until after Thanksgiving, superintendent Jon Hoover told the Glen Arbor Sun today. Students will return on Monday, November 30. As many as 45 Glen Lake high school students didn’t show up for classes today, suggesting how widely COVID has spread among the school community.

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COVID positive case prompts Glen Lake to close fourth grade, kindergarten classes

One COVID-19-positive test of a staff member at Glen Lake Community Schools has prompted the school to temporarily close three sections of Fourth Grade and one section of Kindergarten, superintendent Jon Hoover told the Glen Arbor Sun today. The school learned of the case at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday.

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Glen Lake School purifies air during COVID with bipolar ionization filters

Glen Lake School is one of the first schools in the region to use innovative, bipolar ionization filters in its ventilation systems to reduce the risk of COVID-19 spreading inside the building.

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Leelanau School staff, students test negative for COVID

The Leelanau School, the private boarding school just north of Glen Arbor, reported in a media release today that no new COVID-19 cases have been found among the student body and staff.

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