Tom and Juli Erdmann are the new owners of the Arbor School lofts in Glen Arbor’s historic schoolhouse across M-22 from the town hall. Both of the newly remodeled apartments sleep up to 6. The building was rebuilt in 1932 and in service as a school until 1967. Locals who attended the Glen Arbor school include longtime town hall custodian Leonard Thoreson, now 96. Thoreson remembered that students used to cross the street to the town hall in the afternoons to play basketball.
The Glen Arbor Athletic Club will soon open its doors to locals who want to trim down or beef up in the same historic two-room school house where students were once asked to listen up and jot down notes. Two couples, Paul and Marcia Walters and Terry and Linda Gretzema, who have summered here over the years and now consider themselves permanent locals, stumbled on the idea of opening an athletic club when they realized they wanted to stay active, somehow, during their golden retirement years up north. And what better way to keep the flabs at bay than by working those abs every morning.