The Aug. 9 issue of the Glen Arbor Sun explored Michigan laws regarding public recreation and riparian (waterfront property owners’) rights on our inland lakes, rivers and streams. This article examines a few common misunderstandings relating to those confusing laws.
Empire Area Community Center revives popular annual event. The Labor Day Bridge Walk over the Glen Lake Narrows bridge (M-22, south of Glen Arbor) will be held at noon on Monday, Sept. 3.
Where do the rights of boaters end and those of riparians—who own inland waterfront property—begin? The laws can be confusing, and it appears that many, including some law enforcement officers, might be misinformed.
Meet Jorene Williams, Dejie-ann Smith, and Joycelyn Mclean, college students from Jamaica who are summering near the Sleeping Bear Dunes while they work the checkout registers at Anderson’s Market and Compass Rose Bakery.
Janice and Paul Richards are the new proprietors of Compass Rose Bakery, which opened on June 23 on the corner of M-22 and CR-677 (Benzonia Trail). They are confident that their gluten free baked goods — a product in high demand these days — will make a lasting impression in the community.
The first Glen Arbor Labor Day Bridge Walk took place in 1995. It is now a tradition that spans 20 years, so let us recall the reason why this annual walk across the M-22 Narrows Bridge came about.
“Where were you when . . .?” None of us will ever forget, and so now we will always trade our stories of this shared local tragedy. Waiting for Kelly McAllister to make me a malted, I gazed through the windows of McCahill’s Crossing Dairy Bar at the Glen Lake Narrows to see the eerie white cloud front race at terrific speed eastward across Little Glen Lake. Instantly the air was a greenish blue-black chaos of horizontal hail, thick rain, and leaves. Heedless of the danger, we gawked out the big windows at plunging power lines, frantic trees, and the growing line of cars refusing to cross the narrows and the bridge they couldn’t see because the lake was airborne. When the lights went out for good Kelly calmly called Consumers on her cell. We only had to inch around one tree as we drove homeward on Benzonia Trail minutes later. Countless others were not so lucky, and their stories have been our daily bread for a frantically memorable, strange, and communal cleanup of a week.
The lunch counter/ice cream shop south of the Glen Lake Narrows has a new owner once again. But this summer her caretakers may have the mojo, and the business strategy, to make the business succeed.
The Glen Arbor Township Board held a special meeting today to respond to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) regarding an application for a marina expansion on Big Glen Lake. On the Narrows Marina owner Conor McCahill seeks to add an additional 39 boat slips on a new dock, bringing the total to 46, as well as increase the moorings to 16.
Glen Arbor’s celebration of Uncle Sam’s 235th birthday kicks off with a 4 p.m. performance of patriotic music by the Northport Community Band on Saturday, July 2, at the Glen Arbor Athletic Club.