Soccer-crazed England narrowly missed “bringing it home” and winning its first Euro Cup since 1966—after losing on penalty kicks to Italy on July 11—but Britain will nab a star Glen Lake Laker to suit up and play in goal this fall. Becca Nowicki, the star keeper who graduated this spring from Glen Lake High School, will play soccer in England this coming fall. Nowicki was courted by Macclesfield FC International Academy, which is based in Preston, north of Manchester.
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.
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.
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.
Glen Lake Community Schools held a belated high school graduation ceremony on Saturday, June 27, for 56 graduates. We spoke with graduate Margot Hazael-Massieux, whose parents Guillaume and Brooke own La Bêcasse restaurant, about what it was like to lose the last three months of her high school experience, how she dealt with social distancing, and what’s next for the fall.
A series of coincidences culminated in an unexpected field trip for two Glen Lake eighth graders on June 9. The boys had been researching Civil War veteran Edmund Trumbull, who is buried at the Glen Arbor Township Cemetery. In late May, they learned that the veteran’s home is currently owned by Lakers basketball coach Don Miller and his wife, Sandy. The two are students of Melissa Okerlund, who teaches history in Miller’s old classroom. Okerlund arranged for them to visit the house in early June, where they met Trumbull descendant Dede DeWitt deManigold, a former student of Miller’s.
Glen Lake Community Schools has been delivering free breakfasts and lunches to families of its students who qualify for free- or reduced-price meals ever since schools closed on March 16.
Glen Lake Community Schools is delivering free breakfasts and lunches to families of its students who qualify for free- or reduced-price meals during the statewide school shutdown. According to superintendent secretary Bethany Pousho, this includes approximately 25% of Glen Lake’s 200 students.
Join friends and neighbors for the annual Glen Lake Winterfest on Presidents Day Weekend: Saturday, February 15. Festivities include a perch fishing contest and chili cook-off.
On Saturday, November 23, an unprecedented event occurred in Glen Arbor. An old abandoned graveyard came alive again, thanks to some very caring folks from here and from Interlochen.