The River Club in Glen Arbor received two prestigious awards last month from the Traverse City Tourism High Five Awards, which honor top professionals in the region’s hospitality industry. Award recipients (l-r) include River Club general manager Stephen Brotschul (Front of the House Award) and owners Gina and Mike Sheldon (Cheer & Leadership Award).
Broomstack Kitchen & Taphouse, the popular restaurant which shares a building with the Leelanau Curling Club, has new owners. The managing partners are: Alfiero Silveri, a restaurant veteran and sommelier who managed Trattoria Stella in Traverse City for more than 10 years; Stephen Brotschul, a former boarding school teacher who once worked at The Leelanau School (and is now president of the Glen Lake Chamber of Commerce), and Maria Leggett, an adjunct professor at Northwestern Michigan College’s Culinary Institute who runs the Grand Traverse Sauce Company. The group also hired Culinary Institute alum Rose Duggan as their executive chef.
For 20 years, Michael Buhler was co-editor of the Sun. He designed these pages, adeptly arranged advertisements like Tetris blocks, and placed the stories and photos before you. Mike helped turn this rag into an attractive, full-color newsprint magazine with ads and images that pop, and stories that educate—a true asset of our vibrant community. But no longer. Mike died suddenly on the afternoon of Thursday, Aug. 16. He leaves a void in our hearts the size of the Manitou Passage.