Top Glen Arbor Sun stories of 2012
LVR Realty’s Ranae Ihme legs out a second-place finish at the M-22 Challenge in June.
2012 yielded record tourism and profits for businesses in Glen Arbor and Leelanau County. But this was also a year of extreme (and sometimes unseasonable) snowstorms, ruined cherry crops, new bike trails, new businesses opening their doors, shipwrecks discovered, and the welcome news that our county is the second healthiest in the entire United States!
Before ringing in the new year, we took the time to list the Glen Arbor Sun‘s top stories of 2012 — both our editors’ favorites and our most read stories online. Enjoy, and see you in 2013!
Top 10 stories, editors’ picks
• Busiest … summer … ever — Jacob Wheeler, Sept. 20
• Glen Noonan: for the love of the land — Josephine Arrowood, Sept. 20
• Buckets of Rain and the greening of Detroit — Norm Wheeler, August 30
• Taro Yamasaki’s lessons behind the lens — Josephine Arrowood, August 30
• Letters from Romania, London, Istanbul, Amsterdam, San Francisco — Kathleen Stocking
• What’s in a name? Meet Barbara — Karen Soderholm, July 26
• Will Climate Change kill the Michigan cherry? — Jacob Wheeler, July 26
• Japanese tsunami survivor starts over at Leelanau School — Norm Wheeler, Sept. 20
• Grand old flag tradition continues at Old Settlers on July Fourth — Josephine Arrowood, June 28
• New Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail empowers young and old, enabled and disabled — Jacob Wheeler, June 14
Top 10 stories, by online views
1, Leelanau is third healthiest county in nation
2, Biking the nearly complete Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail
3, New in town: a cyclery, electric bikes, tie-dye, nautical wear and Asian Carp
4, Israeli military stops Run Across Palestine on Day 1
5, Will On the Narrows Marina expand on Big Glen Lake?
6, Country bird nests in the city
8, What Northern Michiganders learned from the great 2012 snowstorm
