A test to determine what might have caused a sinkhole to form immediately adjacent to the Leland Dam following heavy rains this spring couldn’t have gone any more smoothly or had any better result, according to Leelanau County Drain Commissioner Steve Christensen.

Nonetheless, many of the dozen-or-so spectators who showed up at the dam to witness [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Sinkhole test called productive, but sight-seers leave disappointed”, url: “http://www.leelanaunews.com/blog/2008/07/31/sinkhole-test-called-productive-but-sight-seers-leave-disappointed/” });

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The 2008 Dunegrass and Blues Festival will go on as scheduled following a decision Tuesday afternoon from Judge Thomas G. Power not to issue an emergency temporary restraining order that would have essentially canceled the event.

In 13th Circuit Court, Power denied a request by Eric and Ann Arnold of Empire to issue an emergency temporary [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Judge denies couple's request; Dunegrass is a go as scheduled”, url: “http://www.leelanaunews.com/blog/2008/07/31/8059/” });

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Measures target operations, fire and rescue.
Leelanau Township voters will have two millage renewals to consider on the Aug. 5 Primary Election ballot.

The first is a .4641-mill request for additional general fund operations; the second is a 2.2-mill request for the township’s fire and Emergency Medical Services (EMS). If approved by voters, the general fund millage [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Election 2008 - 2 millage requests on Leelanau Twp. ballot”, url: “http://www.leelanaunews.com/blog/2008/07/31/election-2008-2-millage-requests-on-leelanau-twp-ballot/” });

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A recap of races, millage requests in Tuesday's Primary.
Leelanau voters will go to the polls Tuesday to decide the fate of everything from county millage requests to the recall of a school board member.

About 18,600 voters are registered and eligible to participate in the Primary election, which will feature a “first.”
“This is the first time [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Election 2008 - What's on Tuesday's ballot”, url: “http://www.leelanaunews.com/blog/2008/07/31/election-2008-whats-on-tuesdays-ballot/” });

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The Northport Board of Education will interview two candidates for the interim superintendent position on Monday night.

At a special meeting held July 28, the board went into closed session to review four applications for the interim position. According to board president Denise Branch, the board went into closed session at the request of the applicants.
After [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Interviews set for 2 interim Northport school chief hopefuls”, url: “http://www.leelanaunews.com/blog/2008/07/31/interviews-set-for-2-interim-northport-school-chief-hopefuls/” });

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The Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes will host a spaghetti dinner at Cherry Republic in Glen Arbor next Wednesday, Aug. 6, from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

The public is invited. The cost of a salad, spaghetti with Cherry Republic's cherry pasta sauce, bread, drinks and cherry pie will be $12 for adults and $6 for [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Sleeping Bear group plans spaghetti meal”, url: “http://www.leelanaunews.com/blog/2008/07/31/sleeping-bear-group-plans-spaghetti-meal/” });

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Four Leelanau Conservancy events will be held in the coming week.

Docents Ann McInnis and Marsha Buehler will lead a hike from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday around the Jeff Lamont Preserve in northern Leelanau Township. Participants will have an opportunity to discover a part of Leelanau that has been under private ownership and not open [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “4 hikes slated at natural areas, preserves”, url: “http://www.leelanaunews.com/blog/2008/07/31/4-hikes-slated-at-natural-areas-preserves/” });

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The Tribal Council of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians on Wednesday released a listing of the semi-annual "two-percent" casino revenue payments the tribe is required to make to local units of government under a 1993 federal court consent decree.

Representing two-percent of the video gaming revenue for the past six months from [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “'two-percent' grant recipients identified”, url: “http://www.leelanaunews.com/blog/2008/07/31/two-percent-grant-recipients-identified/” });

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Two women were taken to the hospital for injuries they received in a motorcycle-bicycle accident Sunday afternoon.

According to Undersheriff Scott L. Wooters, Amberly L. Cooper, 26, of Pisgah Forest, N.C., was traveling north on a bicycle on M-22 by Overby Road Sunday afternoon when she turned into the path of a motorcycle. Two people on [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Bicycle-motorcycle crash leaves 2 hurt”, url: “http://www.leelanaunews.com/blog/2008/07/30/bicycle-motorcycle-crash-leaves-2-hurt/” });

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Brilliant Books of Suttons Bay has been asked to provide the book stall for the Traverse City Film Festival this week.

"This is a tremendous honor for our little store," owner Peter Makin said. "We've only been in business since December."
Film festival founder Michael Moore tapped Makin’s store to set up shop in the City Opera [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “S-B bookstore has role in T-C Film Festival”, url: “http://www.leelanaunews.com/blog/2008/07/30/s-b-bookstore-has-role-in-t-c-film-festival/” });

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