Leelanau County News and Latest Info
When the Suttons Bay Chamber of Commerce canceled the Labor Day Weekend Fireworks display last year, former Suttons Bay-Bingham Fire Chief Bill Calhoun decided to take action.
“We had them for three years and they went off pretty good. We had chosen La
A group of about 40 turned out Saturday for the annual meeting of the Citizens Council of Sleeping Bear Dunes.
On the agenda was the election of officers, and a presentation by Tom Ulrich, deputy Superintendent of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Though the unofficial end to summer this holiday weekend may give some people the blues, an inaugural music festival in Lake Leelanau is designed to keep the good times rolling.
In fact, the focus of the festival will be the blues. As in music.
The
Rachel Lichty of Leland was presented with an award from Zonta International District 15 last month.
Lichty received the 2010 Young Women in Public Affairs award on Aug. 20 at the Bluebird Restaurant in Leland. Her application was submitted by the Zont
This week we feature the restaurant blu in Glen Arbor. Chef and owner Randy Chamberlian received a nomination as “best chef” (Great Lakes region semifinalist) by the James Beard Foundation in 2010. Blu has also been the recipient of a variety of other a
Name: Dean Robb.
Town or township of residence: Village of Suttons Bay.
Resident of county since: “I’ve been here since 1971. I had a mid-life crisis, and I wanted to leave the city and get in the country, so I left Detroit and came up here.”
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Twelve-year-old Madison Easterday of Ann Arbor needed just three words to sum up her feelings about the trash that washed up on the beach in front of her family’s summer home in Leland Township Aug. 14-15
“It’s not cool,” she said.
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Visiting Leelanau County for the first time from Racine, Wis., Brenda Metz said she’d never been to an American Indian pow wow before last weekend – even though she knows that a little Chippewa blood courses through her veins.
“We’re in the area for my
Barring a miracle, Rapunzel may soon be letting down her golden hair in Leelanau County for the very last time.
Long a landmark along County Road 641 (S. Lake Leelanau Drive) at the former Veronica Valley Golf Course in Bingham Township, a steel turret
The band Leo Creek, which bills itself as deliverers of “soulful rock and roll infused with the wild natural spirit of northern Michigan,” will make an appearance as part of the Music in the Park series in Northport on Friday, Sept. 3.
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