Glen Lake School Board trustee Jeff Smith has written an excellent letter to the Free Press regarding education funding inequities in Michigan that everyone should read. Consider that this year the state will pay my school district in northern Michigan about $7,000 to educate my daughter, while at the same time, Birmingham’s school district, between […]
The Traverse City Beach Bums open their inaugural season at Weurfel Park (located at Chums Village business park off U.S. 31 south of Traverse City) this week and the Record-Eagle has a nice feature introducing you to the baseball team and the ballpark. The Wednesday opener culminates almost six years of plans and preparation by […]
The Leelanau Enterprise reports that Sugar Loaf Development L.C.C. partners Brian Sculthorp and Ed Fleis, owners of the two golf courses, sewer plant and other properties surrounding Sugar Loaf Resort have a few thoughts to share about redevelopment plans unveiled recently by the resort’s owner, Kate Wickstrom. According to the Enterprise: …the partners are “disappointed […]
Sleeping Bear Dunes Overlook, photo by Mark Houston Mark Houston’s 360Michigan features a staggering number of 360 degree panoramas from all over Michigan. These images allow you to spin in every direction and if you’ve never experienced one, you owe it to yourself to check these out! The photo above is a section of a […]
The Week’s Weather Cherry blossoms pretty much finished up but the lilacs showed up and are now in bloom. I’ve seen a ton of piliated woodpeckers this spring including a mating pair the other evening. Thursday, May 11, 2006: Cloudy, heavy rain & low 50s (57Ëš/45Ëš) Friday, May 12, 2006: Cloudy, some rain & 40s […]
The TC record-Eagle reports that Leland senior Alisha Glass was honored as the Michigan Female Athlete of the Year by the Detroit Athletic Club in a ceremony Monday night. The award is designed to honor both athletic performance and scholarship and has been won by such athletes as Shane Battier and Drew Henson. Glass helped […]
The Traverse City Record-Eagle has another great multimedia feature by Taylor Sipe about Traverse City East Junior High tech-ed teacher Scott Diment. Diment, a skateboarder for about 30 years, is working with Paul Schmitt of skateboard company PS Stix in developing a curriculum and pilot program called CreateAskate that encourages students to apply math and […]
The public is invited to a book signing and reception on Tuesday, May 16th at the Hagerty Center in Traverse City from 6-8:30 PM featuring Governor Milliken and the author of the Milliken biography Dave Dempsey. Appetizers will be served and complimentary wine will be provided by the vintners of Leelanau and Old Mission Peninsulas. […]
The Leelanau Enterprise takes a detailed look at plans for how owner Kate Wickstrom and TC developer Doug Mansfield hope to transform Sugar Loaf Resort into the Midwest’s premiere “year-round board sport destination”. The conceptual plan presented by Mansfield last week contains eight inter-related development projects on the 352-acre Sugar Loaf Resort property. Mansfield said […]
Our latest background is a photo of a Leelanau cherry orchard near St. Wenceslaus taken on May 10, 2006. It’s kind of a whopper in terms of file size. 800 x 600 [214k] 1024 x 768 [331k] Laptop [394k] Widescreen [491k]
Students from Leland Public School and St Mary School of Lake Leelanau will team up to present Seussical, a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza that brings to life favorite Dr. Seuss characters from at least 15 of his books on May 12-14 and May 19-21 at the Leland Public School School Performing Arts Center in Leland. […]
Cherry blossoms bloomed and began to fade, all in one week. It also looks like we may have LILACS in bloom as early as this weekend (earliest I can remember), and we moved past black morels to white/blonde morels. News from the Week The week’s top story was news that the Leelanau Conservancy is seeking […]