The Exposures Open House will be held Friday (Apr 25) at the Old Art Building. The event features an exhibition of work from this year’s Exposures magazine along with refreshments and music. The opening reception is on Friday, April 25 from 5 to 8 pm featuring original artwork, essay and poetry readings, hors d’oeuvres and […]
Leelanau’s Black Star Farms is enjoying an amazing run of good news. After being named one of bedandbreakfast.com’s Top Ten Eco-Friendly Inns, they were invited to provide a prize for Wheel of Fortune’s Green Week. The show will reportedly air tonight (Apr 11) at 7 PM on WPBN TV 7&4, and a contestant did win […]
All 4-H members, parents, families and the general public are invited to the annual 4-H Expo. It takes place at Suttons Bay School this Saturday (Apr 12). From 11 AM – 12:45 PM, there will be demonstrations by 4-H club members and each club is bringing a hands-on activity for visitors. The day includes lunch […]
Paraglider by nasunto News from the Week Articles this week included features on the Leelanau Peninsula Vintners Association’s annual Spring Sip & Savor event and the Leelanau Players upcoming presentation of Perfect Timing, news that the Leelanau Conservancy has added to its Cedar River parcel and a cool photo of the Manitou boats. We also […]
The Leelanau Peninsula Vintners Association’s annual Spring Sip & Savor trail event takes place May 3 & 4, 2008 and offers you an opportunity to taste a wine and food pairing selected especially by the each of the LPVA winemakers. The winemakers will be present in the tasting rooms all weekend to talk with you […]
The Leelanau Conservancy recently completed a purchase that will expand the protected areas along Victoria Creek (Cedar River) to a total of 300 acres with over two miles of Lake Leelanau shoreline and connecting channels along the waterways within the Solon Swamp wetland complex (scroll down and click the small map to view the protected […]
This photo is part of Joe Burda’s Fishtown set (slideshow) and also a part of the Manitou Islands group on Flickr. And yes, it’s wallpaper-sized!
The Leelanau Enterprise reports that the Leelanau Players will present Perfect Timing by Kristi Kane at the Old Art Building in Leland. Perfect Timing follows the trials and tribulations of an art critic, her frightening German maid and her refreshingly sane secretary. The comedy bubbles over with an assortment of intruders, passersby and drop-ins accompanied […]
Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore by anttler News from the Week The top story of the week was obviously the startling sale of Sugar Loaf … to aliens, which of course took place on April 1st. Sources close to the deal were heard to remark “somebody take that guy’s copy of Photoshop away”. We had a […]
Every month we add a page where you can make your observations about what’s happening in Leelanau & Traverse City, comment on news we might not cover, talk about what’s growing and whatever else you’re thinking about. April began with Mother Nature’s own April Fools captured by Keith Burnham and some startling news about Sugar […]
Sugar Loaf area resident Bryan Poirier – who was up late practicing for the upcoming New Third Coast tour opening for Neil Young – was startled Sunday night to see “a bunch of lights zooming up and down the face of the mountain, but I just figured it was Jim Rennie ‘sleep-grooming’ again.” Rennie, another […]
We have started on a new map of Leelanau County and the nearby area. After looking at the available options, we decided to build it using Google Maps. We’re adding short entries on the map that link to longer entries in our Leelanau Blog that will be posted under the map category and feature photos […]