The Leelanau Enterprise has a feature on the recent Michigan Odyssey of the Mind Regional Competition and how Leelanau teams fared. Competing were teams from Glen Lake, Leland, Pathfinder and St. Mary schools. The Glen Lake Division II team solving a problem titled took third place in “The Wonderful Muses” and both of Leland’s “Tee […]
Yesterday at The Leland Report Molly Grosvenor wrote: This morning George Firestone Grosvenor, our Bumpa, passed away. He went peacefully in the company of his children and with the kind assistance of all the great people at Effie’s Place. This truly marks the end of an era. I know that many people have a story […]
John Levanen took this photo titled If you’re bored on a Sunday afternoon in Leelanau County… It demonstrates the time-honored tradition of “berging” down the Carp River in Leland from North Lake Leelanau to a stopping point that is curiously close to the Blue Bird. Keith Burnham over at The Leland Report has complete coverage […]
The Leelanau Enterprise has a pair of articles about theater productions at Leelanau schools this weekend. Suttons Bay students will stage the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I on Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. They say “The King and I is set in the 1860s around the […]
There will be an auction at the former Courthouse & County Office buildings in Leland this Saturday (Mar 15) at 10 AM. The location is 301 Cedar Street and items include 50 Herman Miller Modular Workstation Systems (many with shelving) numerous chairs, conference tables, miscellaneous office furniture, courtroom furnishings, including theater-style seating, hand-crank expanding file […]
Frost on the Narrows by greencottage News from the Week Features this week included our new March 2008 page where you can post comments about events, news, the weather, or whatever you’re thinking about. We also had the announcement of the Leelanau Conservation District Plant & Seedling Sale, took a look at the New Great […]
The photo is by Chris Burda, part of his Fishtown Docks photo gallery (view slideshow). The University of Michigan’s Animal Diversity Web’s entry for the Mute Swan (cygnus olor) includes photos and information and begins: Mute swans are large birds, measuring 144 to 158 cm. The wingspan is 2 to 2.5 meters. The two sexes […]
March 12 The Record-Eagle has a feature on Leland’s 72-45 loss at the hands of Muskegon West Michigan Christian in the Class D quarterfinal: “I thought we were playing some of our best ball as of late, but we just did not get it going tonight. I give West Michigan Christian credit. They took us […]
Jim posted this great photo of the first light of day at Brunson Barn in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore: The Brunson Barn is on Thoreson Road about one mile west of M-22 where Thorson Road turns south. This structure is all that remains of the Joseph and Margaret Brunson farm. Mrs. Brunson was […]
The Muskegon Chronicle reports that the Sleeping Bear Dunes are going to get a little envelope time in 2008 with the release of the latest Nature of America educational series. It was painted by artist John Dawson of Hilo, HI under the art direction of Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, MD (kind of a curious combination […]
The Enterprise reports that the Leelanau Conservation District’s annual seedling and plant sale is now underway. The sale is a fundraiser where: Selections are available in quantities ranging from five conifers or deciduous transplants, to thousands of seedlings. Also available are wildlife shrubs, groundcovers, native grasses, ferns and wildflowers. “With the variety of species available, […]
I’ve been thinking that it would be nice to have a place where people can post a little note about a cool event, mention something interesting in the news or natural world or just say something about the weather. Here’s our first for March of 2008 and we’ll post a new one each month! The […]