Tomorrow night (Wednesday, October 3) there will be an Open House at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Visitor Center auditorium from 4-7 PM to comment and review the Port Oneida Environmental Assessment (EA), a document that describes and analyzes alternative locations for a visitor contact station and employee housing, along with alternative means of improving […]
This Sunday (Oct 7) beginning at 3 PM the Leelanau Outdoor Center on Port Oneida holds their Harvest Celebration and Scholarship Fundraising event. The fun starts at 3 PM with games on the lawn with Fuzz Foster and a chance to try the climbing tower. There’s also a lawn concert with New Third Coast, Norm […]
Photo: Ready for the picking by Andy McFarlane News from the Week Most of the news was again fall event listings, but there was a detailed report on the 2007 Tour de Leelanau that featured photos, results, video and a biker’s account of the race. In less than happy news, we also took a look […]
The area of this proposed sulfide mine is wide open, unpaved and unpowered. It is situated right in the middle of the largest undeveloped tract in all of Michigan. Its rivers and streams feed Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. What a terrible place for a mine. What a terrible threat to the Great Lakes. -Former […]
On Sunday, September 30th from 1-4 pm the Antique Appraisal Fair will be in full swing at the Suttons Bay Friendship Community Center (FCC) for the third consecutive year. At the FCC Antique Appraisal Fair, one can learn about the history and value of a piece of antique furniture, jewelry, china, pottery, silverware, postcard, fishing […]
The 2007 Leelanau County CROP Walk will be held this Sunday (Sep 23) at 2 PM at the Omena Presbyterian Church. The CROP Walk (CROP: Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty) supports many causes around the world. 25% of all the proceeds raised at the walk come back to help procure food for the Leelanau Christian […]
Garrett Peltonen (Priority Health) won the men’s race of the Tour de Leelanau with a time of 4:21:03. He finished just 18 seconds ahead of Ryan Roth (Kelly Benefit Strategies) and Scott Zwanski (Priority Health) finished third. In the women’s race, Tina Pic (Priority Health) took the medal with a time of 3:17:58, defeating Laura […]
Empire Bluffs by williger News from the Week Once again the news was mostly events: the TC Downtown art walk, Little Artshram Harvest Festival Benefit and the Leelanau State Park Fall Harvest Festival. Bridging the gap between event and feature was the announcement of A Celebration of the Life & Times of Mike Vanderberg that […]
On Sunday (September 30, 2007) there will be a celebration honoring the memory of Empire resident and Sleeping Bear Dunegrass & Blues Festival founder Mike Vanderberg. The daylong event features live music at Johnson Park from noon – 10 PM from Dunegrass regulars including 3rd Coast, Cabin Fever, The Corvairs, Song of the Lakes, Beach […]
The Leelanau Enterprise had an interesting article last week that chronicled early aviation in Leelanau County that included the story of Northport’s Clinton Woosley: Young Woolsey was part of a group of American aviators chosen to participate on a “Good Will Flight†to South America in 1926. Unfortunately, Woolsey’s plane crashed, and he and his […]
Leelanau State Park will be holding a “GO-Get Outdoors” Fall Harvest Festival this Saturday (September 22). The activities will include displays on beekeeping, fruit growing and how to make maple syrup. There will also be other agricultural and old-fashioned crafts. Children will be able to make their own candles and there will be storytelling for […]
The Little Artshram invites you to a Harvest Festival benefit on Saturday, September 22 from 1 to 7 PM at the Grand Traverse Commons Village and the Community Gardens & Historic Barns. The fee is $5 per person, $20 family and the day features music, merry-making and dancing with Seth Bernard & Daisy May, Harriet […]