Frozen Millions I by Andy McFarlane. News from the Week The top story for the week was volleyball (where Leland was bounced in regionals and Suttons Bay in bowed out in the quarterfinals) and basketball (where Leland fell in regionals). Get all the details! Other stories included a Leelanau Tourism Collaborative update (sort of) and […]
Iron Mountain became the first Upper Peninsula team to earn a trip to the Class C state semifinals by battling past Suttons Bay 27-25, 25-14, 14-25, 20-25, 15-10. Suttons Bay coach Mike Kelly said. “I’m proud of my girls. They went down 2-0 and played like champions. The last game they played their hearts out, […]
There is an update (of sorts) on the status of the Leelanau Peninsula Tourism Collaborative. The short of it is that the surveys are not yet compiled (soon though!) and that (contrary to word on the street) there have been no other developments! Read more at leelanau.com/tourism. (larger version of this photo)
The Suttons Bay volleyball team captured the regional volleyball trophy for the 3rd year in a row. They beat Rogers City 25-10, 25-16, 12-25, 25-23 in the semifinal and then bounced back after losing the opener to Kingsley 20-25 to take the match 25-15, 25-13, 25-10. They take a 54-12-2 record into a Tuesday quarterfinal […]
Tickets are currently on sale for Suttons Bay School’s all school production of The Music Man. Performance times are March 23rd and 24th at 7:00 and March 25th at 2:00 p.m. Tickets will be for reserved seating only, so ordering tickets early is recommended in order to procure the best seats. Tickets are $10 for […]
From the “It’s our horn, and we’re going to blow it” category comes news that the web site for the Inland Seas Education Association has been selected as the Great Lakes Information Network’s March 2007 Site of the Month. I’ll let them tell it: The Great Lakes Information Network (GLIN) announced today that the Inland […]
Ice Boats III by Andy McFarlane. News from the Week As is normal this time of year, high school volleyball and basketball tournaments are the lead stories. In volleyball action, Suttons Bay and Leland moved on to Saturday’s Class C & D volleyball regionals. In hoops, Leland is the sole county survivor and plays Traverse […]
The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports that Suttons Bay fell to Kalkaska by a score of 55-44 and then Kingsley defeated Glen Lake 59-40 in Class C District action. In the Class D district opener at Leland, the host Comets turned it on in the 4th quarter to defeat two-time defending district champion Northport 62-50. According […]
Kenneth E. Bull has established two funds to help support programs at the Northwest Michigan Horticultural Research Station and to provide annual scholarship money for area students pursuing a degree in horticulture at Michigan State University. The $26,000 gift will be used by the NW Michigan Horticultural Research Foundation as a challenge grant to raise […]
The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports that the Leland Lady Comets captured their 9th straight district volleyball crown. They cruised over Northport 25-16, 25-13, 25-11 and powered through the final 25-13, 25-21, 25-7 over Traverse City Christian. The Comets are 47-15-1 and will move on to the Class D regionals next Saturday at TC St. Francis. […]
Here’s a photo for you taken last week on Omena Bay – have a great weekend!
The Leelanau Enterprise reports that county schools are bracing for a mid-year cut in funding (though March or April on a June-June year is more than mid-year). Governor Granholm’s proposed budget preserved the increase in per-pupil funding promised to schools by the legislature last fall (which is also the number that they based their budgets […]