A concert featuring Seth Bernard and Daisy May will be held next Saturday (Feb 24) at the Old Art Building in Leland. Seth & May are well known to Michigan music fans and play original songs on acoustic guitar and violin. You can learn more about Seth & Daisy May at their web site and […]
All this “snow, wind and teens” has me looking south, to Spring Training with the Detroit Tigers in Lakeland, Florida. Head over to Absolute Michigan for a whole lot of preview and if you make the journey to Lakeland, drop me a line or postcard … or take me along if you are feeling particularly […]
Here’s a (belated) announcement of a Michigan food products trade show in the Silvertree Deli gallery space from 10 AM until 4 PM TOMORROW (Tuesday, Feb 13). The show is open to members of the restaurant and specialty store industry from 10-2 PM and to the general public from 2-4 PM. The products are all […]
Winterfest photos from Ryan Romeike, Andy McFarlane and Jim Sorbie.
The annual TC Kite Derby will be held next weekend (Feb 16-18). The likely location will be at the Bingham access on South Lake Leelanau (most likely, but it depends on wind). There will be a Free-Ride Session at the Event site from 2-5 PM on Friday. On saturday, GPS speed runs & freestyle exhibition […]
Platte River by Jim Sorbie (part of his great Winter in Leelanau set) News from the Week The week’s top story was a report that the former owners of the King’s Challenge golf course (adjacent to Sugar Loaf) are suing the current owners (Sugar Loaf Development LLC) to foreclose. I think I probably speak for […]
The annual Empire Winterfest will be held this Friday through Sunday (Feb 9-11). Highlights include Friday night bonfire and ice skating on South Bar Lake, kids games at noon on Saturday followed by the legendary Polar Bear Dip, a potluck Saturday night followed by live, coffeehouse-style entertainment, the Lions Pancake Breakfast at the Township Hall […]
Yesterday the Traverse City Business News reported that the former owners of the King’s Challenge golf course are suing Sugar Loaf Development LLC to foreclose. The investment group, headed by John D. Sills and his SJS Development Co., said the new owners failed to make a required payment of $12,500 on Dec. 5 and owe […]
It’s come to our attention that folks might not be following along with how we’re doing the whole Leelanau backgrounds/wallpaper and photo thing these days. For 8 years we posted them every so often on our Leelanau Backgrounds Page. Now, with the ability to take photos at such high resolutions and with the photo hosting […]
I would like to apologize for missing a few days of news and the fact that our newsletter has been late. We have been spending some time on learning how to do some new and (in my opinion at least) exciting things. One of these was unveiled today over on Absolute Michigan. It is an […]
Photo credit: January Shore by Andy McFarlane. News from the Week The week’s top story was the unveiling of the new logo and marketing campaign for the cherry industry. The slogan is “Cherries. Not just another berry.” and the new brand was designed for the Lansing-based Cherry Marketing Institute by “Got Milk” creator Jeff Manning. […]
Metro Times Detroit has a brief review of Good Harbor Golden from Charles Psenka’s Leelanau Brewing Company: Michigan has lots of things: seasons, snowmobile trails, smokestacks, raccoons, water, artisan-brewed beer. We prefer the latter for drinking, especially when it sports a head of lively foam over hazy gold and tastes of early season apples and […]