Sleeping Bear Dunes, January 2007
Sleeping Bear Dunes, January 2007, photo by O. Joy This photo is one of a great series of shots from January along the Lake Michigan shore!
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New Suttons Bay superintendent Mike Murray starts today
The Traverse City Record-Eagle has a feature on Suttons Bay School’s new superintendent Mike Murray. Murray starts today at Suttons Bay. Mr. Murray was a principal at Traverse City Central High School since 2003. Before that, he was principal at East Junior High for 11 years and spent 14 years in Germany teaching children of […]
Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a … cherry?
The Leelanau Enterprise reports that the new slogan and logo for the cherry industry has been unveiled. The slogan is “Cherries. Not just another berry.” and the new brand was designed at the behest of the Lansing-based Cherry Marketing Institute by Jeff Manning. Manning created the wildly successful “Got Milk?” campaign and explained that it […]
A whole lot of Leelanau tourism talk
The Leelanau Enterprise wonders if two separate discussions regarding the future of tourism in the Leelanau Peninsula may end in the same place. Business owners are flocking to privately sponsored “listening sessions” being held throughout Leelanau County, while a major discussion was held last week about the possibility of establishing a county-wide convention and visitors […]
Leelanau Almanac for the Week of January 18-24, 2006
Winter at the Lodge by Greg Jollife. Greg regularly posts some great photos from the Jolli Lodge and elsewhere in Leelanau on his blog – check it out! News from the Week The week’s top story was the sad news of the passing of Hanley Denning, founder of Safe Passages, an organization that seeks to […]
Annual Gift of Warmth Gala
The Northwest Michigan Human Services Agency’s annual Gift of Warmth Gala with been held this Saturday (Jan 27) at the Waterfront Conference Center in Traverse City. The event raises funds to help heat the homes of people in crisis in Leelanau, Grand Traverse and other Northern Michigan counties and features wine, hors d’oevres and chocolate […]
Safe Passages: The vision lives on…
In Death of a hero, yet her vision lives on, Jacob Wheeler of the Glen Arbor Sun writes: Hanley Denning, the founder of Safe Passage and a guiding light of hope for families in the Guatemala City garbage dump, was taken from us in a tragic car accident on the night of Thursday, January 18. […]
2% Casino money funding Leelanau projects
The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports that the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians will disperse just under $1 million to a variety of government and nonprofit agencies in the region as part of the state-mandated slot machine gambling agreement. In addtion to a $75,000 Government to Government Agreement payout to Leelanau County, funding […]
BayView Development may include office district
The Leelanau Enterprise reports that Suttons Bay village officials have been working to facilitate the possible creation of a new office district at the north end of the village where Phase Two of the BayView project is currently under construction. According to Suttons Bay village president Larry Mawby: “…all of the office space we currently […]
Leelanau Almanac for the Week of January 11 – 17, 2007
Empire Beach in Winter by Jim Sorbie Jim writes Empire Beach, not the chamber of commerce photo though! Taken a couple of years ago during a more “normal” winter. News from the Week The top story was news that the Glen Lake School district may join Northport in relying only on non-homestead property tax revenue […]
Traverse City signs mayors' emissions pact
The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports that Traverse City’s city commissioners voted unanimously to back the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. Participating cities pledge to cut back controllable emissions to 7% below 1990 levels by 2012. The city joins other Michigan cities including Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Marquette and the mayors of over 300 US cities […]
County seeking bids for government parcel in Leland
The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports that bids are due by January 31 for the purchase of the county government site in Leland. When county offices move in 2008 to the new governmental center under construction in Suttons Bay Township, the 2.5 acre site in the village of Leland will become available. The county has been […]