Down to the Lake by Mark Smith

Summer Road Construction Season Kicks Off in Leelanau

The Leelanau Road Commission just kicked off its biggest project of the year last week: a reconstruction of County Road 626.
Endangered Piping Plover Pair by JamesEyeViewPhotography

Gabby, the Oldest Plover is back home in Sleeping Bear!

GabbY, the oldest piping plover known on the Great Lakes has returned to Sleeping Bear Dunes for another year!

2025 Cheese Shanty Opening Day: Friday, April 18th!

The Village Cheese Shanty opens for the season TOMORROW, but they will there today from from 10-4 taking your orders over the phone!

Mark Lindsay shares The Soul of Sleeping Bear

Mark has released his first book, The Soul of Sleeping Bear. It’s a beautiful, coffee table book that blends gorgeous photography of the Sleeping Bear with writings on what these vistas can spark in your heart.
Not Today by Mark Smith

(not) Feeding America

Fox 17 West Michigan reports that Feeding America West Michigan has learned that the USDA has “paused” 32 truckloads of food scheduled to arrive from April to June.
Crystal River ... paddle day by Ken Scott Photography

Feds Freeze Leelanau Bridge Projects

The Leelanau Ticker reports that the federal funding freeze has already impacted Leelanau County road construction projects

Lake to Table with Carlson’s Fisheries

Explore the entire lake-to-table process of taking fish from Lake Michigan in Peshawbestown to Carlson's Fishery in Leland and all the way to a plate at the Cove!
Lake Michigan ... anticipation

Meteors & Moonbeams this Weekend!

EarthSky shares that since the radiant - the point in the sky from which the meteors appear to radiate - for the Geminid Meteor Shower rises in mid-evening, you can watch for these meteors all night long in the days before & after the evenings of December 13-14.
Open for Business? by Mark Smith

Winter is ready to rumble!

Yesterday afternoon the National Weather Service issued a Winter Storm Watch for Leelanau, Benzie, Grand Traverse & much of northern Michigan for 6+ inches of snow & high winds.
Twilight's Last Gleaming by Mark Smith

NOAA 2025 Winter Outlook calls for warmer, wetter winter for Leelanau

The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released their seasonal outlook for Winter 2024-2025
Night Sky Life over the Lake by Matt Kazmierski

Is that thing in my Northern Lights picture a UFO?

Here's a great app for determining whether those lights you are seeing in the sky are an aircraft, satellite, or something truly unidentified.
Leelanau County Building

Leelanau County Vote Tally Error Changes County Results

Leelanau County Clerk Michelle Crocker tells The Ticker that a batch of a few thousand early votes were not properly reported as the county populated vote totals for the public to view on election night.