Leelanau Enterprise

Monthly Archives: February 2007

New site for boat launch scrapped

A proposal to relocate the boat launch from Lake Street to Glen Haven foundered, and is now sunk.
The Glen Arbor Township Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to abandon efforts to relocate its boat launch to Glen Haven. Action came after a recommendation from its boat relocation committee, chaired by Treasurer Terry Gretzema.

Deciding 'a very big deal'

Bingham Township residents this week appeared to be in one of three camps as voters geared up for a Feb. 27 election in which they will decide whether to recall township supervisor Robert W. Foster or allow him to remain in office
People speaking up at public meetings in recent months, those writing letters to the [...]

Referendum plan, suit cloud Sugar Loaf's future

The latest wrinkle in an as-yet unsuccessful effort to revive Sugar Loaf Resort doesn't involve the current status of a neighboring golf course so much as it involves the recent efforts of well-known Cleveland Township resident and former planning commission chairman Charles J. Ryant Jr.
The octogenarian activist – who has sued the township multiple times [...]

Problems mount at BayView

A Northport woman who purchased a new $729,000 waterfront condo in the BayView development in the Village of Suttons Bay may get her money back from the developer because of alleged building code violations in the project.
Meanwhile, the owner of a nursery that landscaped much of the BayView property has filed suit against the developer [...]

Board: Keep school open

Northport High School junior Betsy Shiner has one more year of school to complete before she moves on to college and embarks on the rest of her life.
It was the immediate future of her high school that prompted her to speak last week at the Northport Board of Education meeting.
“We live in a small town, [...]

Little interest in Leland courthouse plot

The owner of a lumber company in Bingham Township and a retired Leland dentist have offered to buy and develop Leelanau County’s 2.5-acre courthouse campus in Leland when the county seat moves to Suttons Bay Township next year.
Business partners Gene Kelly of Bingham Township and Dr. Jim Varley of Leland submitted the only bid to [...]

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