The Leelanau Peninsula High School (LPHS), the alternative education facility for county students in Lake Leelanau for more than 10 years, will close at the end of the school year.
Suttons Bay and Glen Lake boards of education voted unanimously Monday in separate meetings to send their “alternative” education students to Traverse City High School, [...]
The Leelanau County Board of Commissioners and the Leland Township Board are at each other again — and their current fight could interfere with the sale of the county's courthouse property in Leland.
The county board this week decided that Leelanau County should file suit against Leland Township over the status of a 10,000-square-foot portion of [...]
During a closed session held under questionable circumstances, the Leelanau County Board of Commissioners apparently decided this week that the county will accept a federal mediator's determination regarding a fired Leelanau County sheriff's deputy.
In an opinion issued Feb. 23, the mediator determined that Deputy Bruce Beeker was fired last year by Sheriff Mike Oltersdorf without [...]
Following a series of special meetings last week, the Suttons Bay and Bingham township boards each adopted ballot language asking voters on May 8 to reconsider the decision a solid majority of voters made on Feb. 27.
During the February election, voters in both townships soundly rejected a 2.3-mill property tax levy to pay for operations [...]
Decision aids new Omena bar and Leelanau Cellars
Knot, Just a Bar received some good news from the Leelanau Township Board Tuesday night.
At the meeting, the board approved 4-0, with supervisor James Neve absent, a resolution of support for its request to sell Leelanau Cellars wine “out the door” as part of its restaurant and bar [...]
Unbeaten and unfazed.
That pretty much characterizes the Bellaire basketball team that ended Leland's season Tuesday night with a 67-47 victory in the first game of a Class D Regional at Traverse City Central High School.
"Even when we got ahead early – like we did tonight and the other time we played them this year – [...]
With Leland and Buckley leaving the Cherryland Conference to join the Northwest Conference, the Northport Board of Education is considering whether it should follow suit for the 2008-09 season.
At its meeting Thursday, March 8, Northport athletic director and boys’ varsity soccer coach Marshal Collins Jr. presented the recommendations of a school sports’ committee. The departure [...]
It was checkmate early for Marcus Whittaker's former classmates.
"I use to play with these guys, so that meant something to me," said Whittaker after Leland dismantled Traverse City Christian Friday, 80-32, to earn its first District Class D title in three seasons.
The Comets had twice beaten Christian this season, but their last win came by [...]
Leland volleyball coach Laurie Glass sees parallels between the 2007 Comets and her 2003 squad.
Both teams competed after the previous year’s team won a state championship. Both teams also had to deal with the loss of key players.
Unfortunately for this year’s Comets, they mirrored the 2003 squad’s result as well: a loss in the Class [...]
For two straight years, Kelsey Wick had the privilege of competing in the Class C semifinals as part of the Suttons Bay volleyball team.
Wick said she was looking forward to making a third consecutive trip to the semis today, and perhaps getting past that obstacle and into the state finals. Iron Mountain, however, ended the [...]
