Glen Noonan, a Leelanau County Road Commission member since the 1970s, did his part during the past year to keep Road Commission workers busy in Kasson Township.
Noonan made a $20,000 donation to the township, paying most of a $25,000 improvement project to make passable parts of an unpaved county road leading to Armstrong Lake. The [...]
Dan Scripps of Northport, the Democratic challenger for the 101st District State House seat in the November 2006 General Election, is now working for the Leelanau Conservancy on farmland preservation issues.
Although the Leelanau County Sheriff's Office accounts for the largest share of the county's overall budget, many taxpayers and some county officials may be unaware of how much revenue is generated by the department, according to Sheriff Mike Oltersdorf.
Budget plan gets little comment; officials get raises
A $60,000 restoration project involving the Woolsey Memorial Airport terminal building tops Leelanau Township’s $1,734,684 12-fund budget for 2007-08.
Glen Lake Middle School and the Empire Lions Club have announced that Leanne Bregni and Simon Koda as the Students of the Month for January and February.
This could be the last season competitive tennis is played in county schools in the spring, or any other season for that matter.
That was Leland tennis coach Ed Wodek’s prediction in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to deny a request by the Michigan High School Athletic Association to hear the case over [...]
Craig and Carol Stallman of Suttons Bay have announced the birth of another granddaughter.
Avery Payton was born to Kyle and Stephanie Stallman on March 20 at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak. She weighed four pounds 13 ounces and was 19 inches long.
Avery joins her big sister Paige at home in Novi. Maternal grandparents [...]
Ryan DeFour will have a hard time topping his debut as coach of the Suttons Bay cooperative soccer team. But he'll try.
He and his wife had a baby boy, Logan, the day after his team captured the Regional crown in 2006 and advanced to the state semifinals before bowing out to event champion Hudsonville Unity [...]
1984-2007
William Walter Buchan
Memorial services will be held at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 10, at the Fellowship Church, 2555 Garfield Rd. in Traverse City, for William “Billy” Walter Buchan of Traverse City who died March 31. He was 22.
He was born Dec. 21, 1984. Surviving are his mother, Cindy (Ott) Buchan of Maple City, [...]
Officials at Suttons Bay Public Schools have narrowed a pool of 58 candidates for the position of high school principal to eight and will conduct public interviews beginning next week, according to superintendent Mike Murray.