More stringent requirements for requesting tribal "2-percent" money appear to have resulted in fewer such requests being considered by the Leelanau County Board of Commissioners.
A second lawsuit in as many weeks has been filed against the developer of the BayView condominiums in the Village of Suttons Bay.
Efforts to increase the population of Piping Plovers in the Great Lakes are paying off, at least in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
The Village of Northport will condemn property, if necessary, to proceed with its $15 million sewer project.
And it may need to do just that.
The Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay will monitor water quality at nine area beaches this summer, including three municipal beaches in Leelanau County.
Michelle McManus got an earful last fall at her family deer camp in Kalkaska County, and it wasn’t for drawing an inside straight.
The discussion involved proposed hunting and fishing fee increases. Most people she heard suffered from sticker shock.
“I sure know I heard about it at deer camp,” said state Sen. McManus (R-Lake Leelanau). “The [...]
Leelanau County's own Higher Grounds Trading Company – which bills itself as the only 100-percent fair trade and organic coffee company in Michigan – has outgrown its spaces in the county and will relocate permanently to Traverse City next month.