At this week in Leelanau County's history
June 21, 2007 issue

5 YEARS AGO

JUNE 20, 2002

Empire Township voters Tuesday decided to keep a Zoning Ordinance amendment that allows model airplane flying with restrictions in the townships Agricultural Residential district.
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Rumors have circulated that Sugar Loaf owner Remo Polselli has managed to find an investor who may bail him out of his delinquent $4 million loan on Sugar Loaf from Huntington National Bank.

10 YEARS AGO

JUNE 19, 1997

Additional criminal charges are pending against a Traverse City man who police say attempted suicide in a County Jail cellblock last Wednesday night, touching off a fracas that ended in the county’s new road patrol sergeant undergoing surgery for a broken leg.
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County commissioners Tuesday night formally endorsed a plan to develop a county juvenile detention home being developed by the Probate Court office.
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County officials say they want to see two “extensions” keeping the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Citizen Advisory Commission and innholder leases scheduled to expire this year.

30 YEARS AGO

JUNE 23, 1977

Some 68 percent of 55,196 acres of land earmarked for the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore has been acquired, but there are indications that some of the acreage still in private hands may be acquired only through condemnation.
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Amid predictions that summertime revenue soon will exceed that from winter sports for the first time in its history, Sugar Loaf Mountain north of Cedar will dedicate $350,000 worth of new convention facilities Sunday.
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Leelanau County’s new tax protest organization now has an official name, has developed a chain of command and funding program and has repeated a vow to find out how tax monies are being spent as well as how they are raised.

55 YEARS AGO

JUNE 19, 1952

Twenty-three candidates, only two of them on the Democratic ticket, filed at the courthouse in Leland before the deadlines Tuesday afternoon for Primary Election Aug. 5.
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Rogers Marine Service at Northport this week began construction of three 35-foot captain’s gigs, under contract with the Navy’s bureau of ships.
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A group of Leland residents yesterday formed a village improvement committee with the aim of beautifying the town.

110 YEARS AGO

JUNE 17, 1897

W.W. Barton will still be postmaster in this village, having received the appointment.
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Sogge and Synder shingle mills will shut down next Saturday, after three months of a successful run, cutting as high as 32,000 in five hours.
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Mr. A Huntington informs us that he has resigned his position as miller, in charge of the Norrisville flouring mills where he has been employed the past two years. He has accepted a position at Copemish Manistee Co.
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Gill’s Pier. Joseph Reicha has moved into his new house. Martin Korson is very busy peeling bark for the Kirt Brothers.