The Leelanau County Board of Commissioners' Inspections Department Subcommittee will hold a meeting tomorrow, June 29, at 9 a.m. in the county's River Office Building meeting room in Leland.
Peter and Christina Rennie, whose strawberry stand was robbed on June 15, are bouncing back from the incident. The siblings received a $100 check from a Charlevoix couple, and plan to donate it to the Fresh Food Partnership. Read related story.
The unseasonably warm weather at the start of April may have been welcomed by the general public, but don't include the county’s strawberry growers in that group.
Cousins Trevor Petroskey and D.J. Petroskey show off a string full of bluegill that they caught Sunday at Kids Fishing Day. Read related story.
While a lot of kids were touched Sunday by their first fishing experience, it was the 750 or so bluegills planted in a future county park that were touched over and over again.
Interested in having a good time? Consider being in Northport on Saturday or Sunday for the Northport Harbor Days. Good people and lots to enjoy for kids and adults alike.
Philip Brown, the son of Jere and Gail Brown of Elmwood Township, was recently promoted to sergeant in the Army at Fort Riley, Kansas, where he has been serving as a weapons instructor since January 2006 following a one-year tour of duty in Iraq as a sniper team observer with an infantry rifle platoon. He [...]
Samantha L. Garthe, daughter of Carl and Shirley Garthe of Lake Leelanau, was named to the dean's list at Madonna University for spring semester 2007.
Garthe is a 2006 graduate of St. Mary School.
Ten Leelanau County students received academic honors from Ferris State University for the spring 2007 term. Students on the list have maintained a grade point average of a 3.4 or above.