5 YEARS AGO
OCTOBER 24, 2002

A Nov. 5 ballot proposal to increase a telephone surcharge that underwrites 9-1-1 emergency dispatching operations could result in Leelanau County doubling the number of dispatchers it employs.
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Fall’s brilliant color still engulfs Leelanau’s landscape just one week prior to Halloween. That’s about two weeks later than normal, and a rarity.

10 YEARS AGO
OCTOBER 23, 1997

Nearly 3,700 county residents in Suttons Bay and Bingham townships will be eligible to vote Tuesday in a special election to fund the townships’ new “advance life support” ambulance service.
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Quickly and quietly last week, Leland Township officials approved a refund of more than $8,000 in permit fees to the county for planned expansion of the county building.
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Six decades of basketball experience helped propel Glen Lake girls’ basketball coach Ted Swierad to his 400th career coaching victory with a win at Frankfort Tuesday night.

30 YEARS AGO
OCTOBER 27,1977

The text of the first Leland Township Zoning Ordinance is printed in its entirety in this issue of the Enterprise. It encompasses nearly three pages of text and two pages of maps.
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A federal judge has continued an order stopping the distribution of $1.5 million in federal funds in lieu of property taxes to compensate for Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore lands. Also, Gov. William G. Milliken provided the keynote address Monday during an official dedication of the park some 161⁄2 years after it was first proposed.

55 YEARS AGO
OCTOBER 23, 1952

Mr. and Mrs. Fred F. Fraiser of Elmwood Township are to receive $4,000 from Leelanau County as the result of a suit filed against them last year by the Leelanau County Board of Road Commissioners, it was revealed in a decree filed Friday in Circuit Court.
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Leelanau County’s board of supervisors last week approved a budget for 1953 of $89,156.77, the largest ever, and an increase of $4,082.87 over this year.
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Members of the Elmwood Township board, after opening bids Monday night for first stage construction of the Elmwood town hall, decided all four bids were too high and scheduled a “negotiation” meeting for Wednesday night.

110 YEARS AGO
OCTOBER 14, 1897

County Clerk Hinshaw has deer hunter’s license blanks and affidavits to correspond with the license; all persons hereafter will be obliged to make application in person to the County Clerk.
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Maple City. Some people went to southern Michigan, and all returned excepting Mr. Borough. The Post Office is nicely located in the drug store.
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Northport. Mrs. Phillips Howell, who has been quite sick for some time, is now much better. Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler, old residents of this township, now of Milwaukee, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Craker, of Omena.