5 YEARS AGO
OCTOBER 31, 2002

Glen Arbor has given back to bakery owner Barb Richardson, who was recently diagnosed with kidney failure. “It seems like every day I get a letter or note or someone stops in to see how I’m doing,” she said after the community rallied around her to offer emotional and financial support.
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Controversy over a lost deputy’s badge has cost the county an estimated $2,300 in legal fees over its defense of a grievance filed by the Police Officers Association of Michigan.
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Hundreds of willing victims dared to participate in “haunted hayrides” organized over the past two weekends by the Fraternal Order of Eagles Auxiliary in Empire.

10 YEARS AGO
OCTOBER 30, 1997

Local public school districts provide a quality education and could be helped by a regional enhancement millage, according to a recent survey of area registered voters.
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The arrival of the game — Frankfort vs. Glen Lake —brings head-to-head two undefeated football teams playing for the conference championship.
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Ginny Clark of Glen Lake Middle School is playing defensive tackle on the Lakers’ 8th grade football team. Ginny said teammates have grown accustomed to her, but that doesn’t mean they let up.

30 YEARS AGO
OCTOBER 27, 1977

Property tax bills in Leelanau County in December will add up to about $5 million, with more than $4 million of the total going to public school systems.
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Nearly 161⁄2 years after it was first proposed, the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Park became “official” Saturday in dedication ceremonies at the foot of the “climbing area” near Glen Haven.
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Leelanau County apparently will have no direct representation on the Michigan Boundary Commission, which may take action Nov. 16 on a petition for the annexation of some 353 acres in Elmwood Township to Traverse City.

55 YEARS AGO
OCTOBER 30, 1952

Permanent officers of a steering committee were elected and plans for filing articles of incorporation were made this week at two meetings of the Northport Community hospital committee.
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A Traverse City firm, Lyon and Lather, this week began construction of a combination fire station and town hall for Elmwood Township after the township board last week awarded the general contract for $9,300.
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The selective service board this week released names of six men scheduled to leave Nov. 12 for physical examinations. They are Patrick Schopieray, Gary Houghton and Leonard Zywicki of Cedar route 2; Arnold Smith and Edward LaCross of Suttons Bay; and Aloysius Stachnik of Maple City route 1.

110 YEARS AGO
OCTOBER 21, 1897

Northport: W.H. Steele is buying potatoes for Chicago parties.
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The Alice M. Gill took 1,106 sacks of potatoes from Gill’s dock, for Chicago. Also, the schooner John Mee has been loading potatoes at Kehl Bros. dock for the last four days, taking 11,600 bushels.
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Bert Thomas lost a valuable horse last Saturday. It was taken sick and died in less than an hour.