5 YEARS AGO
DECEMBER 5, 2002

Groundbreaking for the new county law enforcement center is set for 3 p.m. Tuesday — but now it appears that actual construction will have to wait until spring.
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Owners of the Frigid Foods property in the Village of Suttons Bay say they plan to proceed with development of a massive “village addition” even though their relationship with a downstate developer is in question.
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The holiday shopping season in Leelanau County seemed off to a decent on Friday but began to sputter over the weekend as snowstorms kept shoppers away from local stores.

10 YEARS AGO
DECEMBER 4, 1997

A proposal for the first county-wide septic system inspection ordinance was formally reviewed Tuesday by a committee of the County Board of Commissioners.
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Property tax bills weren’t mailed before the state-mandated Dec. 1 deadline to most property owners in Leelanau County. County officials are blaming a Kalamazoo company hired to print out and stuff the bills.
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Voters in Leelanau Township by a 2-1 margin approved the rezoning of 93 acres owned by the Petty family in Cathead Bay in a referendum forced by a petition drive.

30 YEARS AGO
DECEMBER 8, 1977

Northport Village has applied for a permit to discharge treated sewer through a 3,750-foot pipe into Northport Bay as part of a proposed $2.7 million new municipal sewer system that would be built should federal funds be secured.
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Leelanau County’s “official” snowfall for December totaled only 51⁄2 inches as of yesterday, bringing the season’s total to just 23 inches.
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County officials are conceding this week that the state equalized value of property could be jumped more than 20 percent by the Michigan Tax Commission, which is likely to rule that Leelanau properties are undervalued.
FOR SALE: Bluff lot near Peterson Park on county road. Great Lake Michigan views, 100 feet on Lake Michigan, $15,000.

55 YEARS AGO
DECEMBER 4, 1952

Military services for Pvt. Eugene A Kropp of Good Harbor, killed by shrapnel September 22 near Sohuigu, North Korea, will be held Friday afternoon in Suttons Bay.
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Eugene Fochtman of Elmwood was elected president Wednesday night of the Munson hospital corporation. He succeeds Paul Smith of Northport.
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A Wyandotte man, 71, died Friday of injuries incurred Thanksgiving morning when he was struck by a Cedar man’s car while attempting to push his stalled auto with his son at the wheel on Morgan Hill in Elmwood Township.

110 YEARS AGO
NOVEMBER 25, 1897

We are informed that the U.S.L.S.S on North Manitou will close on Tuesday next.
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Annie Houdek, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wenzil Houdek, died at the home of her parents near Gill’s Pier Sunday of diphtheria.
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Northport. Measles is all the rage in town. E.E. Chase expects to move back on his farm in the near future. Oscar Peterson is teaching school south of Provemont. He commenced last Monday. Roy Steele has moved on his farm about 2 miles south-west of here, recently purchase of Chas. Baumberger.