5 YEARS AGO
May 1, 2003

The Verbalists, featuring Matt Kibbey, Scott Mills and Adam Harkness, is a rap group quickly gaining a following within the county and regionally. The group has just released its second compact disc, “Bootleg.”
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Cherry farmers statewide and throughout the nation supported industry efforts to control yields during a vote of farmers held earlier this year.
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A May 15 hearing is set on the county Road Commission’s application for a state permit to fill less that one-half acre of property with 4,300 cubic yards of material during construction of an access road to the new county Law Enforcement Center off M-204.

10 YEARS AGO
April 30, 1998

Ross Lang made his mark on the commercial fishing industry in Michigan—and his death Thursday may have a dramatic impact on the future of the fishery in Leland.
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Turtle Creek Casino, the most profitable casino owned by the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, will remain open despite challenges to its legal standing to operate off the Peshawbestown reservation.
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A challenge over township involvement in the county facilities issue has prompted the withdraw of a representative from the county facilities task force.

30 YEARS AGO
May 4, 1978

Although a “slump” in new construction in Leelanau County had been predicted for 1978 after last year’s record building year, new work so far this year is nearly twice as great as the pace at the same time in 1977.
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Two rulings this week by the U.S. Supreme Court apparently have blunted two arguments by Leelanau County’s Elmwood Township against annexation of part of its territory to Traverse City and against establishment of an adult movie theater in the township.
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The Leland school district ranks No. 2 among Michigan’s 530 public school systems in state equalized property valuation per child.

55 YEARS AGO
April 30, 1953

Contributions and pledges that bring the total to nearly $46,000 were reported by workers in the Leelanau Memorial Hospital fund drive at a meeting at Northport High School Tuesday night, according to Fred A. Dechow, drive chairman.
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Cpl. Mitchell Yanosky, 23, wounded March 1 in the battle for Old Baldy in Korea, and wearing the Purple Heart, and Oak Leaf Cluster with three stars, has come home to Empire.
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A Navy destroyer escort just outside of Leland harbor as she came in Thursday morning from maneuvers to send ashore a sailor from Trenton, Ohio was landed by a captain’s gig.

110 YEARS AGO
April 28, 1898

The steamer Charlevois stopped at Watts Pier on Sunday last for potatoes.
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The editor of a competitor newspaper in Suttons Bay has written that the editor of the Enterprise lies “around in public places and passes low remarks about respectible people of both sexes.”
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Elmer Beech lost his first finger and thumb in a serious accident at the Stebbins shingle mill at Northport.