5 YEARS AGO
June 26, 2003

The Garthe family operated the Log Cabin restaurant on a west-facing Lake Michigan bluff near Northport from 1920 to 1953. It will be one six log buildings featured in the Northport Women’s Club home tour next month.
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Brian Kulanda’s fishing pole was pulled out of his boat by a smallmouth bass in Lime Lake Saturday morning. Later that day, his 7-year old son Kyle went fishing with his grandfather Tom and caught that same bass, retrieving Brian’s fishing pole in the process.
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Leelanau County will proceed with construction of its law enforcement center on 43 acres in Suttons Bay Township off M-204 despite the lack of a land use permit.

10 YEARS AGO
June 25, 1998

Task force members received a “thank you” from County Board Chairman J. Patrick Yoder last week, which stated that “preliminary ballot language and financials” have been completed in anticipation of placing the courthouse issue before voters on the November general election ballot.
The Leelanau Conservancy is on the verge of protecting over 100 acres of land adjacent to the M-22 corridor in the Gill’s Pier area between Leland and Northport.
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Empire Township has a full-time EMT/firefighter — and its first female fire chief in Kathy Fordyce.

30 YEARS AGO
June 29, 1978

Where will a dam on the Leland River regulate the water level of 18-mile long Lake Leelanau—and who will pay for it? That was a question put before the Leelanau County Board of Commissioners.
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A Michigan State Police “minipost” to serve the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park and other areas of southern Leelanau County is back “on the drawing boards,” but where the post will be located is still up in the air.
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Leelanau and the other counties in northwestern Lower Michigan appear likely to produce nearly half of the tart cherries harvested in the United States this year, according to the official U.S. Department of Agriculture forecast made Thursday.

55 YEARS AGO
June 25, 1953

The Grand Traverse Sales company received final approval Monday night from the village council for a huge expansion program in the manufacture of Flushwood doors at Suttons Bay.
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C. Phillip Krull of Glen Arbor will succeed John Bacon July 1 as superintendent of Empire High School. Mr. Krull had taught at Maple City High School for the past three years. He also is owner of Glen Craft Marine on Glen Lake.
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The state-wide refinery increase Tuesday boosted gasoline prices in Leelanau County to an all-time high average of 30.9 cents a gallon for regular and 32.9 for ethyl.

123 YEARS AGO
June 25, 1885

Fishing in Carp Lake is splendid. N. Paulus caught some fine trout yesterday, with one weighing 26 pounds.
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Mr. M. Keller of this township raised the frame for a new barn yesterday.
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The Young people of Provement have decided to celebrate the glorious Fourth at the place of Mr. Simeon Schaub.