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Bob Ellis is still touching lives, even in death.
At Orchard Creek Health Care in Elmwood Township, a memorial garden and park was created in his honor this year. On Friday, Orchard Creek held a dedication ceremony where Ellis’ friends and family gathered to honor a man employees called "their shining star."
It was a vacation in 1964 that first brought Ed Love to Leelanau County. His family enjoyed it so much they tried to make it an annual event.
To help fulfill the goal, his parents bought property in Empire Township in 1968, and that’s where he lives today.
When Richard "Dick" Miller was a young man, he recalled his grandfather pointing across a field at a cloud.
"It's raining over there," his grandfather proclaimed. It was 75 years ago, and the comment sparked a life-long interest in weather for Miller.
Efforts to increase the population of Piping Plovers in the Great Lakes are paying off, at least in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
College student's project aimed at understanding HIV/AIDS
Leelanau County native Sara Baumann won't be lounging on the beach this summer.
Instead, the college student is spending her summer in India trying to do her part to stem the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
The weather is warming up, school’s nearly out, and there’s a festive mood in the air.
It may not be as well known as the Super Bowl or Rose Bowl, but to the girls who participate in the 4-H Horse Bowl, it doesn’t matter.
What does matter, they say, are lessons in horsemanship and life – and learning from Eleanor Miller, a coach who has been involved with horses for over [...]
Mike Farr's 1948 Ford Tudor Coupe is the stuff of a hot rodder's dream.
With blue flames flashing down the sides, the car looks like it's moving even at a standstill.
Alternative school coming to an end after 10 years
At one time, Kayla Boyadjian didn't think she'd graduate from high school. She got a second chance at Leelanau Peninsula High School, and now she’s a part of the alternative school’s final graduation class.
When looking at the rich blue waters of West Grand Traverse Bay from the science ship Inland Seas, the looming threat of invasive species doesn't seem apparent.
As some 30 students from a Rochester middle school learned last week, however, species like zebra mussels and quagga mussels are changing the biology of the Great Lakes.
