Leelanau Enterprise

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Utility foundation honors lineman

The Consumers Energy Foundation has awarded a $450 grant to the Suttons Bay High School soccer program to recognize outstanding volunteerism by a utility employee.
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Tapias and Stallmans welcome baby's birth

Jose and Margo Tapia of Leelanau County are the parents of a baby girl born Wednesday, June 25 at Munson Medical Center in Traverse City.
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1 in 12 chance for new windows

The Grand Traverse Lighthouse Museum in Leelanau State Park is in the running to win new windows and doors.
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Cherry festival draws crowds to Bingham horticulture station

Traverse City may be the heart of the National Cherry Festival, but Leelanau County will also once again provide a major role during the eight-day festival.
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Principal's Awards go to 3 at S-M

Three St. Mary students were issued the 2008 Principal's Awards last month.
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New development director at S-M

Jean LaCross of Lake Leelanau has stepped down after eight years as development director at St. Mary School, and was replaced by Jozell Rexroat of Suttons Bay Township.
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The power of polka

Cedar's big celebration credited with helping fund student scholarships.

Revelers who enjoy the swirling, twirling music of the Cedar Polka Fest have helped quite a few Cedar-area residents.
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Greilickville irony: No post office

History, including local lore, can be ironic.

It is ironic, for instance, that today Greilickville, despite being as populous a community as there is in Leelanau County, has no post office.
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Looking Back - June 26

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.

Omena News

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