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Among the Northport Tree Lighting Festivities are horse-drawn carriage rides, like the one pictured here, departing from The Mitten Brewing Company. People can take a free carriage ride one last time this Saturday from 3-6 p.m., or drive down to the Northport Creek Golf Course for gingerbread house and cookie decorating activities. Enterprise photo by Meakalia Previch-Liu -
Leland sixth grader Nels Johnson had stars “on” his eyes singing with classmates at Thursday’s senior Christmas luncheon. Enterprise photo by Brian Freiberger
A snowless Christmas in Leelanau County?
It happens. And it’s forecast to happen again on Monday.
But topping the delightful Christmas of 1983 for getting outdoors would be difficult regardless of how high the mercury rises.
“I do remember going out and playing golf that Christmas,” recalled Tom Van Pelt, a fruit farmer from Leelanau Township. “It was almost 60 degrees, as I recall. There were…