Just in time for summer picnics, Marcia Davis, food & beverage manager at Art’s Tavern in Glen Arbor, submitted this week’s recipe for Jamaican Spicy Coleslaw. More...

Eight Leelanau County 4-H students have been awarded grants from the Traverse City State Bank. Forty students from Grand Traverse, Leelanau and Benzie counties applied for the grants. More...

Name: Rose O’Neill. Town or township of residence: Suttons Bay. Resident of county since: January 1984, just over 28 years. Age and place of birth: 57-years-old. And I was born in Dearborn, Mich. More...

A total of 216 Glen Lake Secondary students were listed on the honor roll for the second semester. More...

Since the first six Northport Promise Scholarships were given out to the Class of 2008, a total of 34 scholarships worth $131,500 have been given out to graduates of Northport Public School. More...

Routine testing of the Village of Suttons Bay’s water supply last week revealed potential contamination that required village residents to either boil their water or avoid consuming it for nearly four days. More...

Elmwood Township’s Greilickville Commercial Corridor Task Force met last Thursday to discuss a proposed traffic study and methods the Michigan Department of Transportation will use to take traffic counts at various locations in the township beg More...

About 40 parking spots have been added at the Lake Michigan Beach Park in Empire, and a dozen benches and several no parking signs have been placed in strategic areas in a plan meant to get people parking in the right places. More...

A 34-foot sailboat moored off Van’s Beach in Leland broke free during a thunderstorm early Tuesday morning, and washed ashore. More...

TART Trails and Cherry Republic have partners to sponsor the “Charge Up the Dunes” raffle to raise money for the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail campaign. More...

Northport will feel the spirits of Chopin and Liszt Saturday when pianist Thomas Pandolfi returns to the Northport Community Arts Center. More...

July 5: • Cedar Polka Fest Band: Polka Jamboree — 5 p.m. under the tents at the Cedar Tennis Courts • Cedar Polka Fest Band: Squeeze Box — 5 p.m. under the tents at the Cedar Tennis Courts • Cabin Fever — 7 p.m. More...

The Great Lakes Children’s Museum, located on S. West Bay Shore Dr. in Greilickville, has planned a summer full of fun activities for kids of all ages. Here’s what’s in store for the month of July: More...

Cadet Jason R. Steimel, son of Allen and Marjorie Steimel of Suttons Bay, has graduated from the U.S. Military Academy. More...

The Jack and Mary Rader Collection, a collection of hundreds of photographs, postcards, journals and ledgers, books, pamplets, maps and miscellaneous documents, was donated to the Empire Area Museum last week. The collection was donated by Robert W. More...

Editor’s note: We continue a series of stories adapted from the “Images & Recollections from Port Oneida” book series, based on oral histories by Tom Van Zoeren. More...

SUTTONS BAY Class of 1952 held its 60th reunion Friday at the Village in Tavern in Suttons Bay. Eight members were present, a half dozen were unable to attend and 11 are deceased. More...

More than 50 fifth and sixth graders at Leland Public School earned spots on the honor roll for the third trimester of the 2011-12 school year. More...

The Leelanau Township Library in Northport has announced the speakers in the 2012 Susanne Rose Kraynak summer lecture series. Stephanie Mills, world-renowned environmental visionary, activist, editor and writer kicks off the series on Tuesday. More...

More than 500 adults and a good number of children enjoyed pancakes, sausage, applesauce and cherry sauce at the Glen Arbor Firefighters Association annual pancake breakfast Sunday. More...

A rebuilt 1970s cottage in Omena, a re-purposed church and a four-story post and beam barn home overlooking the peninsula are part of the Northport Home Tour. More...

Janet VanTimmeren’s summer ‘crib’ on Lake Leelanau pales in comparison to the size of her spacious 4,800-square foot home back in Rockford. More...

Bertha Skeba and her son Alen wish they had written down more information about the Skeba farm. They hope others avoid their mistake. More...

Lori and Michael Lyman are taking great strides to go green with their new home. As a landscape architect, Lori Lyman had clear direction when she and her husband Michael began building off Burdickville Road. More...

For this week’s “What We’re Thinking” feature, we asked residents and visitors in Northport: More...

Paul Richards is known to think “out of the box.” And that’s just what the Empire Township man did when he built an octagonal home in Suttons Bay in the late 1980s and a round house about 20 years later on MacFarlane Road. More...