July 5, 2012 RSS feed / Life in Leelanau

Art’s offers summer salad recipe

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 county students earn 4-H grants for husbandry

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...

Talking with Rose O'Neill

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...

More than 200 students on G-L honor roll

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

Promise to Northport kids paying off

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...

Suttons Bay’s bad water found during routine testing

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...

Task force discusses Greilickville traffic study

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...

New Empire parking attendant on the job

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...

Sailboat OK after washing ashore

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

Raffle for new Volt to help Heritage Trail

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...

Pianist returns for NCAC performance

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

County Notes

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...

Museum offers plenty of kids’ events

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...

S-B alumni graduates from West Point

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

Empire museum gets Rader Collection

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...

A few farmer’s jobs in Port Oneida

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 1952

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...

50-plus recognized in Leland’s third trimester

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...

Kraynak summer lecture series starts Tuesday

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...

Flippin’ pancakes for a good cause

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...

Northport tour has five unique homes

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...

Rockford clan feels at home in fifth wheel on lake

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...

Another house just a stone’s throw away

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

Lyman’s ‘Up North’ green home all about recycling and native plants

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...

What We’re Thinking

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

Empire’s round house energy-efficient

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...

Blink!

Light cherry harvest over quickly

Cherry harvest was short and sweet with no hint of tart for the Coldwell family of Leland Township. Janice Dearing of Northport had been waiting. She stopped into the Coldwell farm market, and found sweet cherries selling for $4.50 a quart. More...

Cherries trucked to processors

Fruit growers are accustomed to competing with apples grown in the state of Washington. But cherries? More...

St. Mary chicken dinner Sunday

It’s time once again for the annual St. Mary School Festival and Chicken Dinner, the school’s signature fund-raiser that has been going on for at least “forever,” said Kris Popp, public relations coordinator for the school. More...

Kasson talks about fire millage

A need to get the word out to voters about the township fire/rescue millage was discussed this week by the Kasson Township Board. More...

No business in five-minute BPW meeting

The county Board of Public Works (BPW) met for just five minutes Tuesday for its second quarterly meeting of 2012. More...

G-L Board adopts new school budget

Revenue totaling $7.6 million was identified in the 2012-13 budget adopted last week by the Glen Lake Board of Education. The board adopted the spending plan for the budget year which began Sunday during a special meeting June 27. More...

Glen Arbor art group offers beginner’s classes

The Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) will offer a number of classes this summer for beginning students. More...

Northport benefit concert to aid LCC

The Northport Lions Club will hold a benefit concert featuring the “Back Room Gang” to raise money for the Leelanau Children’s Center. The concert will be held in the Northport Community Arts Center at 8 p.m. More...

Bankruptcy judge denies motion to sell Bay View property to mortgage firm

A lengthy and complex federal bankruptcy court case to decide the fate of the BayView condos in the Village of Suttons Bay continued to grind on last week in Flint. Attorneys associated with the case declined to speak on the record, however. More...

Approval of Elmwood parks master plan recommended

The Elmwood Township Parks and Recreation Committee last week recommended approval of draft update to its five-year Parks and Recreation Master Plan. More...

Leland Harbor a high rent district

$2 per foot fee worth it after makeover, says harbor master

There’s been some falloff in slip rentals, but not a dramatic drop, resulting from a steep increase in overnight fees at the Leland Harbor. More...

Leelanau Trail’s paving just in time for bike tour

The Tour de Tart’s 12th annual ride on the Leelanau Trail from Traverse City to Suttons Bay will be a historic ride this month. More...

Cherry fest coming to Suttons Bay, hort station

County residents won’t have to go to Traverse City next week to participate in National Cherry Festival activities. More...

St. Mary grad to teach low income kids

Leanne Schaub has been accepted into the Teach for America program. More...

Hoensheid graduates from Michigan Tech

Ryan Hoensheid, a Suttons Bay High School graduate, recently graduated with his master’s degree in civil engineering from Michigan Technological University in Houghton. More...

Summer heating up in Omena

It isn’t just the summer temperatures that are heating things up in Omena. The mayoral elections are now in full swing. More...

Glen Lake celebrates Fourth of July

Happy Fourth of July. I’m sure everyone enjoyed the “Anything Goes” parade. Please be careful with the fireworks. Happy Birthday to Web Cook and to my brother Steve Thompson. Happy Anniversary to Marge and Roger Walker. More...

Looking Back in Leelanau…

5 YEARS AGO July 5, 2007 More...

Suttons Bay names honor roll students

A total of 169 students in grades 7 through 12 are listed on the honor roll for the fourth quarter marking period at Suttons Bay Middle and High School. More...

Leland secondary students earn honors

More than 100 Leland students in grades 7-12 were recognized for their academic performance during second semester 2011-2012. More...

Lake Leelanau’s Rexroat announces engagement

Joseph Rexroat of Lake Leelanau and Elizabeth Pollock of Fremont have announced their engagement. An Aug. 10 wedding is planned. The bride-elect is the daughter of Christie Pollock of Fremont. More...

Leland’s Sneeds make Dean’s List

A Leland brother and sister were named to the Dean’s List at their respective colleges in the second semester. Erin E. More...

COUNTY CRIBS

North Lake Leelanau lodge turned into a work of art

Beth Howard and Clark Southwell sat on the shore of north Lake Leelanau and made plans to build a lakeside cottage for Howard and her husband, David. More...

Couple at peace in old church

It was very cold with about three feet of snow on the ground when Marjorie and Walt Farrell first walked into their Northport home, the former St. Gertrude Catholic Church. More...

Old stone house a rock for the ages

Bertha Skeba doesn’t know how many square feet are in her house. She can’t tell you exactly how tall the ceilings are in her kitchen, although they look to be a good nine feet from the linoleum floor. More...

Lakeshore’s oldest home still stands

From the road it doesn’t look like much. In fact, it could be mistaken for a 1940’s cottage, but beneath the green clapboard siding lies the oldest home in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. At least it was once a home. More...

Northport’s low-income housing looking affordable now

After two years on the market, one county-built home in Northport has sold and another may have a buyer. The homes are part of Leelanau County’s affordable housing program. More...