The Senior Expo annually draws crowds looking to learn about resources, products and services available to senior residents of Leelanau County. More...

A “merit pay” addition of $8,000 was provided this week for Leland Superintendent Jason Stowe.  The Board of Education voted unanimously Monday night to approve the bonus, which is in addition to Stowe’s $112,500 salary paid th More...

Purchases totaling more than $275,000 were approved this week by the Leland Board of Education.  The School Board voted Monday night to approve two bids — one for new computer devices and the second for a new bus.  More...

Glen Lake Superintendent Sander Scott received a “highly effective” rating in his second performance evaluation with the district, which was completed last week.  More...

The “Throw Bros” went out in style at the MHSAA Lower Peninsula Division 4 Fina More...

Leelanau County Sheriff Mike Borkovich took video after video while watching the MLB Draft last week, waiting for his son’s name to be called.  It never was.  “The whole thing just blows my mind,” Borkovich said last Thurs More...

Glen Lake senior Jared Jackson was one of 24 players named to the Michigan High School Baseball Coaches Association Division 4 allstate first team last week.  Jackson, who was an all-state second team selection as a junior, made the cut as an in More...

The “40 is the new 20” adage rang true for Eric Quinn over the weekend.  Quinn, a 40-year-old runner from Onekama, circumnavigated big Glen Lake and finished first among 170 participants Saturday in the sixth annual Glen Arbor Solsti More...

Why walk a mile in someone else’s shoes when you can run 100 in your own?  A pair of Leelanau Peninsula women, Jill Plamondon and Evie Kellogg, recently did just that by completing the Lighthouse 100 ultra marathon from Petoskey to Old Mis More...

EMMA GRANT, a Suttons Bay High School senior who resides in Bingham Township, reads her award-winning Leelanau County Republican Party 2017 Lincoln Day Essay, “The Legacy of President Lincoln,” to the Leelanau County Board of Commissioner More...

LISA CONROY of Cedar has been collecting food in quarterly food drives for Leelanau Christian Neighbors and the Empire Area Food Pantry for eight years. More...

A higher pay schedule designed to attract more part-time staff to the Glen Lake Fire Department has been approved by the Glen Arbor Township Board.  The Township Board on Tuesday night approved a request from Chief John Dodson to offer certified More...

Officers in the armed forces and their guests are invited to the quarterly membership and dinner meeting of the local chapter of the Military Officers Association of America (MOAA), which will be held today at 6 p.m. More...

The Suttons Bay-Bingham District Library will kick off its summer reading series Monday at 10 a.m.  Kids and their parents may sign up for a summer-long program that includes plenty of activities — from learning about bugs, to leaf poundin More...

Developer Ron Walters said the Fourth of July holiday and the National Cherry Festival may be the only things that will delay the beginning of work this summer on a $20 million hotel and marina project in Elmwood Township.  More...