5 YEARS AGO October 17, 2019
The issue of how to protect Christmas Cove’s eroding beach and parking lot has returned to the front burner for Leelanau Township board members and residents. At its regular meeting in September, the Leelanau Township Board approved the park and recreation committee’s recommendation to commission KAL Excavating in Omena, in an amount not to exceed $5,000, to place tree stumps in the embankment to Christmas Cove’s parking lot, where township Supervisor Doug Scripps said the erosion is most severe. *** A pilot program to provide locally grown food to public school students with roots in Leelanau County was one of the 147 line item vetoes signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Championed by local lawmakers, some $2 million was included for the project in the budget passed by the State Legislature. Some public schools such as Glen Lake plan to continue offering fresh foods from local farmers in hopes that the funding will be restored.
10 YEARS AGO October 16, 2014