5 YEARS AGO March 26, 2020
As locals settle into the new normal of mandated home quarantine from COVID-19, some fear the impending return of snowbirds to Leelanau Peninsula could throw a proverbial wrench into the gears. Referring to folks returning to their summer homes from other areas, Leland Township Supervisor Susan Och said she has been hearing about snowbirds returning early to Leelanau this year in order to escape both the virus that causes COVID-19 and its surrounding restrictions in other locales. *** A group of Suttons Bay residents last week began showing their support for local restaurants by hosting a “dinner party” through their home computers via the video conferencing application Zoom. “I’m kind of on a campaign to get more people to do this all over Leelanau County,” said Donna Popke, best known locally as an organizer of the annual Suttons Bay Art Festival and as a member of the Village of Suttons Bay’s zoning board of appeals
10 YEARS AGO
