5 YEARS AGO April 9, 2020
State lawmakers extended to April 30 Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s COVID-19 emergency declaration in special session Tuesday — well short of her requested 70-day extension. *** Local schools are working with the Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District (TBAISD) to provide online instruction to students for the remainder of the 2019-20 school year. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the closure of school for the remainder of the year Thursday.
10 YEARS AGO April 9, 2015
Suttons Bay vintner Larry Mawby is worried that damage to grape buds is likely to be a repeat of last year, when growers lost a substantial amount of their crop due to cold weather. It may be a little too soon to tell, Mawby said, as buds haven’t yet swelled. *** Gayle Egeler had an unannounced visitor on her front porch last week — and it wasn’t a door-to-door salesman. It was an adult black bear. “I was watching TV and noticed my cat staring out my sliding door,” said Wurm, who resides near Little Traverse Lake with National Park Service property found each way on M-22. “Then he made a mad dash.”
25 YEARS AGO
April 13, 2000
Sharon (Bowen) McGrath, a Peshawbestown girl who succumbed to brain cancer Thursday, may have done more to bring two Leelanau County communities together than anyone in living memory. *** A parcel offered as a possible jail site by Dean Robb is among some 129 acres owned by he and his wife, Cindy, near the intersection of M-204 and Horn Road.
50 YEARS AGO
April 10, 1975
An angry Sleeping Bear Dunes area landowner, Leo Dunbar of Cadillac, told members of Sleeping Bear Dunes Advisory Council which met Friday afternoon at Frankfort, he had been offered about $7 a foot for some 6,000 feet of Lake Michigan beach property by the National Park Service land acquisition office. *** Leland’s long-time commercial fishing industry may come to an end soon depending on what happens April 15 at Charlevoix.
75 YEARS AGO April 13, 1950
A stubborn fire gutted the Louis Denoyer home in Lake Leelanau Tuesday afternoon, turning Mrs. Denoyer and her seven children out into the street with little chance to rescue more than what they were wearing. Lake Leelanau. *** Empire Board Names School Study Group at a regular monthly meeting last Thursday, the Empire school board chose four members of the study committee which will consider possible consolidation with Glen Arbor and Centerville schools.
100 YEARS AGO April 9, 1925
Mr. and Mrs. J. Elder Blackledge of Indianapolis arrived Saturday for an all summer’s stay at their pleasant cottage on the bluffs of Lake Michigan. *** The many friends of Mrs. Carson Warner will be pleased to know her health is improving. *** Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Van Zee and little son have returned home after spending the winter at Holland.
