5 YEARS AGO May 21, 2020
Memorial Day on the Leelanau Peninsula will look a little different this year, but folks still plan to honor those who died while serving their country. Gerald Culman, maintenance director for the Leelanau County Government Center, said the veterans memorial at the government center will still host a 21-gun salute and a performance of “Taps” on horn at 10 a.m. Monday, though no further ceremony will take place there this year. “It’s going to be very brief,” Culman added. *** The Leland Dam gate has been lowered nearly as far as it will go to cope with rising waters in Lake Leelanau and its watershed. Leelanau County maintenance director Gerald Culman said he opened the dam gate Monday morning after some 2-3/4-inches of rainfall was recorded Sunday night. The county-owned-and-operated dam in Leland’s Fishtown drains Lake Leelanau into Lake Michigan via the Leland River. Flooding was observed Monday in low-lying areas of all seven of Leelanau County’s 11 townships within the Lake Leelanau watershed.
10 YEARS AGO
May 21, 2015
A controversy is heating up over whether a “Blue Star Memorial” honoring local military veterans should be installed at the Village of Suttons Bay’s North Park near the intersection of M-22 and M-204. Members of the By-the-Bay Garden Club of Suttons Bay have embarked on a letter-writing campaign to urge the Village Council to reconsider a decision it made last month to decline an offer from the club to install and maintain the memorial at no expense to the village. *** Jen Lewis of Suttons Bay will be happy to see a big yellow bus pick up her children for school next fall. “I’m excited,” said Lewis, whose children — ages 8 and 10 — attend Suttons Bay Public School. “ I look forward to the possibility of having them dropped off or picked up at our driveway.” Suttons Bay school officials have announced that they will be back in the transportation business for the 201516 school year
25 YEARS AGO
May 25, 2000
Forest Haven Soldiers: The Civil War Veterans of Glen Lake and Surrounding Leelanau, has been written by Leonard G. Overmyer III, a 1982 graduate of Glen Lake Schools. *** Three parcels along M-204 are being considered for a 63-bed county jail — and more. *** The Leelanau Conservancy announced it has completed purchase of the 86-acre Clagett property, the largest of the two parcels comprising the “gateway to Empire” project.
50 YEARS AGO
May 22, 1975
Barbed wire guards the American Flag on its staff in front of the Veterans of Foreign Wars all at Lake Leelanau today. The action was taken after Saturday night’s theft of the fifth flag in some two years from its place atop a tall poll at the post situated alongside highway M-204. *** An additional $5 million could be available by July I for Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore P.ecreation Area property acquisition and other expenditures, if Congress acts on a measure now before it. Julius Mardnek, lakeshore superintendent, made the disclosure Tuesday and also said Sen. Philip A. Hart of Michigan is seeking $1 million in supplemental funds to aid development of the park.
75 YEARS AGO
May 25, 1950
Senator James T. Milliken, the ten years representative of this district in the state legislature, announced this week that he will not be a candidate reelection. The reason for his retirement is ill health. *** Frigid Foods, Incorporated, of Suttons Bay is building a $10,000 sewage disposal plant, which it hopes will end all bay pollution problems. Erected behind the main plant, the disposal unit is of cement and cement block structure, 22 by 28 feet.
100 YEARS AGO May 21, 1925
Coast Guard William Laird and family of Charlevoix were in town Monday. *** Mrs. Harvey Norconk, Mrs. C.H. Treat and daughter Margaret of Empire attended the commencement exercises here Tuesday evening *** Miss Flora McCray is in town looking after her summer cottage.
