5 YEARS AGO
August 19, 2021
A mask will be among the back to school supplies needed by Glen Lake students when they return to classrooms next month. The Glen Lake Board of Education voted 7-1 Monday night to require universal masking indoor and on school buses to begin the 2021-22 school year. *** The Tribal Council of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians recently enacted a “GTB Tribal Marijuana Ordinance” that will be unveiled to tribal members during a special online conference Friday. The chair of the Tribal Council, David Arroyo, told the Leelanau Enterprise this week that the ordinance is “substantially similar to the Michigan marijuana regulation.”
10 YEARS AGO
August 19, 2016
The Leelanau County Board of Commissioners plans to spend more than $3.3 million to upgrade emergency communications in the county, although it has yet to find a revenue source for all of the cost. The vote was 6-1 at its regular meeting held Tuesday night, with just-elected commissioner Tony Ansorge opposed. A week ago, a majority of commissioners were not ready to approve the project. The difference appears to be how it will be funded, as consideration of a millage request was deferred. *** It’s got plenty of waterfront and a spectacular view of Lake Michigan and the Manitou islands. Yet, there haven’t been any bids on the North Manitou Shoal Lighthouse offered for sale by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) through its website
realestatesales.gov.
Built in 1935, the lighthouse continues to serve an important role in keeping the Manitou Passage safe for Great Lakes shipping traffic and pleasure boats.
25 YEARS AGO
August 16, 2001
A request for the limited “full faith and credit” of Leelanau County is being sought in connection with a proposed $52 million renovation of Cherry Capital Airport. Steve Cassens, director of the Cherry Capital Airport, appeared before the county board’s executive committee Tuesday morning on behalf of the Northwest Regional Airport Commission to seek backing from Leelanau to obtain $13.3 million in revenue bonds for the project, which includes relocation of the terminal to S. Airport Rd.
*** The supply of fresh whitefish for Leelanau County restaurants and grocery stores may soon dry up because of harvest limitation being imposed on the Manitou Fish Company — the county’s only surviving “non-Native” commercial fishing business. Leland fisherman Bill Carlson said he learned officially of the new limitations last month from the state Department of Natural Resources.
50 YEARS AGO
August 19, 1976
Purchases of private property for the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore could “number in the hundreds” within the next year, a spokesman for the National Park Service at Frankfort said yesterday. The spokesman also said that the outlook for volume purchases in the following year is “favorable”. *** A fire last Oct. 30 in the Empire Township Hall might have been responsible for the apparent malfunction of a voting machine in/out why votes for 86th the Aug. 3 primary.
75 YEARS AGO
August 23, 1951
The Coast Guard Cutter Sundew is due in Greilickville harbor today with steel to be used in construction of the tower atop the end of the government breakwater. A crew from Sears Coal Dock is putting in the steel reinforcing for a cell, 36 feet in diameter, at the end of the pier. *** The Northport football team, beginning its first year, is scheduled to receive uniforms, a chalk talk and physical examinations Monday night, beginning at 7:00 at the school. Coach Henry Jarabek said the physical examinations will start about 8:00. Regular practice sessions will begin Tuesday.
100 YEARS AGO
August 19, 1926
Mr. and Mrs. Forest Reed and four children of Washington,D.C. visited last Thursday with D. Selby and family. They were on their way to California where Mr. Reed will construct nitrogen fixations plants for the government.
*** The Leland Mercantile has a new REO Speedwagon.
