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Hoekstra, O'Non compete for drain commissioner job
Hoekstra, O'Non compete for drain commissioner job
Since longtime Leelanau County Drain Commissioner Steve Christensen is not running for reelection, the position is up for grabs and voters will decide in the general election who will serve in the role. This year, two candidates, Democrat Faith Hoekstra is running against Republican Timothy O’Non for the job. Despite efforts to reach Hoekstra regarding her candidacy, she did not respond by the time of publication. 10/23/2024 06:26 PM
Gramps the Vamp, a Chicago “doom funk” band, provides a live soundtrack to the 1922 silent film “Nosferatu” at a WBEZ Chicagosponsored event last year. The group is performing alongside a screening of the film at the Bay Theatre in Suttons Bay Saturday at 7 p.m. Courtesy photo by DTKindler...
Spooky movie Saturday in S-B
Halloween is just a week away, and the Suttons Bay Community Theatre is helping people get into the spirit by screening a classic scary movie. They’re showing “Nosferatu,” a 1922 silent movie adapting Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” at 7 p.m. 10/23/2024 06:26 PM
The Glen Arbor Players will present “Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily” Thursday – Saturday, October 31 and November 1st and 2nd at the Glen Lake Community Church. Courtesy photo
G-A Players take the stage
The Glen Arbor Players and director Don Kuehlhorn are kickin’ it old school in their next production, “Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily,” using an old-timey radio show format to present this new Holmes comedy/mystery by contemporary Seattle actor and playwright Katie Forgette. 10/23/2024 06:26 PM
Northport women meet
Northport women meet
The Northport meeting of the Northport Women’s Club will be held at 1 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 5 at the Trinity Church community room. 10/23/2024 06:26 PM
A to Z concert Sunday
A to Z concert Sunday
The Empire Area Community Center will have a concert, Sunday, from 4 to 6 p.m., at the Little Traverse Inn on M-22. Performers are A to Z, a northern Michigan-based band made up of songwriters, Audrey Mason and Zinnia Dungjen. 10/23/2024 06:26 PM
St. Mary K-5 students and their mothers participated in the second annual St. Mary Mother/Son Tournament of Champions. Moms and sons competed in a series of different minute-to-win-it style game/competitions. Score cards were kept and a champion team was crowned for obtaining the most poin...
St. Mary K-5 students and their mothers participated in the second annual St. Mary Mother/Son Tournament of Champions
St. Mary K-5 students and their mothers participated in the second annual St. Mary Mother/Son Tournament of Champions. 10/23/2024 06:26 PM
Blood drive in Empire
Blood drive in Empire
The Glen Lake Community Library in Empire will host a Versiti blood drive Friday, Oct. 25 from 11 a.m. 10/23/2024 06:26 PM
Cancer fund receives donation
Cancer fund receives donation
The Leelanau County Cancer Fund (LCCF) is benefiting from the Enterprise tribute page for Breast Cancer Awareness month. “We’re always so helpful for donations that come our way,” said Terry Gremel of the Cancer Fund, which helps cancer patients and families that need help paying non-medical expenses. 10/23/2024 06:26 PM
Joseph and Mag Brunson with four of their five children: Quincy, George, Joe, & Archie, 1917. Photo Source: Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear Online Archive
Spotlight on the Brunson family of Port Oneida
This continues a series adapted from the book, “A Port Oneida Collection,” Volume 1 of the twopart set, “Oral History, Photographs, and Maps from the Sleeping Bear Region,” produced by Tom Van Zoeren in partnership with Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear. Here we have a look at the Brunson Farm, along the northern portion of Thoreson Road: Like many Port Oneida farms, the land that became the Brunson Farm was earlier owned and logged by timber baron Thomas P. Kelderhouse. It was subsequently inherited by his daughter Margaret, who married Joseph Brunson (or “Bronson”, as many documents say), also of the Port Oneida area. The Brunsons built a farm and raised five children. Leonard Thoreson remembered Margaret, who went by “Mag”: “You’d walk by here sometimes, you’d hear her singing & playing the organ. She wasn’t a good player, but she enjoyed it.” She played mostly hymns on her foot-pumped organ. 10/23/2024 06:26 PM
LEELANAU HISTORY
LEELANAU HISTORY
Kate Bardenhagen and David L. (Davey) Noonan have six children under age 10 between them. 10/23/2024 06:26 PM
Leland Township trustee Mariann Kirch created a sign for the municipality that would likely be placed in the future outside of the township’s building off Main Street. The sign is 45 inches across referencing the 45th Parallel, the two trees represent Leland and Lake Leelanau, and the whal...
Leland Twp. IDs ARPA funds for sidewalk project
Leland Township unanimously approved obligating $106,486 in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to go towards phase two of the municipality’s sidewalk construction project last week. In addition to obligating ARPA funds, the township took action Oct. 10/23/2024 06:26 PM
BARR
Barr challenges Bergman for seat in Congress
Incumbent Jack Bergman, representative for the First Congressional District, is being challenged by Democratic nominee Callie Barr. Barr is an educator, lawyer, military-family advocate, mom of two young girls, and a fifth-generation northern Michigander who graduated from Cheboygan High School and the University of Michigan Law School. 10/23/2024 06:26 PM
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