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Celebrate maritime history

Celebrate maritime history

The 3rd annual Leelanau Maritime History Festival is set for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 08/21/2024 09:15 PM

Corrections:

A large bird included in a photo ran in Section 2 last week was misidentified. The bird is not a sandhill crane. It is a Great Blue Heron. *** Jack Anderson won grand champion for open class goat showmanship at the Northwestern Michigan Fair. 08/21/2024 09:15 PM

Admin. hiring put off

Admin. hiring put off

The Leelanau County Board of Commissioners seems to have reached a consensus Tuesday that the next board should choose their own administrator, as the current board is unlikely to hire one before the Nov. 5 elections anyway. 08/14/2024 04:33 PM

Minimum wage hike impacts all

Minimum wage hike impacts all

Announcement of minimum wage increases has Leelanau Country establishments looking over their finances with concern for the future of their businesses and the people they employ. Knot Just a Bar owner David Waskiewicz said it is not uncommon for a server to make $25-30 an hour after tips with a professional server bringing home a yearly W-2 of $50,000. 08/14/2024 04:33 PM

Sweet cherry harvest dismal

Sweet cherry harvest dismal

In an Aug. 2 letter from Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsacik, she pleaded for relief as “Michigan is experiencing a natural disaster for sweet cherry production.” 08/14/2024 04:33 PM

Actress Amy Smart and chef and author Mario Batali, from left, led the Northport Dog Parade. See story and more coverage on Pg. 11, Section 2. Enterprise photo by Brian Frieberger.

Actress Amy Smart and chef and author Mario Batali

Actress Amy Smart and chef and author Mario Batali, from left, led the Northport Dog Parade. 08/14/2024 04:33 PM

Cleveland addresses Segment 9

Cleveland addresses Segment 9

Construction of a controversial proposal to extend of the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail (SBHT) failed to get support this week from the Cleveland Township Board. However, a final decision is expected during the board’s September meeting. 08/14/2024 04:33 PM

Former Omena Mayor tapped as grand marshal

Former Omena Mayor tapped as grand marshal

The Office of former Omena Mayor, Rosie Disch, is pleased to announce that she will be the Grand Marshal of the Cedar Polka Fest Parade on Saturday, August 24 at 1 p.m. The organizers were anxiously awaiting the results of the recent election in Omena to invite the new mayor. However, when it was announced that the mayor was a horse and the vice mayors were cats, the honor fell to Rosie. Not only is the theme of the event this year “The Dog Days of Summer”, but, as the organizers explained, the horse would not fit in the convertible, and the cats would be hard to see above the dashboard. 08/14/2024 04:33 PM

Thousands of people line the street of Northport to get a chance to pet dogs that were participating during the dog parade. Enterprise photo by Brian Freiberger

Northport Dog parade

Hundreds of pups filled the streets of Northport on Sunday during the 17th annual Northport Dog Parade. All were good boys and girls. 08/14/2024 04:33 PM

First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Suttons Bay will celebrate 150 years on Aug. 24. Courtesy photo

S-B Church marks 150 years

First Lutheran Church of Suttons Bay will celebrate its 150th anniversary Aug. 24. 08/14/2024 04:33 PM

LEELANAU HISTORY

LEELANAU HISTORY

The owners of what could arguably be the most lavish home in northern Michigan are asking the state Tax Tribunal reduce their property tax assessment. The Celebration Life Trust is appealing the Leland Township Board of Review’s decision to deny a request to reduce the assessment on the property which, according to township records, has a true cash value of just over $24 million. *** Jim Munoz remembers the first time he saw the man who would become his best friend — Larry Glass. Glass was down on a dock at Fishtown, trying to catch a fish, Munoz said he was across the river from Glass and knew that a Big Ten coach had moved to Leland. “I walked over and introduced myself and that was the beginning of a 50-plus year friendship,” he said. Glass, 84, died Monday at Medilodge in Suttons Bay. 08/14/2024 04:33 PM

Nels and Alvin Fredrickson planting potatoes by machine in the early 1900s. Photo from “A History of Leelanau Township” by the Leelanau Township Historical Writers Group

Potatoes deeply rooted in county history

When the white men came, they found the Indians raising potatoes. A few days after Rev. 08/14/2024 04:33 PM

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