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Due to incomplete information the name a junior at St. Mary School was not listed in a recently-published honor roll. 05/22/2024 04:45 PM

Members and volunteers of the Leelanau Conservancy are seen hard at work, maintaining the mountain bike trails at Palmer Woods Forest Reserve Tuesday night. Enterprise photo by Everett Howell

Members and volunteers of the Leelanau Conservancy are seen hard at work

Members and volunteers of the Leelanau Conservancy are seen hard at work, maintaining the mountain bike trails at Palmer Woods Forest Reserve Tuesday night. 05/15/2024 05:44 PM

Task force not ‘public body’

Task force not ‘public body’

The Energy Futures Task Force was appointed by the Leelanau County Board of Commissioners in September and held its first meeting in October. For its first three or four monthly meetings, the task force did not post prior notices on leelanau.gov or make minutes publicly available. 05/15/2024 05:44 PM

8 candidates selected for interviews

8 candidates selected for interviews

The Leelanau County Board of Commissioners has narrowed down the pool of applicants for the new county administrator/chief financial officer (CFO) position and will interview candidates at 10 a.m. on May 30 and 9 a.m. on May 31. 05/15/2024 05:44 PM

Short-term rentals divide Empire

Short-term rentals divide Empire

Fireworks at the Village of Empire monthly workshop meeting lit up the room as council, committee, and community members sparred over possible regulations regarding Short-Term Rentals (STRs) Thursday, May 9. 05/15/2024 05:44 PM

Dock removal causes uproar

Dock removal causes uproar

A decrepit but popular dock used by boaters visiting Leland has been removed with little chance that it will be replaced. The 96-foot dock, which lined the Leland River at a state-owned boat launch located between the Bluebird and Riverside restaurants, was removed on April 10 by a MDNR crew. 05/15/2024 05:44 PM

Students from Leland Public School suit up to make a clean sweep throughout the unincorporated village. Courtesy photo

Leland Public School earns green designation

The Leland School community celebrated Earth Day with big accomplishment under its belt. The school became the second in the county to be recognized as an “evergreen school” by the Michigan Green Schools program. 05/15/2024 05:44 PM

Patty Travioli grows farm cultivated culinary and medicinal herbs at Heartwood Forest Farm in Solon Township. Enterprise photo by Brian Freiberger

‘Apothecary Farmer’ marks 10 years of growth

Patty Travioli has set up her Heartwood Forest Farm for success as the local “Apothecary Farmer” celebrates 10 years of growing on the Leelanau Peninsula delicate lands. Heartwood Forest Farm hosted an open house on National Herb Day earlier this month. 05/15/2024 05:44 PM

NMC dean’s list includes Leelanau residents

NMC dean’s list includes Leelanau residents

More than 70 county residents were named to the dean’s list at Northwestern Michigan College for the recently ended semester. They are, in alphabetical order: Cameron Alberts, Corbin Alberts, Eliza Bardenhagen, Ruby Bardenhagen, Danica Bonter, Brooklyn Brittain, Joseph Buffum, Mcguire Butz, Karin Chrostek, Derek Councilor, Abbigail Couturier, Libby Couturier, Olivia Craker, Avalon Davidson, Christian Edson, Liam Eldred, Payton Fewins, Samuel Fikes, Benjamin Filipkowski, Zoe Fisher, Kate Forton, Anthony Grant, Keira Greene, Justine Greenfelder, Jacqueline Gregory, Piper Hartley, Hazel Heilman, Henry Heitman, Carley Hooper, Everett Howell, Bailey Jacobs-Hart, Melissa Kilway, Chedra King, Kylen Kintigh, Madison Lammers, Ella Laureto, John Leachman,William Lewellen, Nicholas Lingaur, Jessica Loucks, Emma Marion, Allison Martin, Gavino Martinelli, Elloura McLincha, Elizabeth Meyer, Anna Mitchell, Daniel Nolan, Wesley Peplinski, Carlos Perez, Destiny Peterson, Rachel Priest, Morgan Reames, Isabella Rice, Sydney Richardson, Clarissa Rohrback, Matt Rybicki, Nathan Sanderson, Justina Schaub, Samuel Schutte, Kai Wyn Segerlind, Lily Serrano, Violeta Serrano, Ella Sheffer, Riley Sheffer, Haden Shorter, Toby Smart, Savannah Smith,William Stevenson, Jenaya Thoreson, Heather Trudeau, Gwyneth Vanden Belt, Cody Wall, Piper Weston, Michael Willis, Bella Wolf and Logan Zamora.. 05/15/2024 05:44 PM

LEELANAU HISTORY

LEELANAU HISTORY

The Leelanau County Board of Commissioners appeared to overcome a case of “sticker shock” Tuesday and decided to move ahead on two projects that could cost taxpayers nearly $5 million over the next year. The price for a new roof on the county’s Law Enforcement Center (LEC) has been set at $1.2 million – about 30% higher than originally anticipated. *** Leelanau Township Clerk Deborah Van Pelt has submitted her resignation. Supervisor Doug Scripps said Van Pelt submitted a letter of resignation at the township board’s regular meeting Tuesday, adding Van Pelt would like the resignation to take effect at the end of the month. Scripps said the board Tuesday didn’t vote on whether to accept the letter of resignation, adding it plans to do so at the board’s regular meeting in June. 05/15/2024 05:44 PM

Omena Historic District, thought to be “the most intact 19th-century village in the state,” includes Omena Presbyterian Church. Courtesy photo

The importance of historic preservation in Leelanau

My husband, Tim Egeler, and I were married at Port Oneida in the summer of 2021, on the bluff overlooking the site of the dock that Tim’s great-greatgreat- grandfather Thomas Kelderhouse built in 1862. My husband’s great-grandparents — Martin Egeler and Florence May Kelderhouse — who were also married at Port Oneida, are buried in the cemetery on the corner of M-22. 05/15/2024 05:44 PM

Leland Library takes over ‘Summinars’

Leland Library takes over ‘Summinars’

The Leland Township Library offers more than books this summer, as it takes on responsibility for the lasting legacy of the Leelanau Summinars. The library has taken on the Leelanau Summinars, a program that provides an annual lineup of thought-provoking seminars across a wide variety of engaging topics. 05/15/2024 05:44 PM

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