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Susie Morrison and her twin granddaughters, Eleanor and Johanna Tock, from Holland, Michigan, enjoyed the Omena Bridge Walk and the Rubber Duck Race which followed. Johanna is now the two-winner of the Duck Race. Photo courtesy of Susie Morrison
Perfect weather for Omena bridge walk
The weather was absolutely perfect on Labor Day for the 11th Omena Labor Day Bridge Walk. A record attendance at the event was set with almost 60 people and two dogs participating in the shortest Labor Day Bridge Walk. For about half a dozen of them, it was their first hike across Bob’s Brook, named in honor of Bob Krist, who hosted the first Omena Bridge Walk back in 2013. Many thanks to John Putnam for continuing the fun event. 09/04/2024 03:50 PM
Library programs set
Library programs set
The Leelanau Township Library will host three community events this month. An introduction to hospice care is scheduled for 2 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 09/04/2024 03:50 PM
Leelanau Cheese stop on state tour
Leelanau Cheese stop on state tour
A Leelanau County fromagerie will be part of an Michigan State University Extension later this month. Leelanau Cheese of Suttons Bay will be the final cheesemaking facility on a four-stop tour Sept. 09/04/2024 03:50 PM
Witches Brew is expanding national wide for the spooky season this fall. Courtesy photo
Witches Brew expands nationwide
As Witches Brew season kicks off, Leelanau Cellars is thrilled to announce that its beloved Witches Brew will be available in 41 states this fall. This marks the largest distribution of the popular wine in over two decades. 09/04/2024 03:50 PM
Shop closing doors after 22 years
Shop closing doors after 22 years
Classic Consignment, a beloved consignment shop in the northern Michigan community for over two decades, is set to close its doors in December 2024. The store, known for its collection of classic finds and timeless treasures, has stopped accepting new consignments as of August 30. 09/04/2024 03:50 PM
Bay Theatre launches New ‘Live at the Bay’
Bay Theatre launches New ‘Live at the Bay’
The Bay Community Theatre is launching a new live entertainment series in downtown Suttons Bay called “Live at the Bay,” with the inaugural fall 2024 season featuring artists from across Michigan and the U.S., including renowned acapella, comedy, live film accompaniment, and jazz/blues performances. 09/04/2024 03:50 PM
The Dembowske family of Suttons Bay showed up in force for the Lake Leelanau bridge walk. From left are patriarch Bob Dembowske; Isla Korson, 3; duck race winner Edyn Gallagher, 8; Ashley Gallagher, who is holding her daughter, Sutton, 3; Dee Dembowske; and Shannon Korson, who is holding Z...
8-year-old wins duck derby
You get the feeling 8-year-old Edyn Gallagher will handle whatever life throws at her. Still grinning, she was asked about her plans for the $60 she won during the Lake Leelanau Labor Day bridge walk and rubber duck derby. 09/04/2024 03:50 PM
LEELANAU HISTORY
LEELANAU HISTORY
The owner of Sugar Loaf Resort, Jeff Katofsky, is asking everyone to stay off his property “to prevent any harm” until he can come up with “a solution in approximately 30 days” to the resort’s current problems. Sugar Loaf Resort’s current problems include the fact that it is out of compliance with a 2017 order from the county that the resort be thoroughly fenced off and boarded up in keeping with state Construction Code requirements. *** The Grand Traverse Band last week hosted the first public action toward renewing or writing a new tribal decree regulating commercial and sports fishing in the Great Lakes. The decree affects the lives of many county residents and visitors — and controls the livelihoods of some. “I think it’s very important to everyone in the country because I think the Great Lakes are the crown jewels of America,” said Bill “Bear” Fowler, who fishes commercially off the shoreline of Leelanau through a license issued by the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. 09/04/2024 03:50 PM
The Belanger (formerly Manseau) Mill was established in 1856. Courtesy photo
First white settlers of Suttons Bay
The following is an excerpt from the Suttons Bay Sesquicentennial Celebration publication. Laura Lindley’s book includes a profile of Cassimere Boischer & Harriet LeDuc who built their cabin on the shore of Suttons Bay back in 1855. 09/04/2024 03:50 PM
GAP to perform Noel Coward’s ‘Private Lives’
GAP to perform Noel Coward’s ‘Private Lives’
An explosive divorced couple, honeymooning with their new spouses, find they have adjacent rooms in the same hotel and that they still have feelings for each other. If this were the stuff of situation comedies, you would expect the next sentence to have mayhem ensues in it, like an episode of “I Love Lucy.” However, in his 1930 play “Private Lives”, Noel Coward’s genius transforms it into a poignant, witty, and very funny satire about social conventions that restrict us but also civilize us. 09/04/2024 03:50 PM
Grandparents Day, 9/11 anniversary coming up
Grandparents Day, 9/11 anniversary coming up
I know this is past , but I hope everyone enjoyed the bridge walk. I’m sure everyone knows this is number 29 and I’m also sure everyone will enjoy a number 30. Ours is known as the original small town bridge wall. There are many more now, if there’s a puddle, small stream etc. There’s a bridge walk but we were the first and we are the best. 09/04/2024 03:50 PM
Michele Aucello, Ania Spitzner, Meg Barber, Lori Lyman, Stacy Ziegenfelder, Alex Newton, Roger Newton, and instructor Gabriel Biderman. Courtesy photo
Capturing stars at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
National Parks At Night made its fourth photography workshop appearance at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (SBDNL) hosted by the Glen Arbor Arts Center last week. Locals and workshop attendees Michele Aucello, Ania Spitzner, Meg Barber, Lori Lyman, Stacy Ziegenfelder, Alex Newton, Roger Newton, and instructor Gabriel Biderman adventured into the night to capture the best of northwest Michigan. 09/04/2024 03:50 PM

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