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Munson Healthcare provided this photo of one of their newest volunteers at the Cowell Family Cancer Center in Traverse City, Willie Worm. Worm started volunteering in February, shortly after his wife passed away from cancer. When asked what he liked most about volunteering at Munson, he sa...
Volunteers valuable asset to Munson
Although Munson Medical Center is located past county lines in the neighboring Grand Traverse County, its robust volunteer program attracts many Leelanau County residents who are eager to help patients and their friends and families. 07/17/2024 05:06 PM
Glen Lake Middle School student Samuel Feeney is pictured with Connor McCaw in the background during a recent Glen Arbor Art Center (GAAC) monthly class. The new partnership between LIFT and GAAC gives students at Glen Lake Middle School the chance to take various art classes. Courtesy pho...
GAAC partners with LIFT to offer classes to G-L students
Thanks to a new and unique partnership, Glen Lake Middle School students will have the chance to take monthly art classes at Glen Arbor Arts Center (GAAC) for the next year. GAAC is partnering with the local nonprofit youth program LIFT to offer these art classes made possible by a generous donation from the Glen Lake Women’s Club. 07/17/2024 05:06 PM
The Glen Arbor Art Association’s annual Plein Air painting event is set for Aug. 3 and 4. Enterprise photo by Brian Frieberger
Plein Air painters inspired by nature
The unmatched beauty of Leelanau County, from sand dunes to the Great Lake and everything in between, attracts artists from around the country for three principal art events every summer. In Northport and Glen Arbor, artists and visitors alike have the unique opportunity to experience the magic of plein air painting, while the Suttons Bay Art Festival boasts all types of art from ceramic pieces to paintings and even clothing items. 07/17/2024 05:06 PM
Wild strawberries, which frequents the southern lower peninsula and form colonies and ground covers, prefer to grow in drier, open, sunny areas. It naturally occurs in woods and clearings, as well as along roadsides and in fields. Enterprise photo by Meakalia Previch-Liu
Wild strawberries
Wild strawberries, which frequents the southern lower peninsula and form colonies and ground covers, prefer to grow in drier, open, sunny areas. It naturally occurs in woods and clearings, as well as along roadsides and in fields. 07/17/2024 05:06 PM
WESSELL
Board defends Wessell
Jamie Kramer resigned as Leelanau County’s District No. 1 commissioner on July 9. 07/17/2024 05:06 PM
The two biggest lake associations in the county are taking aim at eradicating purple loosestrife, including this plant found growing south of the Lake Leelanau Narrows. Enterprise photo by Alan Campbell
Beetles battle invasive plants
Showy purple loosestrife is bearing its color, which makes this the perfect time for the two largest lake associations in the county to attack the pest. The Lake Leelanau Lake Association is pinning part of its control approach to a beetle that’s a picky eater while the Glen Lake Association is resorting to hand-to-hand combat. 07/17/2024 05:06 PM
Leif Sporck of Sporck Tileart was very busy yesterday at the Glen Lake Womens Club Art Fair. Enterprise photo by Brian Freiberger
Leif Sporck
Leif Sporck of Sporck Tileart was very busy yesterday at the Glen Lake Womens Club Art Fair. 07/17/2024 05:06 PM
HARTESVELT
Hartesvelt named finance director
Leelanau County’s interim administrator, Richard Lewis, said Tuesday that Cathy Hartesvelt has been hired as permanent finance director, after she served as interim finance director for almost nine months. She has been department head since the last permanent director, Sean Cowan, left the county in October 2023. 07/17/2024 05:06 PM
Enterprise wins 26 national awards
Enterprise wins 26 national awards
The Leelanau Enterprise has earned 26 awards in the National Newspaper Association’s Editorial and Advertising Contest. The contest is open to all newspapers in the country. 07/17/2024 05:06 PM
Northport Public School 8th grader Jack Scripps (left) and 7th grader Lilly Gmoser-Duhamel (right) carefully measure the water to add to their rocket on rocket launch day as part of the NASA Artemis Challenge. Photo courtesy of Karen Trolenberg
Npt. students win Space Center trip
A group of Northport middle school students will be heading to the Kennedy Space Center in Naples, Florida in August after being selected as one of the winning teams in NASA’s 2024 Artemis ROADS II National Challenge. 07/10/2024 03:48 PM
GTB to distribute $643,166 in 2% payouts
GTB to distribute $643,166 in 2% payouts
The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians (GTB) announced last week that it will distribute $643,166 in local 2% payouts for its summer allocation cycle of video gaming revenue. The amount is a signifi cant increase of more than $35,000 from the last two summer allocation cycles, which was $605,175 in 2022, and $601,770 in 2023. 07/10/2024 03:48 PM
3 Trees offers music
3 Trees offers music
Three Trees is a space for gathering, healing, and honoring the offerings of the land. Their concert series, Three Trees Sounds, launched on June 24 with folk duo Ask Carol from Norway, giving way to a run of notable Michigan acts including Jordan Hamilton, Jake Allen, and Dixon’s violin. 07/10/2024 03:48 PM

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