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MHA sets programs
MHA sets programs
The Maritime Heritage Alliance has planned a series of programs through April 6. The first program, held last week, was on the shipwrecks of the Manitous. 03/20/2024 05:09 PM
Suttons Bay High School students (from left to right) Reegan Craker, Isabel Schmidt, and Minnie Bardenhagen are pictured at school on Monday. Schmidt and Bardenhagen are finalists in this year’s Young Playwright Festival at the City Opera House, and Craker is a semi-finalist. The three stu...
SB students selected as finalists in Young Playwright Festival
Two Suttons Bay Public High School students are finalists of the six announced in the 13th annual Young Playwright Festival competition. The finalists, Minnie Bardenhagen and Isabel Schmidt, as well as Reegan Craker, a semifinalist, were selected for writing and submitting an original one-act play to a panel of judges. 03/20/2024 05:09 PM
VASA Race Director Opening
VASA Race Director Opening
The North American Vasa Board of Directors is seeking candidates for Race Director for the North American Vasa Festival of Races, held annually during the second weekend of February (see www.Vasa.org). This position is part-time and most of the work is done in the winter months. The Race Director is responsible for working with the Board of Directors to plan and implement a high quality event for competitors, volunteers, spectators and sponsors. The Race Director also serves as the primary spokesperson for the Vasa to the media and community at large. 03/20/2024 05:09 PM
Insight sought: Leland Township
Insight sought: Leland Township
The Leland Township Parks and Recreation Committee has begun the process of developing the next five-year Community Recreation Plan (CRP) for 20252029. The committee is seeking public input via an online survey and other research to help inform the development of a long-range CRP with objectives and priorities that meet the needs and interest of township residents, area residents and visitors year ‘round. 03/20/2024 05:09 PM
Registration open for Northwood Camp
Registration open for Northwood Camp
Registration is open for Northwood University’s Learning About Business (LAB) Week, an immersive camp designed to nurture innovation and entrepreneurship in young aspiring individuals. Scheduled from June 23-28, 2024, the camp will be hosted on the university’s campus in Midland. 03/20/2024 05:09 PM
Bill and Susan Krusel and their son William went all out decorating their ORV for the O’Mena St.Patrick’s Day parade. Courtesy photo
Omena goes green for St. Patrick’s Day
The ninth O’Mena St. Patrick’s Day parade didn’t exactly have the Luck O’ the Irish when it came to the weather. It was a mere 30 degrees with light flurries as the parade began. That did not deter a hardy and fun-loving group of Omena residents from walking or driving the parade route. 03/20/2024 05:09 PM
Eighth graders Alayah Jones, at left, and Elsie Purdy Teahen, at right, are pictured planting seeds in three different mediums: regolith (mock moon soil), a half and half regolith and “earth (Michigan) dirt” mix, and just earth dirt, for the mission objective: gardening on the moon. Photo...
Npt School kids participate in NASA Artemis Challenge
Six Northport Public School students are embarking on a stellar project focused on space exploration of the moon that could earn them a trip to the Kennedy Space Center later this year. Northport school is one of only two schools in Michigan fielding a team in NASA’s nationwide 2024 Artemis ROADS (ROVER Observation and Drone Survey) Challenge. 03/20/2024 05:09 PM
LEELANAU HISTORY
LEELANAU HISTORY
Goldilocks will be in good company this year looking for a place to sleep at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. For the first time ever, there won’t be enough beds to fill summer seasonal housing needs with the Lakeshore’s own stock of government- owned quarters. “We don’t have anywhere to put our seasonal employees,” Sleeping Bear’s deputy superintendent Tom Ulrich said. *** A childhood disease which can be prevented by a vaccine has taken hold in Leelanau County. The Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department (BLDHD) announced Monday there have been six confirmed cases of Pertussis (whooping cough) in the county. All patients are children attending either Glen Lake or St. Mary School. 03/20/2024 05:09 PM
A photograph of the Poor Farm Barn in 1911 shows the original cupola atop the barn’s roof. The builder of the barn, John Schettek, is within the foreground. Photo courtesy of Leelanau County Historic Preservation Society
Poor Farm documentary hits television
The historic Leelanau County Poor Farm is getting its due on WCMU Public Television today and Saturday as “Saving the Barn: The Leelanau County Poor Farm,” a locally produced documentary on the history, preservation and future of the Leelanau Count Poor Farm/ County Infirmary is released. 03/20/2024 05:09 PM
St. Mary High School students compete at the state Business Professionals of America Leadership Conference in Grand Rapids. Courtesy photo
St. Mary BPA qualify for national competition
St. Mary High School students recently competed at the state Business Professionals of America Leadership Conference in Grand Rapids. Teams who ranked in the top three slots, as well as individuals who ranked in the top six spots, qualified for the national competition in Chicago on May 10. Student alternates were also selected based on qualifying results. St. Mary students placed as follows: Team Competition 03/20/2024 05:09 PM
Luke Mullane and Mary Grant are all smiles as they gather for the first St. Mary School Chess Club meeting. Courtesy photo
Children now have chess program
St. Mary School recently launched a chess club for elementary students in second through fifth grade. 03/20/2024 05:09 PM
The Norsemen Robotics team poses after receiving the Quality Award at Traverse City West Senior High School. Front row from left to right: Team members Jacob Gulley and Casey Porter. Middle row left to right: Team members Koen Kruk, Anthony Grant, Jack Shiner, James Miller, Michael Rokita,...
S-B Norsemen Robotics compete in second district event
Norsemen Robotics, made up of students from Suttons Bay, Lake Leelanau St. Mary, and Northport, joined 39 other teams over the weekend at Traverse City West High School to compete in their second district event. The competition consisted of 78 randomized qualification matches, during which each team played as an “alliance” with two others and against three opposing robots. These qualification matches then determined each team’s rank out of the 40 teams present. 03/20/2024 05:09 PM

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