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In an effort to support families in need this holiday season
In an effort to support families in need this holiday season
In an effort to support families in need this holiday season. 12/20/2023 09:57 PM
Santa Claus is coming to Omena Christmas Eve
Santa Claus is coming to Omena Christmas Eve
The town of Omena was festive and bright. When Rosie went downtown on Christmas Eve night. 12/20/2023 09:57 PM
WETHERBEE
Npt. school superintendent rated ‘effective’ again
The Northport Public School Board of Education (BOE) unanimously voted December 11 to approve the rating of superintendent Neil Wetherbee as “effective” for his 2023 district leader evaluation. Unlike other school districts in Leelanau County, Northport does not produce an evaluation document with specific ratings of each domain. However, Wetherbee said the district continues to follow the Marzano Teacher Evaluation System, one of the evaluations recommended by the Michigan Council of Educator Effectiveness. 12/20/2023 09:57 PM
St. Mary School students created and mailed out Christmas cards to special friends including elderly community members, donors and local priests. Here, seventh grader Marie Hobbins paints Christmas cards for St. Mary School special friends. Courtesy photo
St. Mary School students
St. Mary School students. 12/20/2023 09:57 PM
Madison and Savannah Potes, from left, are shown decorating cookies at a recent Parenting Communities event. The girls are from Northport. Photo courtesy of Courtney Yaple
Madison and Savannah Potes
Madison and Savannah Potes, from left, are shown decorating cookies at a recent Parenting Communities event. The girls are from Northport. 12/20/2023 09:57 PM
Lee. Twp. to stream via YouTube
Lee. Twp. to stream via YouTube
People interested in tuning in online to Leelanau Township board meetings will have to watch via YouTube starting in January. The three month “trial” will give board trustees a chance to gauge how well streaming meetings via YouTube works versus Zoom, a video conferencing platform continuously used by the township since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. 12/20/2023 09:57 PM
The Bolton barn just north of Empire on M-22 is decoarated each year with a large, but simple, Christmas wreath. Enterprise photo by Amy Hubbell
Home for the Holidays
Construction is completed on the Vineyard View Apartments, an affordable housing complex on Marek Road in Suttons Bay off M-204. HomeStretch Housing, the nonprofit corporation behind the project, told the newspaper that they expect all eight units to be occupied between Christmas and New Years. 12/20/2023 09:57 PM
Robert Barnes of Glen Arbor’s non-profit Free Bikes 4 Kidz Detroit” (FB4K) has brought smiles to more than 12,000 children in the Detroit area by providing new bikes and helmets. Courtesy photo
Non-profit brings smiles to kids
Robert Barnes relocated to Glen Arbor about a year and a half ago, having vacationed in the area with his wife for the past 25 years. With his family visiting since the 1950s, Barnes has always cherished opportunities to reside on the peninsula. 12/20/2023 09:57 PM
MPA weighs in on FOIA
MPA weighs in on FOIA
A workplace climate/culture survey at the Leelanau County government center is under fire by Leelanau County commissioner Melinda Lautner, who feels that the consultant contracted to perform the survey may be influenced by correspondence between the county’s personnel committee and employees. 12/20/2023 09:57 PM
Board acts on consent agenda
Board acts on consent agenda
The Leelanau County Board of Commissioners held its monthly regular session early on the second Tuesday of the month, and made the following actions under its consent agenda: • Approved a $249,058 contract with the Michigan Municipal Risk Management Authority, renewing their property and casualty insurance with the agency through 2024. 12/13/2023 05:43 PM
Correction:
Correction:
An article appearing in the Nov. 22 Enterprise needs correcting. 12/13/2023 05:43 PM
Holiday potluck in Empire
Holiday potluck in Empire
It’s a busy time of year, people running around Christmas shopping, getting ready for company, decorating the houses and just doing the things they do this time a year. So far the weather has held on for traveling, but who knows what can happen. 12/13/2023 05:43 PM

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