Saturday, May 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM

Sign in

Life in Leelaneu

Library offers workshop

Library offers workshop

The Glen Lake Library in Empire will host Wendy Weckstein of Northern Michigan Psychiatric Services next Wednesday, May 15. The topic of her presentation is on mindfulness-based stress reduction often associated with aging: depression, anxiety, loneliness, physical limitations, cognitive decline and more. 05/08/2024 04:54 PM

April Mclaren enjoy a hike on the Leelanau Peninsula. She is a woman of many skills with a specialty in textile design and pottery. Courtesy photo

McLaren creates art with clay/textiles

Leelanau resident April McLaren showed off her pottery at the Heartwood Forest Farm 2024 Herb Fest Saturday. Along with making pottery, she has a unique background that has led her all over the world and to the Leelanau Peninsula. McLaren has a blossoming pottery business from her Leelanau farm. 05/08/2024 04:54 PM

Traverse City Impact100 offers grants

Traverse City Impact100 offers grants

Impact100 Traverse City will have $348,000 to distribute to area non-profits this year. Three nonprofits will each receive $116,000 in transformational funding after Impact100 selects the recipients by membership vote in September. 05/01/2024 05:08 PM

Kelly Slater of Suttons Bay, vice president of the Traverse City Track Club, poses in front of the waters of Lake Michigan. Courtesy photo

Slater has fingers ‘in many pies’

The people of Leelanau County generally seem to understand the virtues of charity, and Kelly Slater of Suttons Bay is a good example of this regional characteristic. Slater said that she has her fingers “in many pies,” and among them are the Traverse City Track Club, Green Suttons Bay, and the Friends of Suttons Bay-Bingham District Library. 05/01/2024 05:08 PM

Empire spring clean-up set

Empire spring clean-up set

The Village of Empire will hold its annual spring cleanup on Wednesday and Thursday, May 8 and 9. Residents are asked to leave bagged leaves and brush in piles next to their street or alley by 8 a.m. 04/24/2024 04:43 PM

Pancakes, Restaurant week in G-A

Pancakes, Restaurant week in G-A

This is one of my most favorite times of year, although we didn’t have a bad winter people seem to come alive at this time year. Hear the hammers and the leaf blowers and everybody is getting ready for a great summer. 04/24/2024 04:43 PM

Matthew Branton

Matthew Branton:

Matthew Branton, owner of North Country Kitchen and Bar in Suttons Bay, has been operating the establishment for the past year since closing on the purchase from Karen Boone in March 2023. Since opening last June, Branton moved to Leelanau County to run his newest business venture and has been getting acclimated to working in the restaurant industry. 04/24/2024 04:43 PM

Isabelle Scott merges science, art, and tradition through bioactive skincare, whole plant remedies and natural dyes through her Circles and Cycles business. Enterprise photo by Brian Freiberger

Nuturing Nature:

In Northport, Isabelle Scott, affectionately known as “Isa,” has been forging her unique path as a herbalist and the proprietor of Circles & Cycles. Since its inception in 2019, Circles & Cycles has grown from a personal passion project to a thriving business offering a range of herbal products. 04/17/2024 05:24 PM

Sidewalks OK’d by township

Sidewalks OK’d by township

Spring activities dominated conversation this week by the Leland Township Board. The board during its regular monthly meeting Monday acted on proposals that signal the arrival of spring and warmer weather. 04/10/2024 03:54 PM

Groups seek input on survey

Groups seek input on survey

The Leelanau County Housing Collaborative, a group of four organizations focused on creating a Housing Action Plan for Leelanau County, is announcing the housing survey to help bring housing for all to Leelanau County. 04/10/2024 03:54 PM

Doug McInnes, of Northport, accepts an award from the Northern Michigan Environmental Action Committee for his work to bring clean, renewable energy to Leelanau County. In 2008, McInnes was a founding member of the Northport Energy Action Task Force, which is now known as Leelanau Energy....

McInnis, ‘rocket man’ calls Npt. home

Doug McInnis, a Leelanau County resident living in Northport, has made his mark on the county as one of the founders of Leelanau Energy, a community action agency advocating for clean energy like solar and wind power. 04/10/2024 03:54 PM

Northport native Kelly Kehl, an esthetician and herbalist specializing in holistic skin care, slow beauty, and herbal medicine, is pictured outside of her new workspace for her business “Little Beauty Kitchen.” Her new studio and retail area is located in downtown Northport just inside of...

Kelly Kehl opens Little Beauty Kitchen in Npt

Kelly Kehl, who moved back to the Village of Northport in January with her husband, John, recently opened her very own “Little Beauty Kitchen” business location downtown. Kehl, an herbalist, artist, and esthetician, said she could not be more happy to continue her work at the new space in Barb’s Bakery. 04/03/2024 05:09 PM

1

...

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

...