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Thank you, Pence

Thank you, Pence

To the editor: I owe former Vice President Pence a debt of gratitude. On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence remained at our nation’s capitol to complete the day’s business of certifying the 2020 election results. 03/20/2024 05:09 PM

Empire chili cook-off

Empire chili cook-off

The Empire community will be hosting a chili cook-off on Saturday, March 23 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Empire Town Hall on Front Street. 03/20/2024 05:09 PM

The Grand Traverse Band

The Grand Traverse Band

The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians’ (GTB) Natural Resources Department (NRD) invited members of the public Thursday and Friday to be part of its annual Sugar Bush event in Peshawbestown. Due to the mild winter, sap production is very limited, and trees are not being tapped, but community members can still stop by to learn about how GTB citizens processed maple sugar using traditional techniques. Thursday is the last day GTB will hold its sugar bushing event from 1 to 4 p.m. 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

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

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

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

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

Plamondon captures boys MVP

Plamondon captures boys MVP

As another boys basketball season comes to a close for Leelanau County teams we celebrate the many accomplishments of Lake Leelanau St. Mary, Glen Lake, Leland and Suttons Bay. 03/20/2024 05:09 PM

Kirt seizes Dream Team MVP

Kirt seizes Dream Team MVP

This year’s girls’ basketball season saw the rise of budding stars. Glen Lake, St. Mary, Suttons Bay, and Leland illuminated the courts, demonstrating why Leelanau County’s girls’ basketball has become essential viewing. With packed crowds and communities rallying behind their teams, each game was a testament to the thriving basketball culture in the region. 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

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

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