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Fleis auction underway
Fleis auction underway
The highly anticipated 2024 Annual Fundraiser and Auction for the Ed and Irene Fleis Educational opening yesterday and closing on Nov. 24, 2024. 11/13/2024 05:42 PM
Glen Lake BOE reviews bond strategy
Glen Lake BOE reviews bond strategy
The Glen Lake Board of Education reviewed bond underwriting options, received an update on construction plans, and considered an athletic trainer stipend at its regular meeting on Monday. The Laker community recently passed an $8.175 million bond proposal. 11/13/2024 05:42 PM
Glen Lake band director Elaina Abarrak has been leading the charge for the marching Lakers, who performed at school football games this fall. Enterprise photo by Brian Freiberger
GL band surging
The Glen Lake Band program rocked the stadium during Glen Lake football games all season as students prepare for the upcoming concert season in the winter. Glen Lake band director Elaina Abarrak has been leading the charge for the marching Lakers, along with an eager group of freshmen and sophomores who are taking the reins and making the program their own. 11/13/2024 05:42 PM
While Allen Riggie says he “just got lucky” when still-hunting up to a 21-point buck on North Manitou, he’s a veteran island hunter who has taken a 10-point near his home in Midland. Courtesy photo
N. Manitou hunt successful
No matter how measured — from good behavior to bountiful harvests to the 21 points on perhaps the biggest island buck ever shot — the eight-day North Manitou deer hunt that ended Nov. 3 was one of the most successful on record. 11/13/2024 05:42 PM
Switchback will perform Nov. 22 at the Old Art Building in Leland. Courtesy photo
Celtic Christmas at Old Art Building
The Old Art Building in Leland presents Switchback — a Celtic Christmas Concert — Friday, Nov. 22. 11/13/2024 05:42 PM
The Glen Lake defense celebrate after forcing a turnnover against Beal City Friday. Photos courtesy of Meredith McNabb
Lakers fall in regional final
Glen Lake (9-2) football fell to Beal City (9-2) 21-14 Friday in a MHSAA Div. 4 regional playoff game. 11/13/2024 05:42 PM
Lake Leelanau St. Mary junior Maggie Ursu spikes the ball against Suttons Bay Wednesday during a district semifinal game. Enterprise photo by Brian Freiberger
Eagles grounded in district final
Lake Leelanau St. Mary (2716-3) fell in a district final volleyball game Thursday 3-0 against T-C Christian 13-25, 17-25, 18-25. 11/13/2024 05:42 PM
Football Dream Team
Football Dream Team
Another fall football season passes for Glen Lake and Suttons Bay. With stadiums packed and students showing school pride, parents watching their boys on Friday night is a feeling like no other. Both the Lakers and the Norsemen left it all under the Friday night lights. The Dream Team is voted on by Glen Lake coach Jesse Smith, Suttons Bay coach Garrick Opie, and Enterprise sports editor Brian Freiberger. 11/13/2024 05:42 PM
Volleyball Dream Team
Volleyball Dream Team
The 2024 volleyball season is in the books after a competitive season among local teams. The 2024 Enterprise Volleyball Dream Team selections were made by coach Stephany Peplinski (Glen Lake), Travis Baker (Leland), Olivia Dohm (Suttons Bay), Alyssa Bunek (St. 11/13/2024 05:42 PM
LEELANAU HISTORY
LEELANAU HISTORY
Not everyone in Leelanau County was complaining about the huge piles of snow facing them Tuesday morning. Liz Fay’s two preschool children seemed to think the snow this week was a lot nicer than the snow that hit Leelanau County last Thursday. It was fluffier. “Playing in the snowbanks was a lot easier this week,” said Fay, a full-time wife and mother and a part-time registered nurse at Munson Medical Center. *** Usually Leelanau County is considered one geographical unit. On Monday and Tuesday, though, there were two Leelanau County’s — the parts receiving up to three feet of snow and the parts that didn’t. The western part of Leelanau County from Northport down to Empire saw the impacts of a lake-effect snow event that closed Glen Lake Community School at noon on Monday and resulted in numerous stranded vehicles 11/13/2024 05:42 PM
Richard and Katie Werner pose for a portrait with their family and home: from left Richard, Herman, August, Rachel, Katie, and Ella c. 1893 Photo Source: Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear Online Archive
Werner farm divvied up among sibs
This continues a series adapted from the book, “A Port Oneida Collection,” Volume 1 of the twopart set, “Oral History, Photographs, and Maps from the Sleeping Bear Region,” produced by Tom Van Zoeren in partnership with Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear. Here we have a look at the Richard & Katie Werner Farm, along M-22 just south of the bend by Thoreson Road. 11/13/2024 05:42 PM
The Munnecke room at Leland Township Library was packed for the public hearing with Sunset Shores residents and neighbors both concerned and supportive of the proposed ongoing project that’s been years in the making. Enterprise photo by Meakalia Previch-Liu
Leland Twp. tables Sunset Shores project
An amended resolution to establish a special assessment community sewer at Sunset Shores was tabled Monday night at Leland Township’s regular monthly meeting. All other action items on the agenda concerning Sunset Shores, including approving the Sunset Shores special assessment district (SAD) roll, awarding bids for the project, and setting a date for public hearing on the sunset shores roll, were also all tabled. 11/13/2024 05:42 PM

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