Members of the Suttons Bay-Bingham Fire and Rescue Department are seeking to unionize.

The head of the fire and rescue authority, Suttons Bay Township supervisor Rich Bahle, said he was “mystified” by the move, and could not explain why the department’

The Suttons Bay Township Board last week heard the presentation that Leelanau Conservation District representatives have been giving to units of government and other groups throughout the Leelanau County about the fight against the invasive weed phragmite

The Suttons Bay Township Board last week adopted a zoning ordinance amendment that will allow property owners in all zoning districts to install “small wind energy systems” to provide electricity for their own property.

Adoption of the amendment follow

The Suttons Bay Township Board last week adopted two zoning ordinance amendments that the township Planning Commission had been working on for more than a year.

One amendment clarifies requirements for parking motor vehicles in various settings through

The Village of Suttons Bay has a new, interim harbormaster following the resignation of Tom Krantz.

At its regular monthly meeting Monday evening, the Village Council accepted Krantz’s resignation. In a two-sentence letter of resignation dated July 2

The Village of Suttons Bay Planning Commission finalized work on its “signs ordinance” last week and will bring it to a public hearing sometime in the coming months, according to staff planner Kathy Finch.

A public hearing on new zoning ordinance langu

Barring unforseen circumstances, members of the Suttons Bay Township Board and the family of the late Ralph Herman were to sign closing documents yesterday, July 15, on the sale of some 120 acres of land at the corner of Herman Road and County Road 633 (C

The Suttons Bay Township Planning Commission will draft a new “form-based code” for the township that may eventually replace the traditional zoning ordinance currently in use.

If the township adopts the code, it will be the first rural township in Mich

The Suttons Bay Township Board held a special meeting last week to endorse requests for “2 percent” tribal casino funding that were to be forwarded to the Tribal Council of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians by a June 30 deadline.

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In an unusually short half-hour meeting, the Suttons Bay Village Council this week adopted a series of “generic” resolutions required by changes in state law related to municipal planning commissions.

Public Act 33 of 2008 clarifies requirements for mu