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’

Residents of Bingham Township will have an opportunity Saturday to review the township’s fiscal 2010-11 budget and consider whether to approve salary resolutions adopted earlier this year by their Township Board.

The township’s Annual Meeting will be h

Bingham Township will offer to split the cost of taking down a tree at Bingham Park on South Lake Leelanau with a neighboring cottage owner who is worried that the tree will fall on his property.

Township supervisor Ross Ard said Monday that he’d consu

The Bingham Township Board this week reappointed trustee Mary Bush to a three-year term on the Suttons Bay-Bingham Fire and Rescue Authority.

Bush has served as the Bingham Township Board’s representative on the fire authority board since Suttons Bay a

Bingham Township will pay an engineer $2,640 to analyze water level data for Lawrence Lake to determine the effect of irrigation at a neighboring golf course.

Approval of a special land use permit for the Leelanau Club at Bahle Farm about a decade ago

Bingham Township held its Annual Meeting Saturday morning, but only four of the five township board members and six members of the public attended.

Meeting in the historic Bingham Schoolhouse that serves as the township hall on Center Highway at Bingha

The Bingham Township Board finalized a draft budget Monday for 2009-10 that will be presented during an Annual Meeting of township voters.

No pay raises for elected township officials are reflected in the proposed budget. The township board held a spe

During a three hour-long Bingham Township Planning Commission meeting last week, planners made progress on some longstanding issues related to a special land use permit issued nearly a decade ago for The Leelanau Club at Bahle Farm, a golf course.

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A lawsuit filed in 2007 by former Bingham Township clerk Dorothy Petroskey against former township supervisor Robert Foster has been settled out of court.

Neither Petroskey nor Foster would comment on the settlement, citing a confidentiality agreement.

James H. Porter Jr., currently a captain with the Suttons Bay-Bingham Fire and Rescue Department, has been named to succeed William Calhoun as chief of the department.