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Glass, U.S. win world volleyball tourney

Alisha Glass of Leland spent all of August overseas playing for the U.S. women’s national volleyball team in the FIVB World Grand Prix Tournament.

As the starting setter for the U.S., Glass guided the team to a gold-medal finish in the tournament. In t

End of 75-year era?

Charles Rennie knows the Greilickville dock across from the Marathon terminal from piling to plank.

“My grandfather, whom I am named for, built that dock and my dad Pete took over the family business when he came back from the war in 1945,” he recalle

L-L blues fest highlights holiday

Though the unofficial end to summer this holiday weekend may give some people the blues, an inaugural music festival in Lake Leelanau is designed to keep the good times rolling.

In fact, the focus of the festival will be the blues. As in music.

The

Leelanau Township to buy 5-acre parcel

The Leelanau Township Board is buying a five-acre parcel just north of the township fire station on Mill Street that will include a storage building for the township’s maintenance equipment and supplies.

At a special meeting Thursday, the board reviewe

'Not cool'

Twelve-year-old Madison Easterday of Ann Arbor needed just three words to sum up her feelings about the trash that washed up on the beach in front of her family’s summer home in Leland Township Aug. 14-15
“It’s not cool,” she said.

'Too big to fail' line is overlooking reality

Are you as fearful of the future as I am?
I have become a downright sissy when I start looking at our country’s financial future. Individually, I’m mired in my own credit trap, but for the most part I keep up with the payments. When I read about what is

Empire receives $20,000 grant for wireless Internet

The first fruits of The Grand Vision process have been harvested in the Empire, where Village Council members accepted a $20,000 Kellogg Foundation grant to make wireless Internet service available in parts of the village.

At its meeting Tuesday night,

Council addresses handicap parking issue

What could have been a difficult situation for the Village of Empire about a lack of handicap-accessible parking at the township hall is now going before the Empire Township board.

At its meeting Tuesday, the council reviewed a letter from the Michigan

Bernero, Snyder bandwagons rev up

Democratic and Republican officials in Leelanau are lining up in support behind their parties’ candidates for governor, even though neither is well known in the county.

Ann Arbor businessman Rick Snyder won the Republican Party nomination by taking 36

Paving part of dirt road for use as trail OK'd

The county Road Commission will allow a portion of a dirt and gravel road in Glen Arbor Township for inclusion in the Sleeping Bear Dunes Heritage Trail.

At its meeting Tuesday afternoon, the commission unanimously approved a request from the Leelanau

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