5 YEARS AGO March 14, 2019
The owners of what could arguably be the most lavish home in northern Michigan have had their property tax appeal turned down by the Leland Township Board of Review. The Leland Board of Review voted unanimously Tuesday to turn down a petition from Celebration Life Trust of its 2019 tax assessment.
*** The Loon Ranger rides again! In fact, he’ll probably begin riding on a pontoon boat as soon as the ice thaws on Cedar Lake in Elmwood Township this spring. Thoughtless water skiers using a slalom course after hours and too close to the northwestern shore of Cedar Lake need to know that the Loon Ranger will have his eyes on them.
10 YEARS AGO March 13, 2014
A simmering dispute between two Leelanau County department heads came to a boil Tuesday morning with Leelanau County Treasurer John A. Gallagher III informing the Leelanau County Board of Commissioners that he is taking over a job that has been done in the county’s Equalization Department since 2006.
*** Northport Village officials sought legal advice on whether trustee Chris Holton could also head the Department of Public Works more than a month before the job was posted. Village attorney Will Davison wrote in an email that it was OK on Jan. 9. The email was sent to Barb VonVoigtlander, the village council president, and was among attorney correspondences in council members’ packets last week.
25 YEARS AGO March 18, 1999
Spring is springing in Leelanau — good news for winter- weary residents as the season’s
snowfall total sticks at 99 inches.
*** Suttons Bay grocer Dave Hansen is hoping to build a new, larger store behind the current location, but the Village Council voted unanimously to deny his request for an easement or lease of village property that would allow access to a proposed new grocery store site from M-22.
*** Twin girls Anna and Ellie Jones-Morgan of Cedar continue to gain strength at Spectrum Hospital in Grand Rapids. The twins were born 16 weeks early on Feb. 10. Three communities held fundraisers to help the family with expenses.
50 YEARS AGO March 14, 1974
A brand new $15,000 Bookmobile appeared on Saturday at ten o’clock, parked along side of NJ's food market in the village of Lake Leelanau. It is a gift from the federal government to citizens of Benzie. Leelanau and Grand Traverse Counties, members of the Grand Traverse Library Federation. The new Bookmobile replaces a tottering old one on loan from the State and Mrs. Frederick Crandall is the librarian full time when en route or selecting and cataloguing Bookmobile book collections at Traverse City.
*** Daily parking fees of 75 cents per car and 75 cents per trailer during the 1974 boating season have been set for Leland Harbor users by action of the Michigan Natural Resources Commission. Announcement of the fees was made at a meeting of the NRC held March 7-8 in Lansing. This will be the first time fees have been set for either cars or trailers at the Harbor.
75 YEARS AGO March 11, 1948
The cherry country will celebrate with a Cherry Festival at Traverse City on July 8 and 9, the Traverse City Chamber of Commerce announced this week. There “will be a cherry ‘queen, parades, band concerts, free acts, a carnival and distinguished guests . . . and crowds and more crowds.'
The festival, begun in 1926, was abandoned through war years and last summer Traverse City celebrated its centennial instead.
*** Red Cross workers turned in $350 in their first week and fund solicitors are covering the county today, General Chairman Horace Wheeler of the Red Cross Roll Call announces. With only $1,000 to go and three weeks to complete the solicitation there is little doubt that the county will run well over its quota, as it always has done in recent years.
100 YEARS AGO March 13, 1924
Township treasurer J.M. Spangle of Elmwood, was in town this week settling with the County treasurer, we acknowledge a very pleasant call.
*** A Republican Caucus in the Township of Leland, County of Leelanau and State of Michigan, will be held at the Court House, in the village of Leland, Michigan. On Monday, March 17th, 1924 at 2 p.m. for the purpose of electing candidates for the respective township officers for the ensuing year, and transacting such other business as may lawfully come before said meeting.
