5 YEARS AGO August 1, 2019
A debate over how and whether to regulate short term rentals (STRs) in Elmwood Township appears to be heating up quickly. A deeply divided standing-room-only crowd of Elmwood Township residents attended a special township board meeting last week when the board decided to adopt a resolution placing a moratorium on the enforcement of its current zoning ordinance with regard to non-owner- occupied short term rentals. *** The Glen Lake Board of Education appears to be righting its ship. Board members will meet in special session Monday night to finalize a contract with recently-appointed superintendent Jon Hoover and act on a recommendation to hire Suttons Bay resident Stephanie Long as secondary principal. The move comes after a search committee, comprised of Hoover, four teachers and board member/ former counselor Ginna Woessner interviewed Long Monday for the position for which 28 candidates applied by Friday’s deadline. She was the only candidate interviewed.
10 YEARS AGO July 31, 2014
People aren’t boating or buying ice cream. Who can blame them, considering that temperatures for July have averaged 6.5 degrees colder than normal? And the outlook for the rest of the summer looks about the same. “If you were in the wetsuit rental business, you might have done pretty well this year,” said Konrad Molter, owner of Leelanau Watersports. *** A 38-year-old Cedar man has been arraigned in connection with a raid of the first known methamphetamine manufacturing site in Leelanau County. The arrest has been lamented as representing a “loss of innocence” by one neighbor, and has spurred efforts by the county Sheriff’s office to stop the spread of drugs into the county. Robert A. Sonderman, of 4955 S. French Road in Centerville Township, was charged with maintaining a drug house where controlled substance are kept or sold.
25 YEARS AGO Aug. 5, 1999
Lake Michigan beaches are experiencing large amounts of algae washing to shore. Biologists have yet to pinpoint a cause. Warmer water temperatures and zebra mussels may be to blame. *** Two tribal fishing boats moored at Leland Harbor since early July are causing discontent among recreational boaters and charter fishing captains. The fishing tugs Raven’s Nest and Francis Clark are operated by tribal fishermen Jimmy Raphael and Larry Peshawbe. The harbor is losing $100 a day in rental usurped by the two boats.
50 YEARS AGO August 1, 1974
Sheriff Fred Buehrer reports that through an investigation conducted by Officers of the Leelanau County Sheriff Department, six subjects have been arrested on charges which include Possession of Marijuana, Sale of Marijuana, Possession of Stolen Property and Breaking and Entering. To date, in excess of $,1000 worth of stolen property and $500 to $800 worth of Marijuana has been recovered. *** The 1974 annual meeting of the Citizens Council of the Sleeping Bear Dunes Area will be held at 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2 at Glen Arbor Community Hall. Louis A. Smith, attorney of Traverse City, will be the guest speaker. He has announced that he will discuss a new set of facts to be explored which could be of vital interest to those in the area who are threatened with condemnation of property by the National Park Service.
75 YEARS AGO July 29, 1948
Heroic effort by ten men under the direction of Assistant Fire Chief John Van Raalte, of Leland, Tuesday afternoon saved Miss Janet Rea of Fort Wayne, Ind., from death in a spectacular accident on the Blackledge bluff, south of Leland. Miss Rea was backing her car toward the edge of the bluff, in an attempt to turn at the home of Commodore and Mrs. J. Elder Blackledge when the wheels suddenly slid off the bluff. The drop to the beach is very sheer and it is 60 feet to the water. *** Suttons Bay village tax assessments, recently completed, show a rise of about $100,000 for the year. Most of the increase, over last year’s $400,000, was on real estate, according to President Gerald Selby. The tax rate of 10 mills has not been changed. The village council, meeting Monday night, approved appointment of Ralph Fuller as village assessor, and Conrad Gronseth and Martin Martinson to the board of revue.
100 YEARS AGO July 31, 1924
I wish to announce that I will be a candidate at the Primary Election for the nomination on the Republican ticket for the Office of Sheriff. Your support and vote will be appreciated George Heimforth. *** One of the most interesting things at the state fair, Detroit, August 29 to September 7, will be a fireworks picture, showing the “Founding of Detroit.’’ The scenes of old Fort Ponchartraln will leap into being in lines of fire high above the big state fair grounds.
