5 YEARS AGO August 15, 2019
The owners of what could arguably be the most lavish home in northern Michigan are asking the state Tax Tribunal reduce their property tax assessment. The Celebration Life Trust is appealing the Leland Township Board of Review’s decision to deny a request to reduce the assessment on the property which, according to township records, has a true cash value of just over $24 million.
*** Jim Munoz remembers the first time he saw the man who would become his best friend — Larry Glass. Glass was down on a dock at Fishtown, trying to catch a fish, Munoz said he was across the river from Glass and knew that a Big Ten coach had moved to Leland. “I walked over and introduced myself and that was the beginning of a 50-plus year friendship,” he said. Glass, 84, died Monday at Medilodge in Suttons Bay.
10 YEARS AGO August 14, 2014
More people visited Leelanau County’s number one tourist attraction last month than any July on record. According to National Park Service statistics, 476,296 people visited Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore last month, a new record. That figure is up 4.94 percent from the July visitation figure in 2013. Perhaps more significantly, last month’s figures are up 3.5 percent from July 2012 – the year the National Lakeshore set a new all-time record of 1,531,560 visitors for the calendar year.
*** Suttons Bay Public Schools will return checks totaling nearly $29,000 to the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians after learning from their attorneys that the tribal “2-percent” payments were unlawful. The money was intended to help pay for programs administered by the local non-profit organization Leelanau Christian Neighbors (LCN). More than $10,000 was designated for the ministry’s “emergency aid program” for needy families while nearly $19,000 was allocated to LCN’s food pantry program.
25 YEARS AGO August 19, 1999
After several accidents, officials look to improve the intersection of M-72, Bugai and Gray roads. State, county and local transportation and law enforcement officials were to meet to discuss improvements for the intersection. Bugai Road was extended between Lincoln Rd. and Co. Road 641, opening in late 1996.
*** The Morgan twins, born 16 weeks premature on Feb. 10, have been released from a Grand Rapids hospital and are at home with their parents in Cedar since May. The twins are getting stronger although, they will likely have sight problems.
*** Three Hispanic males in their 20s are being sought in connection with a drive-by shooting early Sunday morning in Suttons Bay Township. No one was injured in the incident, reported at 2:30 a.m. at a home on Jacobson Road, north of Suttons Bay.
50 YEARS AGO August 15, 1974
Preliminary plans for the proposed $197,750 Leland Township Library and Community Center, Township Offices and possible Leelanau Historical Society complex to be located on the former Leland Marine property have been announced by the Leland Township Board library committee, headed by Joseph Lutz, chairman. The plans for the complex were first announced in August 1973 with a donation of $40,000 by a summer resident.
*** Dedication of the Myles Kimmerly-Leelanau County Recreation Area and the annual picnic of the Cedar-Maple City Lions Club will be held on August 25, 1974. The Leelanau County Commissioners and the Lions Club invite everyone interested in the recreation for children to attend this picnic.
75 YEARS AGO August 12, 1948
OTT ANSWERS We’ll meet the Leelanau County All-Stars on Fairgrounds Field, Traverse City, Sunday, August 22, on the winner-take-all basis they want. My boys are willing and anxious to meet you. We will hold August 22 open until Saturday to give Leelanau time to make arrangements. Our other Sunday dates are filled, so any other date would have to be for a twilight game. Editor’s note: Here Traverse City Merchant Manager A1 Ott answers the challenge carried in this newspaper last week.
*** The ever rising cost of living made itself felt again last week as the price of milk to the consumer moved up one cent a quart. It it now 19 cents at the door and from 19 to 21 in stores. The rise brings milk prices up to the 1946 high after a one cent drop last year. The increase follows an upward swing in Traverse City. Dairymen explain the reason to be higher costs of materials and shipped in milk.
100 YEARS AGO August 14, 1924
Salvage Notice: Bids on lumber used on Pageant grounds will be received by the Pageant Committee up to and including Monday Aug. 18, 1924 6 p.m. Committee reserves the right to reject and one or all bids. Successful bidder has to take down and remove lumber at once.
*** For Sale: Two 12x16 tents, each with fly and extra poles, and matched hemlock floor, built in sections measuring 12x32 whe bolted together. Also 9x10 tent without floor. The whole outfit for $60. Cost new $125. One 12x14 tent, new never unwrapped, to sell separately for $20. Inquire Enterprise office.
