5 YEARS AGO August 29, 2019
Enrollment has a totally different significance for local educators in a Post- Proposal A world. And a recent trend with schools graduating more seniors than they welcome in kindergarten has some school district leaders concerned. An estimated 1,678 students are expected by leaders in the county’s four K-12 districts, down about 2% from this time last year and 6.9 percent lower than 2016.
*** Carl Noonan wasn’t sure what he would see working at Grumpy’s Market on Sunday. Sunday was the inaugural Ironman 70.3 Traverse City Triathlon. Two of the three events, the swim and running race, were held in Traverse City. But, the 56-mile bicycle course ran through Traverse City, Grand Traverse, Benzie and Leelanau counties. It used both Cedar Run Road and M-72, the major east-west routes used by Leelanau County citizens to get into and out of Traverse City and parts south.
10 YEARS AGO August 28, 2014
A multi-million dollar eco village, designed as a multigenerational community of approximately 150 residents, is being proposed for development in Northport in a portion of the old Leelanau Memorial Hospital. Maple City’s Gary Woodcock, a spokesman for the nonprofit Eco Villages North, LLC, talked about his group’s effort to develop a sustainable cooperative housing community last week at the Northport Village Planning Commission meeting.
*** State-licensed and tribal commercial fishermen plying the waters off the Leelanau peninsula have definitely had better years than this one. Whitefish is the most highly sought-after and best-selling species for commercial fishermen because it is prized by restaurants, fish markets and chefs for its tender meat and mild flavor. However, the harvest of whitefish this year appears to be down about 20-percent from last year.
Summer was good for businesses that rely on the tourist trade, although sales fell short of setting a record, business leaders say. Lodgings had an outstanding summer; retailers haven’t had time to tally up their sales.
*** Hansen Foods in Suttons Bay will reopen after being closed since June 26 by a suspicious, early-morning fire. The case remains unsolved.
*** A record number of students — more than 3,000 county-wide — have returned or will return to classrooms Tuesday after a long holiday weekend. The bulk of the county’s public school students are already three or four days into the school year.
50 YEARS AGO August 29, 1974
Glen Lake voters narrowly defeated the third request for approval of renewal of 13.5 mills for school operational purposes in voting in four precincts Monday, by a vote of 619 to 392, or a margin of 27 votes. The 27 vote margin was considerably less than the 341 vote margin in the last balloting of the same proposal for 13.5 mill renewal.
*** Thirteen-year-old Mary Denny of Menominee-Oneida Reservation, Kenosba, Wisconsin was crowned Leelanau County Indian Princess at the fourth annual Pow Wow held Saturday and Sunday at Peshawbestown, attended by an estimated 1,500 persons. The new princess was crowned by last year’s Princess Faith Anderson of Northport, who was also Pow Wow Princess this July in Ludington, Michigan.
75 YEARS AGO August 26, 1948
Rumors spread up and down the Leelanau coast Tuesday when the Coast Guard Cutter “Yamicraw” which is repairing the South Manitou Island telephone cable, sent a radio message asking that an agent from the FBI come to the ship at Once. The cutter Is anchored off Sleeping Bear point. Frankfort Coast Guard station “had no authority” to discuss the mystery.
*** Five boys between the ages of 14 and 16. Sons of prominent Northport Point summer residents. Wednesday afternoon confessed that they and a sixth boy are guilty of the vandalism that practically destroyed the interior of the Ustick cottage on Gull Island in Northport Bay. The sixth boy has returned to his home in Ohio.
100 YEARS AGO August 28, 1924
Miss Helen Thomson daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Thomson and Mr. Geo. LaFever of Los Angeles California were united in marriage at the parsonage of the Rev. James Hailwood Congregational Church, at Grand Rapids Thursday afternoon.
*** The ball game between North Manitou Island and Leland scored 9 to 10 in favor of the home team.
