5 YEARS AGO September 26, 2019
Jon Ornée of Holland, Michigan, describes himself as an “aspiring adventurer.” He has earned that moniker over the last five days. Friday, Ornée swam 7.4 miles between Pyramid Point and the southern tip of North Manitou Island in two hours and 50 minutes. Then Monday, Ornée and four friends — Ben Blake, Grand Rapids, Nick DeHaan. Grand Rapids, Jesse Gould, Grand Blanc, and Sean Murphy, Hudsonville — set the team time trial record for bicycle riding across Michigan with an average speed of 24.7 mph. *** A local resident hit the literal jackpot Saturday night. The lucky Michigan Lottery player won $80 million after purchasing a Powerball ticket from Barrels & Barrels in Suttons Bay, according to a press release from the Michigan Lottery. The ticket matched winning numbers 1, 9, 22, 36, 68 and the Powerball 22, marking just the fourth time a Michigan player has won the Powerball jackpot since being offered by the state in 2010, according to the release.
10 YEARS AGO September 25, 2014
This year’s grape harvest will be late and it won’t be long, according to local vintners. The effects of a hard winter that lasted from November through April in northwest Michigan and much of the Midwest are being felt now in county vineyards. Many vines suffered damage. Some died. “We have about half of what we would pick normally,” said Robert Brengman, of Brengman Brothers at Crain Hill Vineyards in Elmwood Township. “In areas where the snow was really high, the primary buds had enough insulation. But with little snow cover, it’s sporadic.” *** Northport Village Council president Barb VonVoigtlander set a special meeting for yesterday to discuss an agreement for the village takeover of the new $1 million Northport Creek Golf Course. The short notice, posted in the village on Monday, caught many villagers off-guard, including Christine Verdon, a member of the Northport Planning Commission. Verdon decided to do something about it. She asked VonVoigtlander for 20 copies of the notice and she went about the village Tuesday posting the special meeting notice at local businesses.
25 YEARS AGO October 7, 1999
County commissioners will get a second look at a proposal to mandate septic tank inspections for approval last week by the Benzie-Leelanau District Board of Health. *** In addition to the 10,800 marijuana plants seized in a raid on a Bingham Township farm Sept. 17, processed and packaged marijuana valued at $50,000 was found. The county prosecutor believes that the defendant, who was indicted as part of the investigation, had someone working with him.
50 YEARS AGO September 26, 1974
John Porritt, Bingham Township Supervisor, and Rex Core of Bingham Township appeared before a special meeting of the Leelanau County Board of Commissioners Monday night at the courthouse in Leland to request that the board approve “a minimum lake levels for Lake Leelanau of some six feet one inch or six feet two inches.” Porritt and Core informed the board that the minimum currently set by order of the Leelanau County Court is six feet and maximum seven feet two inches. *** Glen Lake Community School District voters turned out in full force Monday to overwhelmingly reverse the outcome of its previous three millage elections, all of which were defeated, by voting to approve the school board’s latest request for 13.0 operational mills for one year. 75
YEARS AGO September 23, 1948
For the first time since before the war, women have been summoned on the jury panel for the September session of Circuit court in Leland. It has been seven or eight years, County Clerk Elmer Dalton recalls, since there has been a mixed jury. Twenty-one men and three women make up this term’s panel. A light schedule of cases, including four criminal, six in chancery and 10 issues of fact, will face Judge Charles L. Brown as he opens court. *** Leelanau gasoline dealers are not unhappy about the new order which this week required them to raise the price of gasoline one-half cent a gallon. The rise will be additional profit to them. Results of a cost survey revealed that dealers must have a minimum margin of 4.9 cents per gallon of gasoline pumped in order to comply with the Michigan fair trade law, aimed to knock out cut-throat competition.
100 YEARS AGO September 25, 1924
To School Officers I was in a schoolhouse the other day and wished to find a Bible quotation and to my astonishment there was not a copy in the building. No School should exist in Michigan without a copy of the Bible. Cordially yours, T. E. Johnson Department of Public Instructions *** Born: To Mr. and Mrs. A. Brooks Wilder on Tuesday last in Chicago, a seven lb. boy.
