5 YEARS AGO January 31, 2019
Hansen Foods in Suttons Bay has a new owner. Connie Frost, 57, of Maple City said her purchase of the grocery store officially went through last Tuesday. Frost has worked at Hansen Foods since 2002, when she joined original owner Dave Hansen to handle the back room of the grocery store. The store was eventually sold to grocery manager Gus O’Brien, who told Frost in 2011 about his future plan to retire. *** County students were on the sixth day of a 6-day weekend yesterday as the thermometer dropped and wind chills of 20 to 25 below zero were expected. Most schools had a scheduled day off Friday at the end of the semester exam week. However, come Monday, as the school week began a winter storm swept through the area, dumping as much as 7 inches in Maple City with lesser amounts recorded in Bingham Township and Northport.
10 YEARS AGO January 30, 2014
If Michigan snow had a vortex, its axis would point at Leelanau County where 188.1 inches had fallen through early evening Tuesday. Then overnight Wednesday, another few inches fell. It’s been tough for weather watcher Harold Feigel of Maple City to keep up. He man’s a weather station in his back yard for the National Weather Service. *** Empire resident Carol Peterson performed a rescue on Tuesday, taking a horned grebe to the Crystal River and putting him into the open water. “We kind of tossed him in and he fluffed his wings and off he went,” Peterson said. Peterson’s friend, Bill Bolton, found the waterfowl waddling around in his yard. After getting the stranded grebe into a bucket in his garage, Bolton called Peterson and her husband for help.
25 YEARS AGO February 4, 1999
Grand Traverse Bay is not expected to freeze this winter. The bay hasn’t frozen over for the past three years, an unusual streak considering ice has covered the waters 80% of winters since 1851. *** Local zoning — not federal jurisdiction — applies to the former railroad corridor between Hatches Crossing and Suttons Bay. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati affirmed a 1996 decision not to “railbank” the former railroad corridor. Leelanau County townships may control the use of property through zoning laws and districts.
50 YEARS AGO January 31, 1974
Suttons Bay Chamber of Commerce board of directors has announced that with recent contribution of $2,000 by Empire Bank to the Suttons Bay Coal Dock Acquisition fund, the project of purchasing the coal dock to be used as a village park is very near compilation. The initial goal undertaken by a committee of the Suttons Bay Chamber to raise $150,000. *** Northern Michigan counties, including Leelanau should be on the alert as to the possibility of the use of hard drugs moving into this area, as it has already done in downstate areas. Some 22 members of the Michigan Association of Counties held their annual meeting Thursday at Sugar Loaf were so informed by Donald Parker, of the Michigan Office of Substance Abuse Services.
75 YEARS AGO January 29, 1948
Appearance of sea lamphrey in the northern waters of Lake Michigan is believed to be the main cause for the disappearance of trout in Lake Michigan waters north of Frankfort. Leland fishermen have suffered for the past year as a result of the scarcity of fish in their fishing grounds between the mainland and the Manitous. *** Announcement is made by John Battler of Cedar, manager of the Leelanau County Telephone Company, that the Federal Communications Commission liaison authorized the Michigan Bell Telephone company to sells its Maple City exchange properties to the Leelanau County Telephone Company. Kenneth A. Watson, manager of the local Michigan Bell telephone office, at Traverse City, stated that previous authority had been granted by the Michigan Public Service Commission.
100 YEARS AGO January 31, 1924
The ice harvest began last Tuesday, the ice is of very fine quality. *** Born--to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Nelsen of Northport on Jan. 20th, a fine baby girl. She has been named Sigualda Eloise. Congratulations. *** Rev. T.C. Haessler returned home last evening from Reed City. Where he attended conference.
