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By Tim Skubick

‘Too many cooks …ruin the sauce’

Without a doubt the most important duty state lawmakers have is to ride herd on the state budget with oodles of your money in play...$83 billion oodles in fact. With 148 legislators in the house and senate, not everyone has a direct hands-on assignment under the heading, “too many cooks could ruin the sauce.” The heavy lifting, instead, goes to the 19 senators and 29 house members who reside on the appropriations committees. 07/24/2024 03:46 PM

Leelanau night photographer Ethan Hohnke takes a self portrait under a strong aurora on the shores of Lake Michigan. Courtesy photo

Leelanau night photographer Ethan Hohnke

Leelanau night photographer Ethan Hohnke takes a self portrait under a strong aurora on the shores of Lake Michigan. 07/24/2024 03:46 PM

Enterprise wins 26 national awards

Enterprise wins 26 national awards

The Leelanau Enterprise has earned 26 awards in the National Newspaper Association’s Editorial and Advertising Contest. The contest is open to all newspapers in the country. 07/17/2024 05:06 PM

HARTESVELT

Hartesvelt named finance director

Leelanau County’s interim administrator, Richard Lewis, said Tuesday that Cathy Hartesvelt has been hired as permanent finance director, after she served as interim finance director for almost nine months. She has been department head since the last permanent director, Sean Cowan, left the county in October 2023. 07/17/2024 05:06 PM

Leif Sporck of Sporck Tileart was very busy yesterday at the Glen Lake Womens Club Art Fair. Enterprise photo by Brian Freiberger

Leif Sporck of Sporck Tileart was very busy yesterday at the Glen Lake Womens Club Art Fair. 07/17/2024 05:06 PM

The two biggest lake associations in the county are taking aim at eradicating purple loosestrife, including this plant found growing south of the Lake Leelanau Narrows. Enterprise photo by Alan Campbell

Beetles battle invasive plants

Showy purple loosestrife is bearing its color, which makes this the perfect time for the two largest lake associations in the county to attack the pest. The Lake Leelanau Lake Association is pinning part of its control approach to a beetle that’s a picky eater while the Glen Lake Association is resorting to hand-to-hand combat. 07/17/2024 05:06 PM

WESSELL

Board defends Wessell

Jamie Kramer resigned as Leelanau County’s District No. 1 commissioner on July 9. 07/17/2024 05:06 PM

Dowler Services Set

Dowler Services Set

Thomas F. Dowler and Susan G. Dowler, of St. Petersburg, Florida, formerly of Leelanau County, passed away on January 23, 2024. The visitation will be held from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, July 23 at the Martinson Funeral Home in Suttons Bay. 07/17/2024 05:06 PM

William S. Bolinger

William S. Bolinger

Died July 15, 2024 LELAND – William S. Bolinger, 86, of Leland, passed away Monday, July 15, 2024 at the Northport Highlands with his family at his side. 07/17/2024 05:06 PM

Beverly Ann Kober

Beverly Ann Kober

Beverly Ann Kober, age 83, of Lake Leelanau passed away peacefully on July 6, 2024. Beverly was born on January 27, 1941, in Worcester, MA to Majorie and Eugene Wood. 07/17/2024 05:06 PM

John W. Travis

NORTHPORT- John W. Travis, 94, passed away peacefully at home on July 10, 2024, just 11 days shy of his 95th birthday. 07/17/2024 05:06 PM

Robert Jr. Whitall

Robert Jr. Whitall

Robert Jr. Whitall, April 14, 1948 - April 25, 2024, acclaimed blues music magazine publisher, photographer, artist and historian Robert Wood Whitall, Jr. of Glen Arbor, MI passed away April 25, 2024 at the age of 76. Better known as Robert Jr. or Junior, he was born on April 14, 1948, in Ambler, Pennsylvania. A direct descendent of the founders of Whitall Tatum, one of the first glass factories in the United States, Robert’s family relocated to Michigan during his high school years. During the Vietnam War he served in the Army then studied at Eastern Michigan University upon his discharge. A videographer in Detroit during the early rock and roll and punk rock era, Whitall established Detroit Blues Magazine with former Creem Magazine founder Charles Auringer in 1995. At the urging of Buddy Guy, the scope was changed from regional to international and rebranded as Big City Rhythm & Blues Magazine. The magazine has won many awards including the coveted Keeping the Blues Alive award from The Blues Foundation in 1998 and has been actively ‘keeping the blues alive’ to this day. In 2017 Junior was the recipient of a kidney donated by his wife affectionately known as Sugar, whom he married at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park on 9/11/1999. A lover of all things New Orleans, Whitall has been attending the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival for the past 39 years that began when he was a driver for the late renowned activist John Sinclair, manager of the MC5. He and Sugar also sailed on over 40 Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruises. A champion of unknown and underappreciated musicians, he was friend, confidante, promoter and adviser to some of the greatest musicians and personalities who crossed his path within his lifetime, a list too numerous to mention. To this end, Junior and Sugar started a non-profit, Gimme Five, that assisted musicians and music-related individuals during times of need. He was also famous for his ‘intoxicatingly delicious’ cookies – Cooper Snaps – that were craved by his celebrity musical family. In spite of declining health over the past decade and a half, Robert Jr. began work as an artist in 2010 during extended hospital stays in Detroit, influenced by Frida Kahlo. His first art exhibit was at the New Orleans Museum of Art during the 2011 Jazz & Heritage Festival. Since that honor, his unique, musician-inspired artwork has been exhibited at various museums and venues around the country. 07/17/2024 05:06 PM

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