A few weeks ago Dan Lidster, who lives in Eastport and serves on the EMS ambulance crew, stood up at a Township meeting and got something off his chest. He’d been over to Lakeview Cemetery, and he thought the Veterans Memorial there was a disgrace. It was so small no one knew it was there. […]
The Torch Lake Township Economic Development Partnership (otherwise known as the Business Bunch) has published a new and improved version of our Visitors Guide. There are lots of business listings and a nice crop of Attractions, too. There is a nice big map! I don’t see how you can go wrong. The Guide is at […]
Katherine sent a lovely photo and wrote: This is a very large tree with these beautiful flowers on it and I don’t know the name of it. I thought maybe you would. There are several around the Eastport area and I think they are just wonderful . . . As it happens, I do know […]
I got home after a long day in what has already been a long week–and here it is only Wednesday night!–and Katherine had kindly painted the fence. She writes: Love people’s inventiveness (is that even a word?) I was turning around to go to a garage sale I missed when I saw this sign on […]
The 5th annual ArtRapids! fair will fill Memorial Park in Elk Rapids with a feast for your eyes and ears this Saturday. The free juried show features 65 artists, creative activities for children, live music all day, and a demonstration of watercolor techniques by juror Chuck Forman. I don’t see how you can go wrong. […]
Here it is the Summer Solstice and instead of a bright and breezy day on the Bay we have an overcast morning without any promise at all. I am grumpy. I want a refund. However, I will settle for cheering up, and it has arrived in my mailbox right on schedule. Our Babs has been […]
June 26, 2010
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