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Thursday Oct 22 | WQAC-FM Alma

Notable Michigan Author To Share Her Writings

Author and poet Anne-Marie Oomen, recipient of the Michigan Notable Book Award for Pulling Down the Barn , is coming to Alma College to read from her works.

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Sat Oct 17, 2009

Traverse City Record-Eagle

Federal funds going to three area counties

Three northwestern Michigan counties will receive hundreds of thousands of dollars from the federal government for transportation-related projects.

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Tue Oct 06, 2009

Examiner.com

See fall colors on a weekend getaway to Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula

Whether driving through the woods of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Park or further north to the lighthouse in Leelanau State Park, spectacular scenery lies around every turn on Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula.

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Fri Oct 02, 2009

Detroit Free Press

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore to expand

EMPIRE - Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will receive $1 million to use for land acquisition.

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Wed Sep 30, 2009

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Park Rangers Offer Free Programs in October

Would you like to patrol the beach at night searching for shipwrecks? Discover fall fungi, colors, and animal adaptations? Hear tales of history, mystery, and murder in a lumbering ghost town? Then come enjoy the flurry of fall leaves, crisp air, and changing colors at free Park Ranger-led programs at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in ...

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Fri Sep 25, 2009

WWUP-TV Cadillac

Vandals On Window Shooting Spree In Benzie, Leelanau Counties

The Leelanau County Sheriff's Department is investigating several incidents of windows being shot out.

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Thu Sep 24, 2009

WTOM-TV Traverse City

Shooting Spree Investigation

Deputies are searching for the person responsible for a shooting spree, damaging more than a dozen windows in Leelanau County.

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Mon Sep 14, 2009

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

to Offer Sneak Peeks at PBS Documentary

The National Park Service and WCMU Public Broadcasting invites the public to two, free preview screenings of the Ken Burns documentary series, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea", which will premiere on PBS in late September.

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Sat Sep 12, 2009

Traverse City Record-Eagle

Ag Forum: Farmers are hopping happy

"Dad, what in the heck is that?" my son Wyatt asked as we passed the telephone pole scale trellis system along M-72 near Empire.

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Thu Sep 10, 2009

Traverse City Record-Eagle

Adapted in TC: Readers weigh in

In July of this year, my column on recreation and accessibility generated a great deal of mail.

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Sat Sep 05, 2009

WWUP-TV Cadillac

Eagle to be released in Leelanau County

A rehabilitated bald eagle is being released into the wild in Leelanau County. The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports that the release is scheduled for 5 p.m. Saturday near the corner of state highway 72 and county road 667, west of Glen's Landfill.

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Thu Sep 03, 2009

Traverse City Record-Eagle

Rehabilitated eagle to be released

A rehabilitated bald eagle will be released into the wild this weekend. The release is set for 5 p.m. Saturday near the corner of M-72 and County Road 667 in Leelanau County, west of Glen's Landfill.

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Mon Aug 03, 2009

NPR

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Henry Allingham was the world's oldest man when he died this month. He was 113. And crowds turned out for his funeral today in Brighton, England.

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Sat Aug 01, 2009

Detroit Free Press

Doop's new disc a fond family remembrance

'It's all true stories from the heart. Just tell the truth and make it rhyme,' says singer-songwriter Don Duprie.

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Thu Jul 30, 2009

The State

Allingham, world's oldest man, laid to rest

Politicians, military chiefs, relatives and hundreds of strangers bade farewell Thursday to Henry Allingham, the world's oldest man and one of Britain's last survivors of World War I. Allingham was the last founding member of the Royal Air Force and one of only a handful of World War I veterans left in the world when he passed away at 113 on July ...

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Tue Jul 21, 2009

Traverse City Record-Eagle

Work on M-22 bridge to continue until Oct.

It's not the destination but the journey, the old saying goes. But when it comes to the closed Glen Lake Narrows bridge along M-22 in western Leelanau County, folks in the Glen Lake and Glen Arbor area wish the journey was a little shorter.

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Mon Jul 06, 2009

Traverse City Record-Eagle

Park officials eye tunnel, boardwalk

A million-dollar view from the top of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore could cost taxpayers nearly that much under a proposal to construct a tunnel and boardwalk.

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Sat Jul 04, 2009

WNEM-TV Saginaw

Toxin Possibly Found At Sleeping Bear Dunes

Testing is underway to confirm a possible botulism outbreak at Sleeping Bear Dunes in Empire, Mich.

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Thu Jul 02, 2009

The Detroit News

Botulism suspected in deaths of birds at Sleeping Bear

Empire -- Dozens of dead seagulls are turning up along the Lake Michigan shoreline at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, and scientists suspect botulism.

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Fri Jun 26, 2009

Traverse City Record-Eagle

Radio-controlled aircraft swoop into Empire

Snoopy first crawled atop his doghouse in 1965, transformed into a WWI flying ace, and battled the Red Baron.

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