Northport News

In my last column, I wrote about a man I'd seen walking daily on the side of a country road.

Michelle Baldwin likes to know where her food comes from. Every Saturday morning Baldwin takes her young sons to a farmers market where she picks out her fresh produce, plus grapes or tomatoes for her boys to munch on the ride home.

It's not marijuana, but another weed that teens are experimenting with that could lead to dangerous consequences.

Last night's high winds knocked power out for more than 100,000 people in Michigan -- thousands right here in Northern Michigan.

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.

Utility crews removed and repaired dangling power lines, while firefighters and chainsaw-wielding homeowners cleared roads and lawns of trees and limbs scattered by a gusty, welcome-to-fall storm that swept through the region.

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

Sandra Bristol bounced back-and-forth in the lush grass at Suttons Bay Marina Park, keeping time with live slide guitar music.

A bomb squad robot was used to find out if a suspicious pipe was explosive. The Leelanau Township Fire Chief found the pipe in the driveway of his home in Northport.

Hide Video The Leelanau County Sheriff's Department is investigating a suspicious object found in a driveway of a Northport home.

The Leelanau County Sheriff's Department is searching for the person who damaged more than 30 mailboxes near Northport.

It started out with just two complaints about damaged mailboxes Tuesday night in a Leelanau Township neighborhood near Northport.

NORTHPORT, Mich. -- It was early afternoon of Day 2 at the Grand Traverse Lighthouse Museum when, between untangling a stubborn mess of Christmas lights and spreading enormous piles of mulch heavy with moisture from incessant rain, it finally sank in: This was no ordinary vacation.

A visit to Leelanau Peninsula's wineries is one you won't soon forget. You'll traverse roads that cross hilltops covered with vines and fruit trees, the azure waters of Grand Traverse Bay, Lake Leelanau and Lake Michigan undulating in the near and far distance.

Nine were left fatherless when the Bridgebuilder X vanished 50 years ago. In mid December 1959, five children between the ages of 6 and 16 of Sterling "Fuzz" Nickerson Jr.

The 55-foot Welcome , a replica of an original built in 1774, is having work done on its electrical systems, engines and hull following a Coast Guard inspection.

A Leelanau County time capsule offered its probers a glimpse of local history. Historical preservation graduate students from Eastern Michigan University spent last week at DeYoung Natural Area on Cherry Bend Road just north of Traverse City.

It was early afternoon of Day 2 at the Grand Traverse Lighthouse Museum when, between untangling a stubborn mess of Christmas lights and spreading enormous piles of mulch heavy with moisture from incessant rain, it finally sank in: This was no ordinary vacation.

Golfers are sought for a fundraiser this month on behalf of the Northport Promise scholarship fund.

Voters will go to the polls today for an annual school election. A number of area districts have items on the ballot.