Omena News

An annual event is blooming in Leelanau County. Saturday marks the second annual Leelanau Cherry Blossom Tour, billed as an opportunity for participants to take in spectacular views during the spring bloom and meet the farmers who make it happen.

A 5-year plan for recreation in northern Leelanau County will be considered by the Northport Village Council next month.

In April, ita TMs National Poetry Month time, So, here is the second annual column in rhyme.

Volunteers are announcing plans to hold the Second Annual Leelanau Cherry Blossom Tour on Saturday, May 16, with tour buses complete with local guides dparting from and returning to Eagles Ridge Conference Center in Peshawbestown.

The Road Commission is now the first elected county government body in Leelanau County to adopt an electronic communications policy.

It's amazing watching spring struggling to appear. As of Monday morning, there were still a few ice fishermen on Suttons Bay, and Omena Bay was still completely covered with a veneer of ice.

It's the best time in six years to walk from Lee Point to Power Island. But Bob Johnson still wouldn't try it.

BEA KIMMERLY, shown in a photo taken last fall, recently donated a conservation easement to the Leelanau Conservancy that permanently protects her Omena home and property.

My purpose in writing this article is to announce that my 96-year-old neighbor, Bea Kimmerly, has engineered the permanent protection of her family's 35 acres in Omena through the donation of a conservation ...

The Grand Traverse Lighthouse Museum will team with the Northport-Omena Chamber of Commerce to host the inaugural Northport Lighthouse & Maritime Festival in June.

An ever increasing interest in energy alternatives brought more than 100 farmers and landowners to a series of wind energy workshops provided by the Michigan State University Extension of Leelanau County, the ...

The Leelanau County Board of Commissioners has a new leader, though she's no stranger to county government.