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Growing Up Leelanau: LIFT features narrative portrait exhibit of Leelanau County teens
LIFT Teen Center (LIFT) is excited to announce an upcoming, one-night-only narrative portrait exhibit of local teens, titled "Growing up Leelanau." Through 12 life-size portraits and first-person narratives, local teens will share the people, places, and experiences that have…
Michigan Farmers Hall of Fame inducts four farm families
Four Michigan farm families were inducted into the Michigan Farmers Hall of Fame during the 2026 induction ceremony on Sept. 12. This year’s ceremony was held at the Presbyterian Church in Hastings. This year’s inductees are Dennis and Dawn Iott of Kalkaska County, Darrell and…
Schackman memoir captures musical life with Nina Simone
There is nothing like playing music with an accomplished and brilliant professional guitar player like Al Schackman, writes Sun editor Norm Wheeler. For the past 10 years I have been lucky enough to sit in with him, Chris Skellenger, and Patrick Niemisto every summer at Cherry…
Vikes seventh at Harbor Springs, beat Bobcats at Grayling Country Club
Grayling senior Sophie LaGattuta carded a 94 to finish sixth out of 67 golfers at the Harbor Springs Invitational Sept. 22 at Boyne Resorts. LaGattuta turned in pars on six of the 18 holes as she helped the Vikings to a seventh-place finish as a team with a 444. Elk Rapids won…
'Buck 1-1, we have a possible mayday': How the Blair Township fighter jet crashed in real time
Audio from the F-16 crash in Grawn reveals details about what may have brought down the plane and just how quickly the pilot was forced to eject. And for context, we hear from another fighter pilot who survived a crash by pulling the ejection handle.