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Foghorn: Sell Your Stuff at E²: Eclectic Elberta
E²: Eclectic Elberta! For the third year, Conundrum Café and Park and Rec are running a free market day on Labor Day Sunday (Sept. 4). Do you have something, anything, you want to sell? (Food, crafts, vintage items, et cetera...) Booths are free. Call 231-352-8150 to reserve a spot. Or
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Community Spirit Backpack Project Needs Items, Volunteers This Sunday
As the school year looms each year at the end of summer, Melanie Herren and a team of volunteers including Suz McLaughlin and Jinx Jenks load up vehicles with donated items and then stuff backpacks with supplies to deliver to Frankfort High, Benzie Central, and the alternative high school. Any
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World Premiere of Chaotic Harmony
Elberta’s own choreographer, Gretchen Eichberger, premieres her dance tribute to Gwen Frostic, Chaotic Harmony, next Saturday and Sunday at the CSA Meeting House. A collaboration with the writer Anne-Marie Oomen and the musical trio Breathe Owl Breathe, as well as four dancers and three speakers, the piece integrates spoken
Crime
M-168: Life on the Straightaway
In her hometown of Hartland, MI, Michele Cannaert got used to the sound of squealing tires. “It was the same as here,” she said, referring to the conjunction of M-22 and M-168. “Three corners. You’d hear the squeal and then wait to hear the crash.” At about 2 a.
Infrastructure and Planning
(Re)Paving Paradise: Council Accepts Roadwork Bid
The Village Council held a special meeting on Friday, August 5, to review a bid put in by Ron Brown & Sons for various street repair projects around the Village. The bid came in at $28,092 for fill and resurfacing work on Lincoln Avenue from Bigley all the way
On and off the Apron
Council Meeting Report: July 21, 2011
This report is an amended version of the Issue 6 print version. Amendments are shown in brackets. MATT STAPLETON again proposed beginning the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance. “I’d just love to see us say the Pledge, since it’s a public meeting, a government meeting.” The matter
Foghorn
Foghorn: Beach Driving RAP Line
The Village Office has asked the Alert to announce that the following DNR RAP line is in place to receive reports of off-road and beach driving on Elberta Beach property and elsewhere along the shore and dunes. The fine for driving off the lot and gravel road that ends at
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Breathe Owl Breathe Swoop in to the Amphitheater Sunday
Breathe Owl Breathe are back again this Sunday, July 24, at the Elberta Amphitheater, with a sliding-scale show tuned to all ages. Last year they played through a rather dramatic rainstorm, and this year's show may be a reprise. Bring your slickers and take a moment to breathe
Culture Bluffs
Good Things Come out of Art's Garage
Art Melendez, a cartoonist, illustrator, graphic designer, educator, and relatively recent full-time Elbertian, has signed on to a lot of local activities: Parks and Rec, the Elberta Arts Council, the Solstice Committee, and the Elberta Alert editorial team. But his most recent standout project has been renovating the Elberta sign,
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Agenda: July Council Meeting
At Thursday's council meeting this week, we'll have a special guest, Vickie Smith, of Wildlife and Wetland Solutions, who specializes in the eradication of invasive phragmites, which we have a lot of in the bay and inlet. The Friends of Betsie Bay and other concerned citizens