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Announcing! The first annual Whoville Holiday Decorating contest, sponsored by Shear Class Salon and Day Spa. Who in Elberta will come up with the greatest house and lawn decor to brighten up our midwinter? Submit your $10 entrance fee to Shear Class. The Overall Best Decor winner gets the whole
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The Elberta Solstice Festival is back for its 12th year, Saturday June 21! Join the teeming masses of music and food buffs descending on our magical Village amid the dune bluffs of Lake Michigan for live music, local food, beer, games, Michigan's best beach, and other attractions to
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Elberta Parks and Rec has made installation of a new Tot Park fence a priority for this summer. The current chain-link fence is in bad condition and doesn’t fully enclose the play area. The Commission has sought estimates for a sturdy, attractive new fence that will fully enclose the
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By Emily Votruba On Friday, April 11, Stormcloud Brewing Company and the Betsie Current newspaper present a spelling bee to raise money for a great cause: local education. If you are a mature, brewery-going person with an orthographic bent, find yourself a partner and register to spell competitively by sending
Culture Bluffs
By Mason Loney Each year, first-year high school students at Frankfort–Elberta High School and Benzie Central read Bruce Catton's Waiting for the Morning Train and create their own reminiscence of growing up in Benzie County. Mason Loney submitted this essay to the Bruce Catton Awards contest in
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By Marilyn Maslo CHRISTMAS, FRANKFORT—For the first time I have now seen with my very own eyes what some have described to me in the past. Sunday and Monday I walked the beachfront of Frankfort heading north. Much further away from the breakwall I found the beach littered with
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The Village Parks and Recreation Commission will for the third year in a row sell fabulous Christmas trees from Needlefast Everygreens as a fundraiser for P&R projects! This year the sale will be held in the Farmers' Market Park Pavilion, with festive lights, excellent parking, possibly cocoa,
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A new "Little Free Library" has opened for business in Elberta. It's located on the front porch of the Conundrum Café at 603 Frankfort Avenue. Books are available 24-7. If your inner book worm is turning and you feel the need (the need to read) "
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The final draft of the Village of Elberta Parks and Recreation Plan for 2009–14 is now up on the Village website. As soon as the official notice is published in the Record-Patriot this Wednesday, the official five-week public comment period begins. This is a very important document for the
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Good news from Eileen Stapleton, Matt Stapleton's mother, via Janet Buck: Issy seems to be "about 95% OK" and is continuing to make progress toward a full recovery. She was unresponsive for three days and today "came out of it." The possible brain damage
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Culture Bluffs
Lakeside Shakespeare's last performance of the season, The Comedy of Errors, takes place tonight on Tank Hill at 7 pm. On July 5, Emily Votruba interviewed Janet La Rue Buck, Elizabeth Laidlaw, Amy Daniels Moehle, and Peter Dully, on the porch of the La Rue House Bed &