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JULY 10, 2025 • Vol. 37, No. 14
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LEFT: Glen Arbor Wines, located on Lake Street, is a popular place to sample wine varieties. BELOW: Up North brand — M22 — has a big presence in Glen Arbor. Photos by Greg Tasker
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GLEN ARBOR — If you’re looking for a classic summer vacation in Michigan — the kind where water, woods and whatever are available at your will on any given day — look no further than Glen Arbor on the Leelanau Peninsula. While this town of about 700 year-round residents swells in the summer, Glen Arbor still manages to invite relaxation. No wonder. Glen Arbor is surrounded by the woods and hills of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and lies on the sandy shores of Lake Michigan — so there’s ample opportunity for beach time, hiking and biking, and kaying and stand up paddle boarding. And much, much more. Wander along M-22 through Glen Arbor and you’ll
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MACOMB TOWNSHIP — A public hearing for the township’s sidewalk maintenance program dragged the June 25 Macomb Township Board of Trustees meeting well into the evening. A total of 14 residents spoke during the second public hearing for the township’s sidewalk maintenance program, which for 2025 centers on sidewalks in the area north of Hall Road, east of Hayes Road, south of 22 Mile Road and west of Romeo Plank Road. Sidewalks in the area were examined and the township sent notices to property owners informing them about the potentially hazardous sidewalks and an estimated cost of replacing them, should the property owner not seek their own contractors or repair the sidewalks themselves. Property owners intending to handle maintenance themselves or with their own contractor are to contact the township by calling (586) 726-6695 or emailing sidewalks@macomb-mi.gov. Work is expected to begin after Monday, Aug. 25. “The way the ordinances have been written and have been written for a long time is that homeowners are responsible for the maintenance of their sidewalks,” Township Supervisor Frank Viviano said. “Until this program, the township had not enforced that. The responsibility of the sidewalk maintenance has always been on all of us as homeowners … Macomb Township didn’t create this out of thin air. Effectively, we mirrored it from Chesterfield (Township). Almost the exact same program exists in Shelby Township, Clinton Township, St. Clair Shores. I encountered this program as a business owner in St. Clair Shores 25 years ago.”