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The Norsemen used their superior height and athleticism in the fourth quarter to pull away in an 80-60 victory in the Class C regional championship game at Traverse City West. Suttons Bay will now play Rudyard at Lake Superior State University on Tuesday, March 23 for the quarterfinal match of the 2010 Class C State Tournament.

Mlive reports:

Mason County Central, the Cinderella story of this year's boys basketball tournament, was in position to pull off a major stunner on Wednesday night.

The Spartans, who had a 5-15 record entering the tournament, were down by just four points, 56-52, against No. 8 Suttons Bay.

But the Norsemen used their superior heighth and athleticism in the fourth quarter to pull away in an 80-60 victory in the Class C regional championship game at Traverse City West.

The Record Eagle said:

Suttons Bay closed the game on a 24-6 run, thanks to 12 points from Dwaun Anderson.

"That's pretty much my role," Anderson said. "It's what I have to do, even if I feel like I can't. I've always got to push myself for my best. Tonight, I didn't think we came out good enough, so I had to turn it on."

Anderson was also key in a second-quarter run that gave the Norsemen momentum going into the half. The Spartans built a 29-23 advantage with Anderson on the bench with two fouls, but he returned for the last three minutes. He immediately drove the baseline and threw down a one-handed dunk from underneath the basket.

Currently it is 44 degrees and cloudy at 11:06 AM at Leelanau Coffee Roasting in Glen Arbor. The barometer is at 29.77 inches and falling with a relative humidity of 78%.   Partly cloudy today, then clearing with highs in the upper 50s.

Photo: Nightscape by michiganartisan

Coming Events

Movie Series at Northport Community Arts Center ( April 11)

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Week's Weather

Looking back, comments, etc.

Click for the Leelanau News Archive from March 2009 and post your comments about the week (news, weather, whatever) on the Leelanau Almanac: Week of March 11 – 17.

Weather Resources

Weather Underground is just about as old as the internet (the first net weather service) and is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Sometimes the above banner will show personal weather system data from Leland, sometimes from Leelanau Coffee and sometimes it comes from a vineyard on Old Mission (it tells you which in the top left of the page it links to).

Bouy 45002 in Lake Michigan is located halfway between North Manitou Island and Washington Island in Lake Michigan. It provides wind and wave data. Also check out Michigan Sea Grant Coastwatch for water temps (the "early evening" images in their archive will give you a better idea of actual temps during peaks swimming hours ... in seasons where you might actually want to swim!).

Photo: Nightscape by michiganartisan

Post your comments about the week's news, observations of the weather or the natural world or events below! You'll also want to check out the Leelanau Calendar and the latest news and features from Leelanau, Traverse City and the surrounding area in our blog! Here's the March 2009 archive, and Leelanau Almanac: Week of March 4 – 10.

We featured some of Leelanau's young people this week. First, Alisha Glass was the Insight & Inspiration Speaker last week. We also reported on some high school basketball scores, and that Suttons Bay advances to the quarterfinals. We took a little break yesterday to wish you Beannachtam na Feile Padraig! And if you are recovered from yesterdays festivities and looking for something to do tonight, check out Sada Omoto-Talk About Art.

Week's Weather

March 16: Mostly sunny & 41 (55/26)
March 15: Partly sunny & 43 (53/30)
March 14: Mostly cloudy & 42 (49/42)
March 13: Rain & 46 (53/39)
March 12: Rain & 45 (48/42)
March 11: Rain & 47 (62/32)

Post your comments about the week's news, observations of the weather or the natural world or events below! You'll also want to check out the Leelanau Calendar and the latest news and features from Leelanau, Traverse City and the surrounding area in our blog! Here's the March 2009 archive, and Leelanau Almanac: Week of March 4 – 10.

Photo: Esch Rd Beach View by ETCphoto

Wherever you go and whatever you do,
May the luck of the Irish be there with you.

Beannachtam na Feile Padraig!
Happy St Patrick's Day from Leelanau Communications!

Photo credit: Shamrock & Lucky Horseshoe! St. Patricks Day Irish American Postcard 16 by UpNorth Memories - Donald (Don) Harrison

The fourth program in the Talk About Art series will feature retired art history professor, Sada Omoto who will speak at 7:30PM, Thursday, March 18 at the Glen Arbor Art Association. His talk is titled, “Regionalism Revisited” focusing on art, artists, and the culture of Northwest Lower Michigan.

Born and raised near Seattle and educated in the Midwest (Oberlin, Michigan State, and Ohio State), Sada Omoto taught art history at Bradley University, Wayne State, and Michigan State. Since moving to Leland in 1997, he has concentrated on painting at the Old Art Building in Leland. His early background has made him sensitive to the diversity of art history traditions which has shaped his creativity as an artist in Northwest Lower Michigan.

Sada Omoto’s March 18th talk at the Glen Arbor Art Association will explore the question of how we identify and relate to the geography, the history, the countryside and the Big Lake, a constant reminder of this region. This uniqueness cries out to our artists to paint, sketch, document and preserve this wonderful Northwest Lower Michigan. In art history texts, “Regional Art” ordinarily is applied to the triumvirate of Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry, and appears to disregard those artists whose works seem to be outside the traditional art history category of “Regional Art.” What of the countless names of less recognized artists and their works in this part of Michigan?

The Talk About Art series gives the community an opportunity to meet some of our many accomplished local artists and gain an appreciation and understanding of art and how it is created. The talks are free and open to the public. The final two in the series are Pam Yee, Altered Books (April 29) and Edee Joppich, Color (May 6).

The Glen Arbor Art Association is located across from Cherry Republic behind Lake Street Studios in Glen Arbor. For more information call 231/334-6112 or e-mail info@glenarborart.org.

Suttons Bay beat St Francis to win the Boy's Basketball District Title on Friday. The Record Eagle reports:

Dwaun Anderson -- who wears 22 for Suttons Bay -- scored a lay-up in the closing seconds Friday as the Norsemen won their first district basketball since 2003 with a 53-51 victory Friday night in the Class C final in front of a packed house.

Suttons Bay will play Boyne City tonight at Traverse City West at 7:30.

Also, Leland took the district title beating  Northport 69 to 36 on Friday.  Leland will play Manistee Catholic Central tonight at Benzie Central High School

The Leland Educational Foundation presents Alisha Glass, tonight, Thursday, March 3, as she presents "Setting in Pursuit of a Dream" the journey of fulfilling her aspirations beginning as a Leelanau youth to her current position on the US Women's National Volleyball team. Enjoy as she shares how her leadership skills, commitment and innate attributes have led to the vigorous evolution of a youth athlete with nontraditional experience to obtaining a highly awarded collegiate career.

Tickets are $10 at the door or in advance from LPS Office, Pedaling Beans Coffeeshop or The Front Porch.
Student Admission- $5 or $4 in advance, Family Admission- $25

Looking for some luck of the Irish? Head to the The Lucky Leprechaun Ball, and help support the Father Fred Foundation. This week, we were proud to report that Two Michigan Beers were voted by the NY Times as top Belgian style brews. We also featured a story about Dick Kerr, and his memoirs of the newspaper business. Lastly, we featured an amazing time lapse video by Ken Scott: A small Tribute to Ananda Bricker.

Week's Weather

March 9: Mostly sunny & 41 (55/26)
March 8: Sunny & 40 (54/25)
March 7: Mostly sunny & 48 (48/25)
March 6: Sunny & 45 (45/14)
March 5: Sunny & 37 (37/8)
March 4: Partly cloudy & 35 (35/11

Post your comments about the week's news, observations of the weather or the natural world or events below! You'll also want to check out the Leelanau Calendar and the latest news and features from Leelanau, Traverse City and the surrounding area in our blog! Here's the March 2009 archive, and Leelanau Almanac Week of February 25 – March 3.

Photo credit: Fall Scene Northport MI by Cheryl Parker Photography
I know this photo takes us back a few months, but have been trying to convince my friend, Cheryl, to post her picture to the leelanau (dot com) flickr pool. Since she finally did, thought that I would use one of her photos. Thank you, Cheryl!

Ken's words about Ananda from his flickr page:

... a very special person in the Glen Arbor art community and beyond . . .

and an inspiring person to me

obit is here.

... I've been asked a few times now about this piece and Ananda, so thought I'd
expand on that and how it pertains to this piece . . .

Ananda started the local art group and I joined when I first moved up to this region and knew nothing about 'art' let alone selling it!
... her family was one of the original investors in my first book that helped launch my regional career.
I've always thought highly of her, her husband and kids ... all creative types.
Ananda lived right across from the dune.
I was out Thursday night shooting this piece, not knowing why ...
hours of waiting while the images gathered and my thoughts were going in
their direction since they were across the way ...
I didn't know that she had passed ...
The next day I was driven to edit the piece, but didn't know why, I've learned
to go with my instincts and just kept at it ... got to a point I needed a
break and I went in to sit with the cats, have a cup of coffee and read the
local paper that had been sitting there since Wednesday ...
I opened the first page and it was the obit page, there she was and then it hit me ...
the energy behind the piece . . .
I did a quick re-edit to make it hers just in time to make the gather at their
house that aft and gave a copy to her husband who is a whole other story ...
amazing guy .. .. ..