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Taking a truck loaded with people tearing around the Sleeping Bear Dunes would land you in jail. But long before the days of endangered pitcher thistle plants and piping plovers, back when most people thought that a fragile ecosystem was something you better pack with extra styrofoam, there were the Dune Rides.   read more »

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April 28, 2006

Northport Recall Election on Tuesday

Filed under: government,Leelanau,northport — Andrew McFarlane @ 8:31 am

The Michigan Land Use Institute's Julie Hay leads with:

Spurred by intense controversy over the price, size, and need for a proposed new sewer system in their community—as well as the process local officials used to approve the project—voters in this sleepy village near the tip of the Leelanau Peninsula will decide next Tuesday whether to retain or recall seven members of their village board of trustees, who support the idea.

We'll leave it at that and direct you to read the MLUI's excellent analysis of a very complex issue and other articles.

Read Northport Board Faces Recall Over Sewer Petition from the Michigan Land Use Institute
Read Sewer Foes Out for Recall in the Record-Eagle

Village of Northport recall ballot language

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