• Little Gathering in the Office Friday

    From the head of the Employee Relations Committee, Robin Rommell: “We are having a reception at the Village office this Friday from 3:00 to 4:00 to show off our newly renovated office space and to give Village residents an opportunity to say goodbye, and a big “thank you,” to our clerk, Cathy Anderson, on her last day.” Please join us! The office is now fully ADA compliant, per law for public facilities, and Cathy Anderson has been a prime mover behind making that, and many other important law- and proper-procedure-abiding measures, happen during her three years working and volunteering for… More

  • Baby’s Breath: Scourge of America

    Baby’s breath: Nice in a wedding bouquet or a prom corsage (maybe), but not so nice when it takes over your whole beach, pushing out native plants that naturally grow almost nowhere else besides our unique shoreline. You can help work to remove these shrubby masses from our beach by joining forces with the Invasive Species Network on volunteer bee days this summer. Enjoy the beach, work your hockey muscles, and meet cool people. Wear long pants and gloves, because there’s natural poison ivy out there, too. And we like that. —Emily Votruba   More

  • Elberta Farmers Market Calendars on Sale Now

    *Now available on Etsy! Ask for the volume discount of 5 calendars for $15* The Elberta Farmers Market opens its 2017 season on May 18 at 8 am, and you’ll be all ready for it with the first-ever Elberta Farmers Market Calendar! On sturdy, glossy cardstock, this one-page calendar poster is perfect for your kitchen wall or refrigerator, and will keep you posted on market days and times and what’s in season every week. It even has space for sticky notes about other things you have to remember. For just $5, you can support the market and have a beautiful reminder… More

  • Spring Cleanup May 6

    It’s spring cleanup time in the Village! New this year: CURBSIDE scrap metal and *appliance* pickup, as well as car batteries and marine batteries. If you have some of these items ready to go, kick ’em to the curb Saturday, May 6, before 9 am. As for the rest of your junk, take it down to the Village garage between 9 and 2. If you aren’t physically able to haul your stuff away, Sue Oseland will be driving a truck around on that day. Also, the Village needs some help down at HQ coordinating dropoffs, etc., so if you’d like to… More

  • Enliven Your Garden, Save Money, Heal the Earth, Talk to Cool People

    Grow Benzie continues its project of greening up the county with several spring events. Now is a great time to get your gardening synapses firing, and GB is going to hook you up to a clean power source. This coming Tuesday, April 11, it’s the State of the Small Farms Dinner at 6 pm, where you can eat delicious food prepared by the Northern Michigan Culinary Arts Community chefs as you learn what our local growers are up to and thinking about. Learn more on Facebook! The next Tuesday, April 18, earth genius Craig Schaaf continues his lessons on Building Healthy Soil to get… More

  • Superintendent Recommends Platte River Elementary for Closure

    A community meeting will be held this evening at Platte River Elementary at 7PM and a Board Meeting on March 13 at 7 pm in the Middle School Computer Lab to discuss the recommended closure of Platte River Elementary. Matt Olson, Benzie County Central Schools superintendent, sent out a fact sheet (below) in an email to members of the district’s community committee. “I’m putting this out there to ask for your help,” Olson wrote. “This is a difficult, emotionally wrought issue on many levels. Please spread what you know regarding the position our district is in and the relative condition… More