Willarda Smith News Today

Willard A. Smith, the Charlevoix Sentinel’s founder and editor, was not hesitant in praising his paper and his success with it.

One hundred and fifty years ago, Charlevoix Sentinel editor Willard Smith lambasted an area editor for stealing one of his articles.

Old newspaper articles beckon potential home owners to Charlevoix County

100 year ago, lumbering, which had begun in earnest in this region in the 1860s, had reached its end. There were no more first growth trees to topple.

One hundred years ago, a Charlevoix resident received recognition from the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission for a heroic rescue.

Looking Back reviews the news from Charlevoix from 150, 100 and 50 years ago.

Round Lake began life at the end of the last Ice Age as a “kettle” lake when the glaciers, some of them two miles high, began to retreat.