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Blue + gold = green?
By Scott SullivanEditorSaugatuck long has been primed for growth. Think blue skies reflecting on water, sun glinting off sand dunes and beaches, the two primary hues combining to feed green trees, inland orchards and money as consequence, good or bad.…
City moves Water Street watermain work till fall
By Scott SullivanEditorSaugatuck City Council Monday, May 4 changed scheduled Water Street watermain valve work to dates and times less impactful to residents and businesses, with appropriate advance notice.Based on assessment by engineers, the contractor and staff, completing this work…
PCS honors Outstanding People for Education recipients
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor Plainwell Community Schools recently honored three staff members as recipients of the 2026 Outstanding People for Education Award, recognizing their impact on students and the district community.Receiving the honors were Caitlin Bunker, Julie Jackson and Noel…
Plainwell preparing for annual Memorial Day parade
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor The Plainwell community will once again gather to honor and remember those who gave their lives in service to the country during the city’s annual Memorial Day parade on Monday, May 25.The parade is scheduled to…
Otsego native joins city police department
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor The Otsego Police Department recently welcomed a familiar face to its ranks.Officer Elisabeth Hoffman, an Otsego High School graduate, has joined the department after previously serving as a road patrol deputy with the Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s…
Sports
Saugatuck girls place third at SAC Championship Meet
By Jason WesseldykSports EditorGOBLES—Novella DeGraaf helped lead the Saugatuck girls track and field team to a third-place finish Tuesday at the Southwestern Athletic Conference Championship meet at Gobles High School.Saugatuck totaled 75 points to place third in the 18-team field,…
Allegan tennis secures another SAC/Lakeland title
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor The Allegan girls tennis team continued its run atop the SAC/Lakeland Conference on Friday.The Tigers captured their fourth straight conference championship, doing so in dominant fashion at the conference tournament by winning seven of the eight…
Otsego earns home sweep over Vikings
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor OTSEGO—Host Otsego picked up a softball doubleheader sweep over Hopkins on Friday, May 8, earning a 10-0 win in the opener before following with a 14-5 victory in the nightcap.The Bulldogs combined for 24 hits across…
Paw Paw splits twin bill
By John RaffelCorrespondent PAW PAW — Paw Paw split with Otsego on May 4, losing 9-3 and winning 4-0 in the second game.Varsity baseball couldn’t overcome defensive miscues and lost 9-3 in the opener. Ryan Holmes and Caden Bowneach had…
Soccer Roundup Three Rivers 2-1 on week with wins over Edwardsburg, Paw Paw
THREE RIVERS — Three Rivers’ girls’ soccer team went 2-1 in the last week, with wins over Edwardsburg and Paw Paw and a loss at home to Dowagiac.On Thursday, April 30, the ‘Cats beat the Eddies 4-1 on their own…
Columns
Life as Performance Art
Conspiracy theorists have taken time off from party, gender and the usual run of politics to resummon and oldie-but-goodie, UFOs.Given the rancor and stridency such said-hot-buttonConsidering some of the other hot-button topics of sure to generate ranting and rancor, flying…
Mike’s Musings: One Vote Can Change Everything – remember the tie vote in Hopkins
If anyone still doubts whether one vote matters, they need only look to what happened last Tuesday in Hopkins, a school district in Allegan County. In what some say was a record turnout, a bond issue did not pass because…
Out and About: True words, mobile markets, and dog love
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” -Daniel Patrick MaynihanSOME VERY TRUE WORDS:
May I Walk with You? HARD TRUTHS
As I was reading a meditation by St. Catherin of Siena in the Magnificat prayer aid for April 29th, I was struck by the fact that we “are convinced by lively faith that whatever God gives and permits us is…
Blue Star
By Scott SullivanEditorCracking CodesThe mugger who demanded “What’s the frequency, Kenneth?” while assaulting CBS News Anchor Dan Rather Oct. 4, 1986, was only identified eight years later as William Tager.Rather, having wrapped up another broadcast, was walking to his Manhattan…
