Sparks receives Otsego Outstanding Alumnus Award
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor Each year, Otsego Public Schools honors a past graduate with the Outstanding Alumnus Award during the Otsego High School Honors Night.This year’s honoree was Brian Spark.Described as a “lifelong bulldog” in a release from OPS, Sparks—a…
Summer children’s theater returns to Plainwell
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor Children’s theater is returning to Plainwell for the upcoming summer.The Plainwell Arts Council recently announced the Missoula Children’s Theater (MCT) will put on a production of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” featuring more than 60…
Allegan tennis beats Schoolcraft
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor SCHOOLCRAFT—After hosting the Tiger Invitational on Saturday, April 19, the Allegan girls tennis team returned to SAC/Lakeland action on Monday, April 21, with a road match in Schoolcraft.And the Tigers came away with the 7-1 win,…
Otsego baseball falls to K-Central
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor KALAMAZOO—The Otsego baseball team squared off with Kalamazoo Central in a non-conference twin bill on Monday, April 21, and came up short in both contests.The Bulldogs dropped the opener 11-1 before suffering the 13-2 defeat in…
Life as Performance art
On the whole, as things go, this past week’s surprise natural gas outage, wasn’t really all that bad. It could have been worse; a lot worse. Fortunately, the disruption came when the weather was moderate, so we did not…
Mike’s Musings: Quicksand drama turns in to romantic relationship
I was flipping channels the other night when a question was asked. What did you fear most as a kid? There were a variety of answers but one of the answers was quicksand.I immediately concurred. Quicksand was fear of mine…
Easter weekend brings crowds to Allegan
By Gari Voss The weekend of April 18-20, 2025, was again packed with possibilities for all ages. The events really began on Thursday, April 17th and did not slow down until the afternoon of Saturday, April 19th.The “weekend” really began…
Many hoops exist if council were toconsider police change
By Gari Voss Conversations arose when the City of Allegan was informed by City Manager Joel Dye that the council needed to find ways to finance a laundry list of projects over the next 10 years. During that meeting, the…
Firefighters rescue woman from house fire in Otsego
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor Shortly after midnight on Tuesday, April 8, the Otsego Fire Department and other local agencies responded to a fire at a home in the 200 block of S. Grant St. in Otsego.According to Otsego Director of…
Plainwell plans third annual Spring Soiree on April 26
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor Spring is officially here.And in the City of Plainwell, that means it’s time once again for the Spring Soiree.Now in its third year, the Spring Soiree will take place in downtown Plainwell beginning at 10 a.m.…
Construction project begins on M-89 between Plainwell and Martin
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor Motorists travelling on US-131 between Plainwell and Martin should plan for backups and delays for the next several weeks.On Monday, April 14, the Michigan Department of Transportation began a $1.4-million construction project on the four-mile stretch…
Hart to be honored during Arbor Day Celebration at Ransom Library
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor On Friday, April 25, Ransom District Library, in partnership with the City of Plainwell, will celebrate “the beauty and importance of trees” with an Arbor Day ceremony beginning at 3 p.m.In addition to the City handing…
Allegan’s Edwards Jr. named Second Team All-State
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor ALLENDALE—Allegan junior basketball standout Quentin Edwards Jr. knows a thing or two about scoring, as evidenced by his school-record 44-point effort in a game this season.But there’s more to Edwards’ game than simply putting the ball…
Girls Tennis Preview:
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor ALLEGANNew season.Same expectations for Allegan.“It’s the same expectations every year for us,” Allegan coach Damien Arthur said. “Allegan girls tennis has a long history of contending for conference and regional championships as well as top-10 finishes…
Proposal presented to eliminate city police department
By Gari Voss The Monday, April 14, 2025, meeting of the Allegan City Council began with clarification of a conversation that occurred during the April 10th Budget Session. It continued on a lighter note with Mayor Traci Perrigo making the…
Natural Gas Leak affects thousands from Fennville to Saugatuck
By Gari Voss News came on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, at 2:40pm that a natural gas leak had occurred in the Allegan County Game Area in the area of 57th Street and 122nd Avenue. Approximately 5,200 residents and business lost…
Mike’s Musings: Give tariffs a chance, they may work
Let’s give the tariffs time to work. If they don’t work I will be the first to admit I was wrong. President Trump seems to be backing off his hardline positions with a 90-day reprieve for most, and taking tariffs…
Life as Performance Art
Sometimes we learn more about ourselves and our fu-ture by looking back in histo-ry.Today, we go back about a century to the Roaring ‘20s. Babe Ruth is slamming home runs, the Four Horse-men are playing for Knute Rockne at Notre…
Op-Ed from Allegan City Manager, Joel Dye
To the editor: I am writing to correct the misinformation in the April 17 edition of the paper that mischaracterizes the April 14 meeting of the Allegan City Council. If you just read the headline, you’d be left with an…
Pipeline leak shuts down gas to 5K+ homes
A natural gas transmission pipeline damaged near Fennville Wednesday cut off service to some 5,200 customers in the Saugatuck/Douglas/Fennville area. More than 200 Michigan Gas Utilities and other crews from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois and continued working to restore service…
