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Holiday celebrations hit full swing

Editorial StaffNov 29, 20233 min read

Post-Thanksgiving holiday celebrations are underway hereabouts in earnest.  Here’s a coming week’s mini-sampler: Saturday, Sept. 1: Ox-Bow House Winter Artist Markets, 130 Center St., downtown Douglas; and Crane’s drive-through holiday light shows at the family’s 51-year Fennville orchards, 6054 124th…

City, landowner OK Park Street work

Editorial StaffNov 29, 20233 min read

By Scott Sullivan Editor It takes bank to deal with eroding riverbanks. To that end, Saugatuck City Council agreed Monday to spend up to $40,000 installing storm sewer infrastructure on west side Kalamazoo River lots fronting Park Street. Owners of…

Holiday ornament stars Wicks Park gazebo

Editorial StaffNov 29, 20232 min read

The Saugatuck-Douglas History Center will roll out its new holiday ornament, commemorating the bicentennial gazebo in Saugatuck’s Wicks Park, during the Saugatuck Center for the Arts Holiday Market Saturday, Dec. 2. Priced at $50, this 4-inch-long hanging ornament is hand-crafted…

Saugatuck girls basketball eyes successful campaign

Editorial StaffNov 29, 20233 min read

By Jason WesseldykSports EditorIt’s been said that it’s not how you start that’s important, but how well you finish.Saugatuck was a perfect example of that last season.After posting a 7-9 record through their first 16 games, the Trailblazers won eight…

Maggie’s Pantry

Maggie’s Pantry

Editorial StaffNov 29, 20232 min read

By Maggie ConklinHeart and LiverAs you may know by now, I like to hunt. Much of the enjoyment I get from doing this is simply spending time in the forests, and much of it is the satisfaction I get from…

Blue Star

Blue Star

Editorial StaffNov 29, 20235 min read

By Scott SullivanEditorWay ThereOne of my first tests as Michigan Runner editor was write about the 25 top state running stores. So far I’d set foot in three. Publisher Art McCafferty wanted six top-25 features, one each bimonthly, to fete…

Full Circle

Editorial StaffNov 29, 20231 min read

Glenn’s annual Circle of Lights Friday feted the winter holidays’ start with visits from Santa and Mrs. Claus in a horse-drawn sleigh and stroll down a luminarty path towards warmer climes. At the Glenn School (photos above and at immediate…

City hopes $40K helps save banks

Editorial StaffNov 29, 20232 min read

By Scott SullivanEditorIt takes bank to deal with eroding riverbanks. To that end, Saugatuck City Council agreed Monday to spend up to $40,000 installing storm sewer infrastructure on west side Kalamazoo River lots fronting Park Street.Owners of homes at 850…

Life as Performance Art

Life as Performance Art

Editorial StaffNov 29, 20236 min read

    Don, whose last name I have forgotten, had been a career, a Drill Instructor on Paris Island, and finally hung up his hat after thirty years. Too young to sit around at home or drink too much at the VFW…

Mike’s Musings: Are we in Danger of losing Free Speech?

Mike’s Musings: Are we in Danger of losing Free Speech?

Editorial StaffNov 29, 20233 min read

All I want for Christmas is the return of free speech to America and the rest of the world. Free speech, long a credo of Democracy, has been hijacked by those that can’t stand others having a differing opinion. Thus,…

Obituary: Albert E. “Albie” Blommaert

Obituary: Albert E. “Albie” Blommaert

Editorial StaffNov 22, 20231 min read

Albert E. “Albie” Blommaert, age 74, of Saugatuck, formerly of Chicago Heights, Ill., passed away peacefully Friday, Nov. 10, 2023.He was the loving dad of Brian Blommaert and Christie (Lance) Krout; loud and cherished grandpa of Mason Blommaert, Meri Reese…

Maggie’s Pantry

Maggie’s Pantry

Editorial StaffNov 22, 20232 min read

By Maggie ConklinPlum Tart Yum TartI was chatting with my neighbor Christa Wise about, you guessed it, food. More specifically, about deserts.She said she’d procured ingredients for Margaret McDermott’s plum tart recipe, the finished product’s beauty and intricacies of getting…

Blue Star

Blue Star

Editorial StaffNov 22, 20235 min read

By Scott SullivanEditorThe Real WayLate Friday, Oct. 13, was no time to venture far from the Three Rivers Super 8. Carter and I had an early next a.m. video gig for which squalls were announcing themselves already.In asphalt lot cracks…

6-year Barrel vendor out

Editorial StaffNov 22, 20238 min read

By Scott SullivanEditorMick White is out at the Douglas Old Root Beer Barrel. After helping the city bring the landmark back to life six years ago, he has lost his lease-renewal bid.Mayor Jerry Donovan told Fox 17 TV Nov. 15…

Life as Performance Art

Life as Performance Art

Editorial StaffNov 22, 20237 min read

    “They don’t make Thanksgivings like they used to,” Ol’ Curdlepuss moaned the other day. “Back when I was growing up it was pretty good, but not so much anymore. It isn’t the way it used to be.”      He didn’t wait for…

Mike’s Musings: Holidays are here, enjoy your family

Mike’s Musings: Holidays are here, enjoy your family

Editorial StaffNov 22, 20233 min read

As we partake in a Thanksgiving feast, watch football, and enjoy time with our relatives, I harken back to these words from Apple founder, Steve Jobs, who died at the age of 56, and lamented about his lack of time…

Maggie’s Pantry

Maggie’s Pantry

Editorial StaffNov 15, 20232 min read

By Maggie ConklinPimento CheeseKelly O’Brien, owner of Lakeshore Tanning next door to LadyHawk Nutrition in Douglas, is a local woman, born and raised in the area. She transplanted to South Carolina for 30 years, but has been back three years…

Blue Star

Blue Star

Editorial StaffNov 15, 20235 min read

By Scott SullivanEditorThe Hungry IMachine dreams I had, of storytelling gear Carter might bring new when he showed at the Three Rivers Super 8.It was Friday, Oct. 13, inverted digits of Halloween. There for a night at the inn, then…

The Red & the Black

Editorial StaffNov 15, 20231 min read

… as in Stendhal’s novel of that name, were color themes for Saugatuck’s annual Veterans Day celebration Saturday, as brought to life by singer McKenzie Boyce and chaplin/orator G.C. Stoppel. Though the Nov. 11, 11:11 a.m. start time — comemmorating…

Saugatuck turns out 91.7% for uncontested vote

Editorial StaffNov 15, 20232 min read

By Scott SullivanEditorThe no surprises expected were realized in Nov. 7 Saugatuck and Douglas city council elections, each for three uncontested 2-year seats.In Saugatuck, incumbent Russ Gardner’s 244 votes were sandwiched by 250 for Holly Anderson and 223 for Logan…