Township OKs 329+K water work
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR Saugatuck Township has awarded low bidder Redline Excavating a $329,042.64 contract to extend municipal water to a controversial ski lake development east of 66th Street and south of 135th Avenue. Work will be contingent on arranging…
Revised Wicks plan wins PC OK
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR The Saugatuck Planning Commission Monday voted 4-1 to approve a twice-tabled special land use and site plan application by Wicks Park Bar and Grille, 449 Water St., to extend operations into a former home behind it…
Obituary-Maryrita Peters
Maryrita Peters, 78, of Saugatuck, passed away on March 20, 2022 in Holland Hospital. She was preceded in death by her parents, Florence and John Doran, two brothers, John Jr. and Philip Doran, and nephew, Philip Doran Jr. also of…
Inflation, Ukraine situations hurt
By Mike WilcoxPublisherMost of us simply want peace in our lives, nation and world. We enjoy resting in a warm or cool house with something to eat, free from worry and stress.Peace is not always easy. This winter, chances are…
Life as Performance Art
By G.C. StoppelMid-March’s warm, sunny weather was a tonic we needed. This winter was a character builder; we had more cold, snow gray skies and bleak news than we wanted.With a few hours of sunshine, melting snow and migratory birds…
It’s spring
… not necessarily meaning you need to wear green hair and bows — as did Lily Sewall, 8, of Saugatuck on St. Patrick’s Day to play in the sunshine at Beery Field in Douglas. But it’s hard to fault being…
Revised Wicks plan wins Saugatuck OK
By Scott SullivanEditorThe Saugatuck Planning Commission Monday voted 4-1 to approve a twice-tabled special land use and site plan application by Wicks Park Bar and Grille, 449 Water St., to extend operations into a former home behind it at 121…
House fire first here in 15 months
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR A Saturday morning blaze caused severe damage to an Old Allegan Road home and ended a 15-month stretch of no structure fires in the Saugatuck Township Fire District jurisdiction, reported department IT director Erik Kirchert. A…
Big lake neighbors seek water main
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR Is building water lines to Lake Michigan like taking coals to Newcastle? Not for homeowners near the big lake. John Castro March 9 told the Saugatuck Township Board most, although not all, of his neighbors were…
Blue Star
By Scott SullivanEditorFossilsScientists have named a 330 million-year-old creature found fossilized in limestone Syllipsimopodi bideni after President Joe Biden. That makes Biden older than dinosaurs. Go figure.The fossil, discovered in Montana, was donated to the Royal Ontario Museum where it…
Obituary: Nancy Fosdick, 75
Nancy Lee Fosdick, 75, of Big Clifty, Ky., passed away on March 3, 2022.She was preceded in death by her parents, Charles and Josephine Fosdick, and stepmother Hazel Fosdick, all of Douglas.Nancy is survived by her husband, Fred Fetcho of…
Erin-Go-Brrr …
During some years Saugatuck’s St. Patrick’s Day Erin-Go-Bark Parade is a precursor to spring warmth and fun. Last Saturday’ event was, well fun, with costumed pooches and their pet humans braving snow squalls to strut downtown streets. Warmth is coming,…
SCA rowboats to ply Coghlin Park
By Scott SullivanEditorThis time it’s official. A Saugatuck Center for the Arts “wave” of rowboats planned this summer for Coghlin Park — wrongly reported here Jan. 27 winning Saugatuck City Council approval — Monday did, in adjusted form.The proposal, one…
Ukrainian and American Pain – We must unplug from Russia and China
I’m turning over my column space to my friend, Dr. Glenn Mollette this week. Mollett a doctor and a writer, is of the opinion we need to disconnect ourselves from a reliance on both Russian and Chinese goods. I couldn’t…
Life as Performance Art
Growing up, my favorite television cartoon program was Rocky and Bullwinkle. There were several different segments such as Fractured Fairy Tales, Dudley Doright, Mr. Know It All, and of course, the cartoon of Rocky the flying squirrel and his non-candidate for membership…
SCA Mountainfest fetes film, families
The fifth annual Mountainfilm on Tour: Saugatuck Film Festival — bringing together children’s programming, outdoor adventure, meaningful and creative films, and community collaboration — is underway at the Saugatuck Center for the Arts. Ongoing through March is a scavenger hunt.…
Township weighs buying well land for $1
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR The Saugatuck Township Board Wednesday, March 9, weighed closing on an Oct. 4, 2017 agreement to buy 5.8 acres owned by North Shores of Saugatuck LLC north of 135th Avenue for $ 1 to provide municipal…
Township eyes seeking $300K trail grant
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR The Saugatuck Township Board was scheduled Wednesday, March 9, to consider joining Saugatuck city applying for Michigan Department of Natural Resources Trust Fund grants of $300,000 each to help complete the nonmotorized Blue Star Trail through…
Douglas slates Union sidewalk work
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR Douglas will build a sidewalk south of Union Street from Center Street west to Blue Star Highway after city council Monday accepted an $88,475 low bid from Curt DeJonge Excavating of Holland to do the work.…
Blue Star
By Scott SullivanEditorSilly PuttySilly Putty came in a plastic egg you unscrewed. What came out was yolk-size, pink and magic, almost like a baby.You could press Silly Putty against newsprint — color funnies were best — and it reproduced an…
