Saugatuck/Douglas Commercial Record

It’s spring

It’s spring

Editorial StaffMar 23, 20221 min read

… 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

Revised Wicks plan wins Saugatuck OK

Editorial StaffMar 23, 20223 min read

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

House fire first here in 15 months

Editorial StaffMar 16, 20222 min read

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

Big lake neighbors seek water main

Editorial StaffMar 16, 20223 min read

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

Blue Star

Editorial StaffMar 16, 20224 min read

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

Obituary: Nancy Fosdick, 75

Editorial StaffMar 16, 20221 min read

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 …

Erin-Go-Brrr …

Editorial StaffMar 16, 20221 min read

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

SCA rowboats to ply Coghlin Park

Editorial StaffMar 16, 20224 min read

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

Ukrainian and American Pain – We must unplug from Russia and China

Editorial StaffMar 16, 20223 min read

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

Life as Performance Art

Editorial StaffMar 16, 20226 min read

   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

SCA Mountainfest fetes film, families

Editorial StaffMar 9, 20224 min read

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

Township weighs buying well land for $1

Editorial StaffMar 9, 20223 min read

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

Editorial StaffMar 9, 20225 min read

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

Editorial StaffMar 9, 20221 min read

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

Blue Star

Editorial StaffMar 9, 20224 min read

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…

Life as Performance Art

Life as Performance Art

Editorial StaffMar 9, 20225 min read

By G.C. StoppelThe next time you see photographs of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, you may want to hold your children closer. You are separated by just three degrees from that war.First degree: we know each other because you invite…

Mike’s Musings: Is government benefiting from war

Mike’s Musings: Is government benefiting from war

Editorial StaffMar 9, 20223 min read

Unlike many of us, I have a healthy distrust towards government and the media. I never ever believe what they tell us, without researching the issue or edict thoroughly. COVID in my opinion, was one of those issues that didn’t…

Township eyes seeking $300K trail grant

Township eyes seeking $300K trail grant

Editorial StaffMar 9, 20225 min read

By Scott SullivanEditorThe 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 the communities.A…

On ice

On ice

Editorial StaffMar 9, 20221 min read

Winter’s not over yet, nor officially until March 21, as witness this late-season ice angker pursuing panfish on Ox-Bow Lake in the Saugatuck Harbor Natural Area north of the back Oval Beach parking lot. Given seasonal thaws starting last week…

DELIVERY DRIVER WANTED

DELIVERY DRIVER WANTED

Editorial StaffMar 2, 20221 min read

Wilcox Newspapers is looking for several dedicated individuals to deliver the Paw Paw Flashes, Courier-Leader, and Commercial Record newspapers to local businesses and post offices in the tri-county area. Applicants must have a valid U.S. driver’s license and their own…

HUGE Estate Sale
August 27-30, 10 am - 5 pm (Part II September 17-19)
57520 Gearharts Landing, Three Rivers, MI

Antique furniture (some special finds!), Hoosier Cabinets, Wonderful dressers, Beds, Desks, Lamps, Wicker, Trunks, etc. Women’s Vintage Clothing, Fur Coats, Boots, Linens, Large Quilt Collection, Jewelry, Pocket Watches, Clocks, Nice Pottery, Comic Books, Huge amount of DVDs & CDs, extensive collection of Vintage Christmas, Patio and Garden Accents, Old Toys (many wind-up). Too much stuff to list! Over 60 years of accumulation! The Best Antique Sale we have ever seen! “Dealers, don’t miss this sale!”

Managed by Covered Bridge Estate
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