By Jason WesseldykSports EditorBatman and Robin. Mario and Luigi. Snoopy and Charlie Brown. Those are some iconic duos.The Saugatuck girls basketball team has a terrific tandem of its own in junior guard Tali Laskowski and sophomore guard Mylah Simpson.The pair racked up a combined 44 points and 18 steals to lead the Trailblazers to the Read More…
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Blue Star
By Scott SullivanEditorPsychoGreat news on the crazy front. A new website aims to share knowledge and lead discussions about psychopathy, a disorder characterized by fearlessness, difficulty inhibiting behaviors plus severe lack of empathy and remorse.We all know psychopaths. Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, the Boston Strangler, Jack the Ripper … and those are just mass murderers. Read More…
Birders flock to barnacle goose seen here
By Scott SullivanEditorBirders were abuzz about a barnacle goose seen and photographed in a Saugatuck Township field and along the Kalamazoo River last week..If it can be documented as a wild bird, likely having migrated here from Greenland or northeast Russia, it would be the first ever seen and confirmed in Michigan.Township resident Brendt Sheridan Read More…
Pier Cove Park improvements set
By Scott SullivanEditorWork to improve Pier Cove Park will start March 24 thanks to state grants and local matching funds.Ganges Township — with help from a $266,000 Michigan Department of Natural Resources Trust Fund grant, its own $65,500 match plus $15,000 from Friend of Pier Cove Park, has hired Riverworks Construction to:
Douglas beefs up Beery Field charge
You’ll get twice the charge — but at a charge — from the Beery Field electric vehicle charging stations soon.The City of Douglas, which for five years has offered the service free east of the park’s restroom/storage building, will implement a 35-cent per kilowatt hour fee beginning March 26.The new fee, the city said in Read More…
Otsego High School to present “Seussical”
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor Oh, the sights you will see and the songs you will hear—Otsego High School’s production of the “Seussical” is almost here!The musical, inspired by the works of the one and only Dr. Seuss, will take the stage at OHS beginning Thursday, March 27, and run through Sunday, March 30The Thursday, Friday Read More…
High school student helps raise money for Parkinson’s
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor As a member of the Van Andel Institute’s Student Ambassador Program, Otsego senior Landon Eastman volunteers for events that raise money for Parkinson’s research.It’s a cause that hits close to home for Eastman, whose father is battling the disease.Eastman recently had the opportunity to share his father’s story at the 20th Read More…
Otsego girls defeat South Haven in semifinals
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor SOUTH HAVEN–Brooke Smalldon and Tessa Prough.That proved to be a winning combination for the Otsego girls basketball team in its Division 2 district semifinal against host South Haven on Wednesday, March 5.With 17 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter and the score tied at 48-48, Smalldon knocked down a pair of Read More…
Life as Performance Art
A year ago, somewhere between Halloween and Thanksgiving, there was a slight crisis on the home front. It was during this time that Madame Dewey realized she was missing a stocking. The default go-to response at other dire moments when something is missing was to ask me, “What have you done with… (said object?) Read More…
Mike’s Musings: Pat’s legacy will endure for many years
I lost a good friend and co-worker last week. Pat Maurer, has been a part of the Clare County Review since 1983, first as a sales rep, then a writer, then editor and finally as owner. Along the way my father and I purchased the paper from Gary Grim of Farwell and then a few Read More…