By Jason WesseldykSports EditorIt was quite a day for Saugatuck senior Kennedy Gustafson when the Trailblazers hosted SAC rival Constantine on Wednesday, April 16.Not only did Gustafson play half the game in goal and stop two shots, but she also played in the field and scored a pair of goals.That effort helped lift Saugatuck to Read More…
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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 1985 Otsego High School graduate—continues to make an impact on the district and its students.Best Read More…
Blue Star
By Scott SullivanEditorSearchLily Tomlin won a Tony Award 40 years ago for Best Actress in the one-woman play “The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in Universe.”Now NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided a sign, but only that, on the planet K2-18b. It’s 124 light years away, so start packing now.New observations suggest K2-18b’s Read More…
Firefighters snuff blaze near propane tanks
By Scott SullivanEditorSaugatuck Township Fire District crews joined mutual aid partners from Ganges, Graafschap, Fennville and Hamilton knocking dousing a storage building and vehicle fire in the 2500 block of 63rd Street Friday morning.Firefighters responding to the 5 a.m. call learned from Central Dispatch enroute that 200- and 500-pound propane tanks were near the structure,, Read More…
Local group plans to reopen Mermaid site
By Scott SullivanEditorSaugatuck’s Dockside Marketplace, home of the former Mermaid Bar & Grill and Baldy’s Smoked Meats, has been sold to local investors who plan to reopen it with a fresh look and new restaurant concepts.Boat Shed Properties LLC — whose principles include former Butler Restaurant owner Stephen Phelps, Phil’s Bar & Grille owner Phil Read More…
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 local students.The performance will take place on Saturday, June, 21, at the Plainwell Performing Arts Read More…
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, including a sweep of the doubles flights.Allegan’s No. 1 doubles team of Taylor Fuller/Hanna Kievit Read More…
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 the nightcap.In game one, Jaydon Watson had an RBI double to account for Otsego’s lone Read More…
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 have frozen pipes, or worse, frozen people. Still, it was uncomfortable, and by last weekend, Read More…
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 for no particular reason other than as a kid I had heard horror stories of Read More…