SHERMAN TWP. — The St. Joseph County Sheriff’s Office is looking for the public’s help in finding a missing and endangered woman from Sherman Township. Police say 31-year-old Casey Marie White was last seen Wednesday at 1:10 p.m. leaving a house in the 20000 block of Schrader Road in Sherman Township along with two unidentified Read More…
By Scott Sullivan Editor Page 82 of this Thursday’s Saugatuck Planning Commission agenda packet lists learning that PC member C.J. Bagierek has likely operated a short-term rental on his 610 Lake St. properly illegally as a “Learning and Improvement Opportunity.” In the last New Business item on the 139-page March 19 PC docket, city manager Read More…
By Scott Sullivan Editor Debbi Larsen, 3071 May St., wrote the City of Douglas March 9 about her neighbor’s chickens. “These issues,” she said, “began over 2 years ago when Cassandra (not her real name) came to my door asking me to sign a paper saying she could have chickens, I had no idea about Read More…
By Scott Sullivan Editor Will Douglas settle for letting more and more roads crumble? city manager Lisa Nocerini posed it not quite that way. New PASER (Pavement Surface Evaluation Rating) figures more than one-third of the city’s 16 road miles are “poor” or “failing,” she wrote city council in a roads update prior to this Read More…
By Jim Hayden Correspondent The Laketown Township Board at a special meeting March 12 paused paving a dead-end road for financial concerns. They the week before had green-lit paving 61st Street north of 138th Avenue for about $441,000. The decision, though, came too late in one respect — the Allegan County Road Commission has already Read More…
By Jim Hayden Corresondent New stairs at Laketown Township Beach might be built this year following a township board decision March 12. Laketown applying for a state grant for other work at the beach as well. The board unanimously voted to shift money in its 2026-2027 budget, raising the amount for capital outlay in the Read More…
The Saugatuck-Douglas History Center, 130 Center St., downtown Douglas, will celebrate Women’s History Month on Rosie the Riveter Day this Saturday, March 21 hosting former Tribute Rosie Debra Wake. Doors will open at 2 for her 3 p.m. presentation. All are welcome free. Wake, a member of the American Rosie of the Riveter Association, earned Read More…
By Scott Sullivan Editor Saugatuck Township wants to replace “a right-of-way in the air” with a grounded north-south connecting road inland from where Lakeshore Drive washed out nearly 40 years. But so far the estimated $9+-million project has met, and not yet overcome, its own waves. First money: The township board March 11 recommitted $250,000 Read More…
Pups and their people prevailed at downtown Douglas’s annual pre-St. Patricks Day Erin Go Bark pet parade last Saturday. Lakeshore Pet Boutique once again organized the bash. (Photos by Scott Sullivan)
By Scott SullivanEditorDouble ThreatThok-thok-thok. One blow after another is good in pickleball for the players. Less so for editors who assume — i.e. make an ASS of U and ME — Saugatuck City Council March 9 would rubber-stamp its Parks and Public Works committee’s recommendation to replace the Village Square Park combined tennis/pickleball court with Read More…