By Jason WesseldykSports Editor Lyrics on the Lawn is back.Following a two-year hiatus due to COVID, the popular free summer concert series is returning to the Otsego District Library on Thursdays in August. All shows start at 7 p.m.This year’s slate of performers includes the Samuel Nalangira Trio (world) on Aug. 4, Calabogie Road (bluegrass) Read More…
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Blue Star
By Scott SullivanEditorDownloadI learn doing and undoing. Take the flash. After nine years of natural-light photography I bought a Speedlite for an indoor shoot. Time had come.It arrived the p.m. before the shoot and I quaked unpacking it. My Depression-raised Dad taught me get a return when you invest in yourself; it is not an Read More…
Supreme Court says rehear dunes standing
By Scott SullivanEditorThe Michigan Supreme Court Friday struck down past local and state appeals court rulings that a dunes preservation group lacked standing to appeal 2017 go-aheads given a proposed NorthShore of Saugatuck development north of the Kalamazoo River channel to Lake Michigan.The high court by 5-2 decision remanded the issue back to Allegan County Read More…
No bowl of cherries for toppled truck
First responders don’t get to cherry pick incidents they are called to but an exception came July 13 when a semi and 48-foot trailer hauling 48 crates of cherries overturned on northbound I-196 just north of Exit 34 at 3:41 a.m. “Since the wreck was positioned on the shoulder,” said Saugatuck Township Fire District IT Read More…
Blue Star Trail alive +, backers say
By Scott SullivanEditorRumors of the Blue Star Trail’s death may be premature, witness backers’ response to a temporary state grant turndown and perhaps a July 21 Commercial Record front-page headline “$1.72+ million Trail request dead ends, for now.”Assuming one overlooks “for now.” Defeat and delay are different.Project engineer C2AE’s response to a July 8 letter Read More…
Allegan’s Bronkema records first hole in one
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor SAUGATUCK—With her round coming to an end at Clearbrook Golf Club on Monday, July 11, Zoe Bronkema admits that her level of concentration wasn’t quite where it usually is.“It was kind of a weird round,” said Bronkema, a senior-to-be at Allegan High School who was playing as part of the Girls Read More…
Logan Sweet found after three day search
The Michigan State Police announced that the body of 31-year-old Logan Thayer Sweet of Hamilton was located on Wednesday, July 27, 2022 at 3:22pm near 134th Avenue and 32nd Street in Monterey Township between Hamilton and Dorr. The preliminary investigation shared that it appears Sweet’s bike left the road and hit a tree.The search for Read More…
Blue-Green algae problem returns to Swan Lake
Tuesday, July 26, 2022, the Allegan County Health Department received a call that cyanobacteria bloom was detected near the beach at a campground on Swan Lake in Cheshire Township. Nicole Taubner, Sanitarian & Water Quality Specialist with ACHD, took samples and did a preliminary test of the water to determine the toxicity in the harmful Read More…
Allegan abuzz with bevy of weekend events
Downtown Allegan was buzzing during the last weekend in July! From Hubbard to Brady to Locust to Trowbridge and along Water Streets businesses and community members were involved in a variety of activities.The festivities began on Thursday, July 28, 2022, with Allegan Sidewalk Days…
Obituary: Robert Leon Leslie, 70
Robert Leon Leslie, 70 of Allegan, Michigan, reunited with his loving wife, Kim, on Sunday, July 10, 2022 with his family by his side. Born March 29, 1952 in Douglas, Michigan, he was the son of the late Earl and Helen (Sisson) Leslie. Robert enjoyed playing basketball, football and track and was voted most outstanding Read More…