Investment Classics is revving up to showcase and sell classic cars in Saugatuck Township one block west of Blue Star Highway on the corner of 135th Avenue. Owner Ron Levine plans an open house there at 3512 Commercial Blvd. featuring finely restored 1950s to 2000s automobile ranging from vintage Thunderbirds, Mercedes, Jaguars and Porches Saturday, Read More…
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Douglas wins EPA Haworth cleanup grant
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR Douglas took a giant leap forward in its efforts to repurpose the former Haworth plant site May 12 when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency apprised city leaders their cleanup grant application has been accepted. The city, turned down by the EPA in 2021, late last year razed the eight-years-vacant 150,300-square-foot former Read More…
OHS joins Unified Champion Schools program
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor Student from the Otsego High School RISE (Reaching Independence through Support and Education) program took center stage on Thursday, May 12.Or, more accurately, they took center court.As part of the Special Olympics Michigan Unified Champion Schools program, the RISE students participated in a Bocce ball tournament in the gymnasium with more Read More…
Plainwell Music Society announces concert schedule
By Jason WesseldykSports EditorAfter seeing its 2020 season cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Plainwell Music Society resumed its Summer Concert Series last year with 10 Thursday evenings of music.This year, the Music Society has done one better.A total of 11 shows are on the schedule for 2022, beginning the Plainwell High School jazz Read More…
Trailblazers cruise to victory over Watervliet in soccer
By Jason WesseldykSports EditorThe Saugatuck offense was firing on all cylinders when the Trailblazers took on Watervliet in a SAC girls soccer matchup on Wednesday, May 11.And no Saugatuck player was firing at a higher level than Erin Moerler.Moerler found the back of the net not once, not twice, but three times in leading the Read More…
Obituary: Stanley Showers, 83
Stanley Effinger Showers, 83, of Texarkana, Texas, passed away on May 8, 2022.Stan was born in Colorado Springs, graduated from Saugatuck High School and attended Colorado College before beginning a family in Colorado.An early passion for sports cars led to his acquiring and trading several models; later he turned to fishing, golf, and garage sales Read More…
Blue Star
By Scott SullivanEditorWild DogsIn the spirit of calling a spade a long-handled tool with sharp-edged, typically-rectangular metal blade used to cut earth, sand and turf, I give you President Biden’s new Disinformation Governance Board.Picture Republicans’ glee when he threw pollsters this fat pitch. Disinformation and governance already is redundant. “Free” speech assumes it’s like “free” Read More…
Art Club tableau vivant blows by
By Scott SullivanEditorA tableau vivant is a silent, motionless person or persons arranged to represent a scene or incident. In another translation: What could be more French?Asked by Christa Wise last winter to pose as photographer for the Saugatuck-Douglas Art Club’s May 11 “You Ought to Be in Pictures” exercise, I said it sounds fun, Read More…
Douglas wins EPA Haworth grant
By Scott SullivanEditorDouglas took a giant leap forward in its efforts to repurpose the former Haworth plant site May 12 when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency apprised city leaders their cleanup grant application has been accepted.The city, turned down by the EPA in 2021, late last year razed the eight-years-vacant 150,300-square-foot former factory on 7.18 Read More…
Obituary: Alvin Lee Lubowitz, 86
Alvin Lee Lubowitz, 86, passed away on December 6, 2021 at his home in Fennville, Michigan. He was born in Flint, Michigan on August 19th 1935 to Verna and Gustav Lubowitz. He was married to Roseann Nowocki-Lubowitz on May 12, 2000. Alvin is preceded by death by his parents Verna and Gustav Lubowitz and wife Read More…