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CDC updates framework to monitor COVID-19
LAWRENCE – As of Feb. 25, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its framework to monitor the level of COVID 19 and communities.Dr. Walensky, the Director at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that “the COVID-19 community level chart will inform CDC recommendations on prevention measures like masking and Read More…
PP Schools Community Forum to explain bond proposal
PAW PAW – On March 24, at 7 p.m., the public is invited to attend a Community Forum and Walk Through at Paw Paw Later Elementary School, 612 North St. This in-person event will be hosted by Paw Paw Public Schools Superintendent Rick Reo.Community members will have an opportunity to learn more about the upcoming Read More…
Blue Star
By Scott SullivanEditorFossilsScientists have named a 330 million-year-old creature found fossilized in limestone Syllipsimopodi bideni after President Joe Biden. That makes Biden older than dinosaurs. Go figure.The fossil, discovered in Montana, was donated to the Royal Ontario Museum where it sat undisturbed in a drawer from 1988 till recently when paleontologist Christopher Whalen pulled it Read More…
Obituary: Nancy Fosdick, 75
Nancy Lee Fosdick, 75, of Big Clifty, Ky., passed away on March 3, 2022.She was preceded in death by her parents, Charles and Josephine Fosdick, and stepmother Hazel Fosdick, all of Douglas.Nancy is survived by her husband, Fred Fetcho of Kentucky; brother Tom and Sally Fosdick of Holland; sister Jackie and John Vohiken of Grand Read More…
Erin-Go-Brrr …
During some years Saugatuck’s St. Patrick’s Day Erin-Go-Bark Parade is a precursor to spring warmth and fun. Last Saturday’ event was, well fun, with costumed pooches and their pet humans braving snow squalls to strut downtown streets. Warmth is coming, really … when it decides to. (Photos by Scott Sullivan)
SCA rowboats to ply Coghlin Park
By Scott SullivanEditorThis time it’s official. A Saugatuck Center for the Arts “wave” of rowboats planned this summer for Coghlin Park — wrongly reported here Jan. 27 winning Saugatuck City Council approval — Monday did, in adjusted form.The proposal, one of seven installations the Center plans locally marking its 20th anniversary, won conceptual approval at Read More…
OPS receives Gold Medallion Award
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor The Michigan School Public Relations Association recently presented Otsego Public Schools with its Gold Medallion Award.The award, which recognizes outstanding programs or projects that advance education through responsible communication, was in response to OPS’s successful Propelling Otsego Forward initiative. The goal of this initiative was to pass a bond proposal through Read More…
Obituary: Donald B. Lucas, 89
Donald B. Lucas, 89 of Allegan, passed away in Ascension Allegan Hospital on March 11, 2022. Don was born in Cadillac, Michigan on August 3, 1932 to Abram and Lena (Westmaas) Lucas. The family moved to Grand Rapids when don was a teen along with brothers Myron (Sandra), Jim (Martha), and Bob (Laura). While attending Read More…