BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR Owners of Holland’s Port 393 plan this June to open a new Ivy House event center on the 7-acre former Bloomin’ on Blue Star garden center at 3291 Blue Star Hwy. “Ivy House,” said Candice Grant, who with her husband Brian Grant in 2020 opened the $2-million, 6,500-square-foot Port 393, “will Read More…
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White named Saugatuck project manager
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR Deputy Clerk Kate White has a new job in Saugatuck City Hall: Project Manager. White, who started there as a graduate student and summer intern June 14, 2021, never left, advancing to deputy clerk responsible for, among other things, conducting surveys, studies and reporting results to city council and the public. Read More…
Longtime Butler Owner Had Vivid Life
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR Patti Beery is blessed and cursed with the legacy of her father Verse White, who died Dec. 10 at age 90 after owning The Butler restaurant … well, forever. Blessed because his story is rich, cursed because who has time and a venue free of appropriateness gestapo in which to tell Read More…
Obituary: Phyllis Cassady
Phyllis Cassady, 94 Phyllis Evelyn Cassady (Haraburda) of Douglas passed away Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022 in Holland Hospital. She was born Feb, 14, 1927 (Valentine’s Day) in Grand Rapids, Michigan to Stanley and Marie (Anuskiewicz) Haraburda. Mom graduated from Sacred Heart Catholic School in 1945. She worked at Brooks Trucking Co. at night doing clerical Read More…
Crash Corner
Are Blue Star lights warranted? BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR A traffic analysis conducted by Allegan County Road Commission consultants shows traffic volumes may warrant signal lights at corners of Blue Star Highway and Old Allegan Road, aka “Crash Corner,” and further south at Lake Street — but crash volumes don’t. This may surprise some given Read More…
Law Enforcement Appreciation
SPORTS EDITOR When students arrived at Dix Street Elementary School in Otsego on Monday, Jan. 9, they were greeted by officers from the Otsego Police Department and the Michigan State Police. In addition to saying “hello” to the officers, several of the students presented the visitors with homemade cards expressing words of encouragement. Dix Street Read More…
Allegan County COVID cases pass 21,000
By John Raffel Correspondent ALLEGAN — The number of COVID-19 cases in Allegan County posted by health department officials coming into this week was up to 21,376. Deaths rose by eight from a week ago to 287. Governor Whitmer announced in June restrictions would be lifted as COVID numbers were going down and vaccination numbers Read More…
Redistricting Maps Take Affect for 2022 Elections
By Gari Voss The new district boundaries were approved by the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission (MICRC) on December 28, 2021 in an 8 to 5 vote. This was the first time Michigan utilized an independent redistricting commission since the 2018 vote that transferred the power to draw congressional and legislative districts away from the Read More…
MI Supreme Court Appoints Kengis to Replace Bakker
By Gari Voss The Michigan Supreme Court made their current appointments to the courts across the state. The Allegan County decisions included the new appointment of the Honorable Roberts A. Kengis as chief justice of the 48 th Circuit Court, and the chief judge reappointment of the Honorable Michael L. Buck to the Allegan County Read More…
Obituary: Dennis Edward Orweller
Dennis Edward Orweller October 31, 1942 – January 1, 2022 Dennis Edward Orweller, 79, of Allegan, Michigan, went to be with his Lord and Savior on Saturday, January 1, 2022 at Ascension Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Dennis was born October 31, 1942 in Fowlerville, Michigan to the late Edward and Marjorie (Wortman) Orweller Read More…