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  • A carousel of colors
    BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR The lakeshore showed off summer colors as sun shone on Community Pride Week festivities in Douglas June 1-4 and Fennville poppy fields in full bloom. The fifth Community Pride Week feted diversity of all people all people with an array of fun including drag bowling, book-burning panel talk, Care-A-Van car parade Read More…
  • Douglas OKs school bus land rezone
    BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR Douglas City Council Monday rezoned the Saugatuck Public Schools’ bus-parking lot on the southwest corner of Blue Star Highway and Fremont Street from C-2 General Commercial to C-1 Village Center near the highway and R-5 Residential in its wooded back parcel. District superintendent Tim Travis has voiced interest in moving bus Read More…
  • Fennville ends chief search, goes with sheriff
    BY JIM HAYDEN CORRESPONDENT Dedicated police coverage will return to Fennville in July, more than six months after the police chief resigned and after two candidates to replace him backed out at the last minute. The city commission Monday voted unanimously to contract for one fulltime officer from the Allegan County Sheriff’s Office, ending 10 Read More…
  • Blue Star
    By Scott SullivanEditorSpy WhaleNow them Russkies done it: sent a spy whale snooping in seas near Norway and Sweden. Is Oval Beach next?Hvaldimir, a beluga, was first seen four years ago wearing a harness with camera mounts. No GoPros were attached, but “Equipment St. Petersburg” read the clips.“The Russian Navy,” said Norwegian marine biologist Jorgen Read More…
  • A carousel of colors
    By Scott SullivanEditorThe lakeshore showed off summer colors as sun shone on Community Pride Week festivities in Douglas June 1-4 and Fennville poppy fields in full bloom.The fifth Community Pride Week feted diversity of all people all people with an array of fun including drag bowling, book-burning panel talk, Care-A-Van car parade plus two days Read More…
  • Saugatuck’s Robison earns All-State at D3 State Finals
    By Jason WesseldykSports Editor KENT CITY—Saugatuck sophomore Mazie Robison just keeps adding to an already impressive track & field resume.Competing at the Division 3 State Finals on Saturday, June 3, Robison turned in a pair of All-State performances to give her a total of three All-State medals for her career.In the 100-meter hurdles, Robison moved Read More…
  • Life as Performance Art
         Decades ago, when Montreal hosted a world’s fair, a friend of my parents had only three days to see everything.  For a normal person, that would not be sufficient time, but he was not someone considered normal.   People said he was dumber than dirt, an odd ball, a bubble off center, and just plain strange. To make Read More…
  • Mike’s Musings: ChatGPT writes why local newspapers are important
    I wrote an opinion a couple weeks ago about AI, and how it is fast invading many aspects of our society. One offshoot of AI is ChatGPT, a very popular application that students and professionals use to create reports, essays and the like. I was curious about its capabilities, so I asked ChatGPT to write Read More…
  • Obituary: John Hanley, 89
    John Patrick Hanley was born on March 17, 1934, in Peoria, Ill. to John and Sherma Hanley. He grew up in South Peoria and attended St. Mark’s Grade School. From an early age, he was driven by hard work and the value of a dollar. John tagged along with his father in Peoria picking parts from old cars before they were scrapped Read More…
  • Trail Friends to toast year’s Success
    Friends of the Blue Star Trail will roll into their annual “A Toast to the Blue Star Trail” funder Monday, June 26 at Inisfree Estate in Pullman with progress to celebrate. Guests can raise a glass towards winning conditional approval for $1.3-million and $300,000 state grants last year towards completing the recreational trail’s northern section Read More…
  • Saugatuck runners compete at Under the Lights meet
    By Jason WesseldykSports EditorGRAND RAPIDS—With two weeks between track regionals and the state finals, the annual Distance Under the Lights meet at Houseman Field has become a popular event for many runners in the area.The meet takes place the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend—one week after regionals and one week before the finals—and features the Read More…
  • Obituary: Janet Tomlinson, 83
    Janet Ellen Tomlinson passed away quietly and comfortably on May 22, 2023 at Douglas Cove in Douglas.She was born on Aug. 20, 1939 in Muskegon to Mary and Raymond L. McKamy. Janet is survived by her daughter Christy Tomlinson and her sisters Marjorie Virdin and Anne and Charles Krecke. In addition to her parents, she Read More…
  • Blue Star
    By Scott SullivanEditor50th Reunion, Part 2It was assuring knowing I would die lacking nothing. The nurse and druggist had denied me insulin. Blood sugar played Bach’s Toccata and Fugue on my organs.“I’d considered going,” I said.“To your 50th reunion?” asked neither.“It was over before it started.”I had clicked an invite link to a video of Read More…
  • Life as Performance Art
       Someone asked if it bothered me that sometimes people don’t like what I have written for the newspaper.  My answer is always the same:  Not at all. I know I have never sat down at the keyboard with the intention of irritating or angering anyone. I avoid being a propagandist and write what I believe is true. Read More…
  • Mike’s Musings: I’m a believer, pickleball offers fun for all ages
    I couldn’t help but read with a smile when Allegan columnist E.C. Stoppel posed a question to random people (in this week’s Allegan County News) as to whether they liked pickleball or not. Some younger people answered that it was an “old man’s sport” while several older respondents had not tried the game. I smiled Read More…
  • Rewa sets Saugatuck scoring record
    By Jason WesseldykSports EditorA record-setting effort from a freshman helped ensure Senior Night was successful for the Saugatuck girls soccer team on Thursday, May 18.Neave Rewa scored three times against Schoolcraft to give her a new single-season school record of 22 as the Trailblazers prevailed 6-0.Seniors Erin Moerler, Iris Kuipers and Mia Zerfas each scored Read More…
  • Blue Star
    By Scott SullivanEditor50th ReunionAs a diabetic, pokes and pricks-abetted, it’s imperative I have insulin. At the druggist’s I saw: Good healthIn a single stopSign up forShingles shots here The cute dark pharmacist on the cardboard sign next to the poem would prick me, then no shingles. If I signed up I might say tongue-tied, “I Read More…
  • Obituary: Deric Foderingham
    Of all the things England has exported, unquestionably Deric Foderingham was the best. From The New Forest in Hampshire, to Brantford, Canada, then Clearwater, Fla. and Douglas, Mich. He travelled. It was here in Douglas on a spectacular May morning that his journey ended most unexpectedly.   “Our Deric,” as some were wont to say, was Read More…
  • Community Pride Week fun June 1-4 welcomes all
    The fifth annual Community Pride Week based in downtown Douglas June 1-4 will celebrate our diverse community with fun events. Top sponsors include Biggby Coffee and the Saugauck-Douglas Area Convention & Visitors Bureau. Drag Bowling will kick off fun Thursday, June 1, at kicks off the events at Alleys Pizza at Lakeview Lanes from 6 Read More…
  • Douglas ‘Pyramid’ debuts Memorial Day
    Rado Kirov’s brightly-reflective stainless steel “Pyramid” (pictured) will be dedicated in its new home in front of the Douglas Police Station, 47 W. Center St., Monday, May 29, at 10:30 a.m. after the city’s Memorial Day parade. The hand-forged, highly- polished work, bought by the Maryjo Lemanski-led nonprofit from Water Street Gallery, will showcase the Read More…
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