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- Saugatuck girls soccer enters season with high hopesBy Jason WesseldykSports EditorThe good times continued to roll for Saugatuck girls soccer in 2022, as the Trailblazers claimed a district championship for the second straight season and finished with a 12-6-3 overall record.And with many key players back from that squad, Saugatuck coach Jordan Campbell is optimistic that the 2023 campaign will be more Read More…
- Blue Star
By Scott SullivanEditorPit Bull Put Down“Allegiance” means a subordinate’s commitment to a superior individual, group or cause. It draws on the late Middle English liege, one who pays fealty to a lord, and appears often in Shakespeare’s writing. Shake a spear at the lord, in league perhaps, and what happens?Cervantes’ “Don Quixote” took lance against Read More… - Douglas Police No Groundhog month rerun, pleaseBy Scott SullivanEditorDouglas police might as soon not live Groundhog’s Day month over. Chief Steve Kent told city council Monday the department in 28 days handled 157 total cases, all but five, backing up neighbor units, in city limits.Noteworthy incidents, Kent said, included:• Saturday Feb. 4: Officer Tony Brown pulled over vehicle speeding on Blue Read More…
- Township brewery review on tapBy Scott SullivanEditorThe Saugatuck Township Planning Commission Tuesday revisited site plans for a proposed new brewery at 6525 Blue Star Hwy. The meeting fell after this week’s deadline.Saugatuck resident David Rodriguez, working with Holland Engineering, is proposing a brewery, restaurant and live-music venue on 3.06 C-1 Commercial acres between Ihle’s Auto Service and the 135th Read More…
- Life as Performance Art
I knew there had been a radical shift in the universe the day I was walking down the street and three women were coming in my direction. They were not talking with each other. Rather, all of them were on their flip phones talking to someone else. They were not experiencing the moment together, perhaps creating memories Read More… - Should city pause short-term rentals?BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR Should Saugatuck pause acting on short-term rental applications while the city studies reforming current standards? The planning commission will consider doing so at its Thursday, March 16 meeting in city hall at 7 p.m. The city last month created a short-term rental task force to research the issue and develop recommendations for council Read More…
- Saugatuck keeps county cops BusyBY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR Since assuming Saugatuck city policing from a department formerly shared with Douglas July 1, 2018, Allegan County Sheriff’s deputies have been busy here. At a March 6 open house co-sponsored by the department with city council members Russ Gardner and Lauren Stanton, police welcomed guests and shared information about Saugatuck public Read More…
- Trailblazers’ season ends
By Jason WesseldykSports EditorSHELBY—For the record, the Saugatuck girls basketball team dropped its Division 3 regional semifinal against Kent City on Tuesday, March 7, by a score of 66-32.That, however, isn’t what Trailblazers coach Kevin Tringali will remember about this season.Rather, he’ll remember that his squad played in the program’s first regional contest in 19 Read More… - Obituary: Molly Baker, 93
Molly Angela Baker, 92, of Saugatuck and Key Largo, Fla. passed away on March 5, 2023.Molly was born on May 6, 1930 to Marion and Angela Buttles in Zeeland. She and Mary were the first twins born in Zeeland Hospital. After graduating from Holland High School, then Hope College, she taught school before raising her Read More… - Obituary: Mary Lyons, 89
Mary Lyons, nee Devine, age 89, died on March 3, 2023, in Geneva, Ill.Mary was born on July 27, 1933, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the second child of Joseph and Mary Devine. On Dec 29, 1956, she married Thomas Richard Lyons. She attended St. John’s University in Queens, N.Y., working toward a degree in business.Mary and Read More… - Blue Star
By Scott SullivanEditorGoRed means stop, green go, yellow caution. Primary color blue + yellow = green: go with caution. Blue means go.Having shot black-and- white Kodak Tri-X 400, I went color 15 years later with trepidation. What would Cartier-Bresson say? I’d developed, printed and cropped my images for layouts long ago.Going color film to digital Read More… - Saugatuck city keeps county cops busyBy Scott SullivanEditorSince assuming Saugatuck city policing from a department formerly shared with Douglas July 1, 2018, Allegan County Sheriff’s deputies have been busy here.At a March 6 open house co-sponsored by the department with city council members Russ Gardner and Lauren Stanton, police welcomed guests and shared information about Saugatuck public safety since then Read More…
- Erin Go Bark to go Douglas SaturdayBy Scott SullivanEditorThe area’s traditional Erin Go Bark St. Patrick’s Day People and Pet Parade will continue this year in Douglas.Lakeshore Boutique owner and city council member Randy Walker won council approval March 6 to hold the event this Saturday, March 18, from noon to 1 p.m.Walker estimates 50 attendees, perhaps more than one green-clad, Read More…
- Life as Performance Art
We received a Christmas card and letter from longtime friends, and in it they wrote about returning to Orchestra Hall for the first performance by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in nearly two years. At the end of the evening the director, Maestro Ricardo Muti, came on stage to speak briefly with the audience. It was his observation Read More… - Mike’s Musings: Banning Djokovic makes no sense
I play a lot of tennis, and Novak Djokovic, the best in the game, and maybe the G.O.A.T, is a hero of mine. Like Jordan in basketball or Brady in football, Djokovic has dominated men’s tennis for a decade and has helped immensely to popularize the sport.Because he refuses to take a vaccine for COVID, Read More… - ‘Is it real?’ classics investors asksBY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR What is real? Say you’re 17, early ‘60s, Beatlemania breaking. With three high school Chicago friends, you form a band, pay Chess Records to make a demo and try to sell it. “We sound just like The Beatles,” you tell the producer, desk behind framed by stacks of black vinyl disks, Read More…
- Blue Star
By Scott SullivanEditorWhere’s the Porn?God bless free speech. Without it censors would enslave us; with it we get letters to the editor such as Melanie Kurdyz of Plainwell wrote last week to the Allegan County News last.She corrects columnist G.C. Stoppel saying the issue isn’t book-burning but pornography-burning; look up bookslook.org for examples. Google said Read More… - Fed OKs $895K to dredge channel hereBy Scott SullivanEditorThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to appropriate $895,000 to this spring dredge the Kalamazoo River federal channel from Saugatuck’s Coral Gables north and west to Lake Michigan. (See map at lower right.)Federal work, last performed here in spring 2019, provides for an entrance channel between piers and revetments 200 feet Read More…
- Saugatuck grants manager 10-percent raise, praiseBy Scott SullivanEditorSaugatuck City Council Feb. 27 unanimously approved a $10,500 pay increase for City Manager Ryan Heise, bringing him to $110,500 yearly.The 10-percent hike following council’s review of third-year manager’s 2022 job performance. Members based it on 10 key metrics including customer service, organization, financial management, planning, leadership and communication.Heise also provided his own Read More…
- Saugatuck boys fall, Fennville prevails in district playBy Jason WesseldykSports Editor FENNVILLE—The season has come to a close for Saugatuck boys basketball team.Taking on Wyoming Potter’s House in the opening round of the Division 3 district hosted by Fennville, the Trailblazers fell behind 49-18 at halftime and ultimately lost by a 78-39 final score.Saugatuck finished the season at 14-9. That marked its Read More…