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CVB helps pick up SDABA slack

By Scott Sullivan Editor The Saugatuck-Douglas Area Business Association is essentially no more. Formed May 18, 1987 as the domestic nonprofit corporation Saugatuck Retail Association, the business-member group for almost two generations worked to promote the climate here for retail merchants while sponsoring events drawing customers to downtown areas. Last summer’s Wednesday-night Saugatuck Music in Read More…

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DES work wins design award

By Scott Sullivan Editor DES stands for Douglas Elementary School and design as well after last week’s announcement building renovations completed last year have won an Outstanding Design Award from American School and University. Project designer GMB and builder GDK Construction Co. was honored in AS&U’s 2023 Architectural Portfolio publication, for 41 years released in Read More…

Saugatuck/Douglas Commercial Record Sports

Saugatuck boys run winning streak to seven

By Jason WesseldykSports EditorBased on the first quarter, it appeared as though the boys basketball game between Saugatuck and visiting Delton on Thursday, Jan. 11, was destined to be a back-and-forth battle throughout.But as is so often the case, appearances were deceiving.The Trailblazers used a 19-4 edge in the second stanza to take command and Read More…

Columns Saugatuck/Douglas Commercial Record

Maggie’s Pantry

By Maggie ConklinPeanut ButterCookiesDuring the Gulf War quite a few years ago, my friend Robin Sullivan and I made chocolate chip and peanut butter cookies, then mailed them to a couple Boyce boys who were serving overseas. We vacuum-sealed, lovingly boxed and mailed them a strange-sounding armed services address.A month or so later we received Read More…

Columns Saugatuck/Douglas Commercial Record

Blue Star

By Scott SullivanEditorWormholeBBC Sky at Night speculated last week about wormholes, space-time portals between dimensions. We pass through these between Saugatuck, Douglas and reality each day.My favorite is on board an Interurban bus. Step up, a door wheezes shut and gravity spits you out through its vortex, the Blue Star Bridge.The BBC says a Chinese Read More…

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Soldier-lawyer takes alternate way home

By Scott SullivanEditorThe long road home for Auston Marineau leads through four colleges, three army deployments to the Middle East over seven years, an impending legal clerkship for Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Elizabeth Clement and back to Saugatuck, this time with his optometrist wife, again.“I found my grandpa’s World War II memorabilia in a Read More…

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DES design wins national award

By Scott SullivanEditorDES stands for Douglas Elementary School and design as well after last week’s announcement building renovations completed last year have won an Outstanding Design Award from American School and University.Project designer GMB and builder GDK Construction Co. was honored in AS&U’s 2023 Architectural Portfolio publication, for 41 years released in cooperation with the Read More…

Allegan County News & Union Enterprise News

Fashion show benefits Sylvia’s Place

By Jason WesseldykSports Editor What’s better than a fashion show?A fashion show that raises money for a good cause, of course.And The Rabbit Boutiques—located at 118 E. Bridge St. in downtown Plainwell—is hosted just such an event with its 2024 Fashion Show on Thursday, Jan. 25.One hundred percent of the proceeds from the show, which Read More…

Allegan County News & Union Enterprise News

Dix St. celebrates Law Enforcement Appreciation Day

By Jason WesseldykSports Editor Students and staff members at Dix Street Elementary in Otsego welcomed some special guests to the school on Thursday, Jan. 11.As part of Dix Street’s third annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Day ceremony, five police officers took part in a celebration at the start of the school day.The event had originally been Read More…

Allegan County News & Union Enterprise News

Ernstes fills vacancy on OPS Board of Education

By Jason WesseldykSports Editor January is School Board Recognition Month in Michigan.It seems only fitting, then, that Otsego Public Schools should welcome its newest board member during this month.Scott “Rusty” Ernstes was appointed to the OPS Board of Education on Wednesday, Jan. 10, to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of trustee Brian Ouellette.Ernstes Read More…