By Jason WesseldykSports Editor OTSEGO—For the second year in a row, the Otsego boys swim & dive team claimed the Southwestern and Central Michigan Conference championship.Not that it was easy.The Bulldogs, who finished in three-way tie for first place with Plainwell and Marshall during the league’s regular season, edged out the archrival Trojans by a Read More…
Allegan County News & Union Enterprise
Obituary: Judy Ball
Judy Ball, 77, of Mancelona, Michigan passed away on 2/1/24 after a stroke.Judy was born on 8/28/1946 to Milton and Ellen Backofen in Charlotte Michigan. After Judy graduated from Charlotte High School in 1964 she continued her education at Western Michigan University as a music major. This is where she and Chuck Ball, a fellow Read More…
Obituary: Eleanor June Russell
Eleanor passed away, Saturday, February 24, 2024, at her home in Allegan. She was born April 8, 1922, in Allegan, the daughter of McKinley and Madeline (Anderson) Oisten. She was a Girl Scout for two years while in grade school. She loved school and liked her teachers, she received recognition for superior penmanship. Eleanor graduated Read More…
City discusses Hubbard Street parking lot, 4-day work weeks
By Gari Voss The City of Allegan Council spent time wrestling through the Study Session and Regular Council meeting balancing needs and opportunities related to special funding. As the Council heard the requests for addressing large improvement projects, examined the laundry list of project expenses, and the possible grant funding that would cover large portions Read More…
Only 980 residents take advantage of early voting
By John RaffelCorrespondent ALLEGAN – Voting in the presidential primary during the state’s firstventure into early voting yielded sparse participation in the county.“The low turnout set off alarm bells for the budgets of local governments that must staff polls with trained, paid workers during the early voting days,” Allegan County Commission chairman James Storey said. Read More…
Construction manager takes part in Hillside activities
Every once in a while, a community member steps up and becomes a integral part of a school. Steve McCaskey, a Project Superintendent for Owen, Ames, Kimball, has gone above and beyond his duties for the construction company and become part of the Hillside Learning Center family.Over the past year Hillside has undertaken a number Read More…
Group to address county’s lack of housing
Led by a coalition of non-profits and government entities including Allegan County Community Foundation, Community Action of Allegan County, Allegan Area ESA, United Way of Ottawa and Allegan County, OnPoint, and Allegan County government, Bowen National Research was commissioned to do a comprehensive housing assessment for Allegan County. The assessment report was published in the Read More…
Life as Performance Art
If you are a Republican, the Democrat next door is not your enemy, nor vice versa. If you are pro-life and your neighbor down the street supports Planned Parenthood, he or she is not your enemy. If you believe in enforcing gun laws, National Rifle Association members are not your enemy, nor are you theirs. And so on.As Read More…
Mike’s Musings: Sport allows me to leave my troubles behind
Today’s a great day. I have a cold now running on 8 days, my bank account is in the negative, and my ex-wife has called for the umpteenth time- and it hasn’t even reached noon on my wall clock.But hey I still have pickleball, a sport I began playing a year ago, and now play Read More…
Washington St. receives Literacy Leader Award
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor On Thursday, Feb. 15, the Grand Rapids-based organization TalentFirst announced the first recipients of its Literacy Leader AwardAnd Otsego Public Schools’ Washington Street Elementary was among the five West Michigan schools on the list.Joining Washington Street as honorees were Riverview Elementary in Big Rapids, Meadow Ridge Elementary in Rockford, Dutton Elementary Read More…