By Jason WesseldykSports EditorThe 2022 season included its share of challenges for the Saugatuck football team, which finished with a 3-6 record that included two forfeit losses due to injuries.Longtime Saugatuck coach Bill Dunn believes those struggles will only make…

By Maggie ConklinTravel Cooking HacksOne of many things that make a good artist or cook great is the ability and desire to never stop learning. New and updated information matters.My dear husband and I have found ourselves on an island…

By Scott SullivanEditorLight ShowClick goes camera, clique goes government, difference being shutter’s open a split second. Light passes through lens optics, body sensors articulate and transmit millions of color data points. When glass closes your mind sets up more art…

Eight former Saugatuck mayors convened after Nov. 16 after last year’s election to regale each other with laughs and memories at The Sand Bar on Butler Street not far from city hall. Shown (from left) are Russ Gardner, Barry Johnson,…

By Scott SullivanEditorSaugatuck City Council member Garnet Lewis pleaded guilty via Zoom Friday before Allegan County 57th District Judge Joseph Skocelas to misdemeanor state election charges of gathering candidate petition signatures without reporting she was the circulator.Lewis agreed to a…

I commend publisher Mike Wilcox for keeping Michigan Newspaper Association plaques and awards gathered under past publishers Cheryl and Walt Kaechele in Allegan County News offices. It is good to appreciate others’ work.If you read articles, unless strictly business or…

I received a phone call a couple days ago about the Marion MI newspaper office having been raided by police. Being the owner, I was a bit perplexed, because I knew of no such raid. The caller, however, was adamant…

By Maggie ConklinCorn ElevationI can think of few things more delicious than fresh sweet corn, picked that morning, simmered as little as four minutes, but I like seven minutes, and slathered in real butter and salt.Once a year we have…

By Scott SullivanEditorA Head“Truth has consequences,” my shrink said. “Think a head.”Ahead?“In your head.”Where you’re crazy.“Argumentative,” she jotted.I mean the future, I said. Not what agitates all you see, hear, smell, taste, cogitate …“Don’t forget ‘say’ from your mouth.”You have…

By Scott SullivanEditorDouglas City Council Monday OK’d buying the now largely-empty “old hospital” property at 415 Wiley Road east of Blue Star Highway for $1.5 million eyeing in the next 2 to 5 years consolidating municipal services on that site.The…

By Scott SullivanEditorDouglas City Council, apprised July 24 fourth-year city manager Rich Labombard would resign effective Aug. 25, has wasted little time seeking at least an interim successor.Members Aug. 3 interviewed interim candidate Susan Montenegro (shown at left) and learned…

    I am delighted to see that some of our elected officials have decided to spend at least part of their summer vacation time holding hearings to investigate UFOs – Unidentified Flying Objects. They are hard at work, and I appreciate…

More and more I am told I must provide anything of importance digitally. Heck my Facebook feed is crowded with people purportedly able to make my life easier with the new A! Technology. That’s why when it comes to voting…

By Scott Sullivan Editor Rich LaBombard is out after four years as Douglas city manager. He emailed council July 24 he was resigning effective Aug. 25, and members accepted it Monday, first day after veteran clerk Pam Aalderink retired, turning…

Love history and architecture? A free lecture by historian Paul Trap Wednesday, Aug. 9 at 7 p.m. will deal with “The Five Little Wood Churches” created by celebrated Michigan architect Gordon W. Lloyd at one of them, All Saints’ Episcopal…

Rebecca Crane, whose family knows something or two about apples, will share stories from Fennville’s own “clock watchers” at a dedication for Kalamazoo artist Richard Light’s “Clock V” bronze sculpture in Hutchinson Park adjacent to clock tower and U.S. Post…

John-Kevin (JK) Hilbert is new Lakeshore Community Chorus artistic director, succeeding retired ensemble co-founder Nancy Plantinga. “There is no greater experience on earth than singing with other voices in a chorus, creating beautiful unisons and glorious harmonies,” says the new…

Shirley Meyer, 82 The sons of Shirley Faye Meyer announce her passing on July 20, 2023 in Holland, Mich.  Shirley was born on May 17, 1941, in the small town of Des Arc, Ark. — the daughter of cotton sharecroppers…

By Maggie ConklinMushroom FarmerLast year the dear husband and I were gifted “leftover” shiitake mushroom spoors from a friend in Alabama.It took us a couple days to drive home and we tried our best to keep the spoors cold in…

By Scott SullivanEditorBreathSaw it roll in from the north Tuesday over Kal River; Canada was still burning. Last month wildfire smoke hazing lungs and views was a novelty. The Star of Saugatuck was eclipsing Serenity on the Lake Michigan horizon,…