The first thing most people noticed about Lydia Fish (nee Mihleisen), bides from her accent, was the twinkle in her blue eyes and “I’m up to something” grin. In the seven years she lived in her old blue farmhouse with beautiful gardens on the hill in Saugatuck, she always was. From fierce competitor on pickleball Read More…
Sharon (Sherry) Elaine Koehler Edris died at age 76. Sherry was born in Herington, Kansas. She graduated from Herington High School in 1964 as a member of the National Honor Society. She attended Brown-Mackie School of Business in Salina, Kansas and received an Executive Secretary honor diploma. Sherry worked in Wichita, Kansas at the Fourth Read More…
I’ve always had a healthy distrust of government. From the time as a college student working in the U.S. Capitol and state legislature, I have felt that many of our politicians are there to enhance themselves and not the public they represent.Two more disgraced politicians hit the news last week. I would bet they represent Read More…
“Don’t forget where you came from,” Father used to admonish my sister and me going out the door. In time I figured out it meant more than the house number where we lived, just remember to bring honor, shame to our family name.Revisionist history can be a good thing; it makes room for truth. For Read More…
By Maggie ConklinEasy Stuffed DuckThe family story goes one long-ago night my parents were eating at a fine restaurant with some Dad’s business customers, Mom’s cousin Bob and lifelong friend Margaret.Mom Milley lectured Bob all afternoon long about how to speak and act in polite society, without cuss words, proper conversation topics.Things started well with Read More…
By Scott SullivanEditorSaddling UpHe saddled up to the bar and gritted through rotted cuspids, bicuspids, incisors …“Aren’t you s’posed to sidle?” asked Zeke the Barkeep.“Buck you,” he spat through his bridge, spitting bloody Chiclets square into bullseyes of 12 dartboards. “I’m up for a ride. Whiskey.”“You want, I got.”“I don’t always drink risky, but when Read More…
By Scott SullivanEditorLast rites may loom for the historic Reiss tugboat when, per a classified listing last week, current owner Steve Horn hopes to sell it for scrap, cash only, Oct. 3Built in 1913 the tug, then named the Q.A. Gillmore after a Civil War Union general, served maritime traffic in and near Cleveland’s Lake Read More…
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor SAUGATUCK—On paper, the SAC crossover football game pitting host Saugatuck against visiting Coloma looked like a mismatch.After all, the Trailblazers entered the game at 4-0, while the Comets were 0-4.And it quickly became apparent that this was one case in which looks were not deceiving.Saugatuck scored early and often, building leads Read More…
Mike “Dirty Jobs” Rowe wrote about work, “What’s happening now in this country that scares me to the core fundamentally is we have never had so much unrealized opportunity and little enthusiasm for it.”Since before European settlement America has been seen as a land of opportunity, new beginning, where people could work to create a Read More…
A few days ago, a story popped up on my computer screen entitled Michigan police rescue woman trapped in outhouse. It piqued my curiosity because the article proclaimed it happened in Otsego, MI, where we publish the Union Enterprise. After further review I discerned it was actually Otsego County, Mi, but not to take away Read More…