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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…
‘Is it real?’ classics investors asks
BY 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…
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.…
Fed OKs $895K to dredge channel here
By 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…
Saugatuck grants manager 10-percent raise, praise
By 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…
Saugatuck boys fall, Fennville prevails in district play
By 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…
Life as Performance Art
We see labels everywhere. If we go into a grocery store we for labels so we know whether we are buying canned peaches or canned mystery meat. Sometimes we read and compare labels of the ingredients to make certain we are eating…
Mike’s Musings: History tells us money, weaponry will not help Ukraine
Why are we still supplying Ukraine with taxpayer money and weapons? Wouldn’t the hundreds of billions of dollars we have sent to fight the proxy war against Russia, be put to better use at home? I certainly think so.We have…
Ice storm fells limbs, more
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR Last week’s ice storm created skaters’ waltz conditions for homes, schools and offices, causing multi-day closures, power outages, trees down and roadway slide-offs. From 10 p.m. to 11 a.m. late Wednesday through Thursday morning, Feb. 22-23,…
Back to Refugia: how to Heal
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR Calvin College English professor and “Refugia Faith” author Deb Reinstra has lent herself to Lent observations at All Saints’ Episcopal Church at Hoffman and Grant streets, Saugatuck. Reinstra, who knows woods and waters here through her…
Blue Star
By Scott SullivanEditorSo CalledAmazon ad affiliate Lavatory Lab ranks Michigan public bathrooms “Among America’s Worst!” — 20th of 50 states for rankest. What Jeff Bezos paid PoopCo for online opinion poll data: priceless.Bottom of the bowl: Wyoming scored 3.5 out…
Back to Refugia topic here March 11
By Scott SullivanEditorCalvin College English professor and “Refugia Faith” author Deb Reinstra has lent herself to Lent observations at All Saints’ Episcopal Church at Hoffman and Grant streets, Saugatuck.Reinstra, who knows woods and waters here through her in-laws’ home on…
Ice storm fells limbs, more
By Scott SullivanEditorLast week’s ice storm created skaters’ waltz conditions for homes, schools and offices, causing multi-day closures, power outages, trees down and roadway slide-offs.From 10 p.m. to 11 a.m. late Wednesday through Thursday morning, Feb. 22-23, the Saugatuck Township…
Saugatuck girls overcome slow start to prevail
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor HOLLAND—It would be fair to say the girls basketball game between Saugatuck and Holland Black River didn’t start exactly the way Trailblazers coach Kevin Tringali had been hoping.Saugatuck fell behind 7-2 and one quarter and were…
Mike’s Musings: DAZED and CONFUSED, or JUST GROWING OLD
Growing can be a real pain, sometimes. What you once remembered with ease, you now forget.Case in point occurred last weekend. My significant other and I had booked a concert at a smallish auditorium back in December. It was sure…
Life as Performance Art
For a number of years, we have been seeing news reports about our southern borders. Unfortunately, we have overlooked the fact that we also have a northern border with Canada. It’s easy to forget about it because, with the exception of a…
Water, water not everywhere, youths know
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR Saugatuck-Douglas doesn’t lack water resources. Nor fluid and fluent thinkers. Among younger ones, 18 Saugatuck High School Advanced Placement English students Feb. 1 entered the Grand Rapids Economic Club’s 2022-23 High School Essay Contest about a…
Help Saugatuck tackle short-term rentals
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR Saugatuck seeks eight citizens to advise the city on how better to deal with the longstanding issue of short-term rentals. The advisory task force will be asked to prioritize current concerns, issues, opportunities and objectives held…
Learn about Saugatuck police March 6
Residents and business owners are invited to learn more about policing in Saugatuck Monday, March 6, in Saugatuck High School, 401 Elizabeth St., from 6 to 7:30 p.m. City council members and Saugatuck Public Schools parents Lauren Stanton will join…
Blue Star
By Scott SullivanEditorBird Flu“How worried should we be about bird flu?” the teaser read. I’m worried my wife’s birds won’t fly away. Squawking, gobbling seeds, crapping … It’s like being in a Hitchcock movie.Safe to live again without masks and…
