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Douglas deer uptick: What should city do?
By Scott SullivanEditorJust when you thought it was safe to go back to Douglas, the city has released results of a deer survey showing Bambis have some residents bamboozled.Questionnaires sent 1,360 residents on winter tax bills and returned by 175,…
Life as Performance Art
Perhaps you remember the 1948 film, A Song is Born, starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo. The plot is simple: A group of elderly scholars had been commissioned to write the definitive history of music. For nine years they had toiled away, cutting…
Mike’s Musings: Release January 6 tapes, Epstein list
Our government seems to enjoy keeping sensitive information from you and I, even though we pay their salaries and place them in the positions they are in. I believe the people have a right to know. It is not up…
Saugatuck eyes major street repairs
By Scott Sullivan Editor Saugatuck City Council Monday approved $22,600 in engineering services towards an estimated $400,000 crushing and shaping with drainage repairs this fall to Taylor, Takken, East and West streets between Allegan and Mason streets. The good news:…
Saugatuck loses to Martin as comeback bid falls short
By Jason WesseldykSports EditorSaugatuck sophomore Kennedy Gustafson was a force to be reckoned with during the SAC Central girls basketball game against visiting Martin on Friday, Feb. 10, scoring a game-best 18 points.Eight of those points came in the fourth…
Blue Star
By Scott SullivanEditorWaiting for GaudreauMonty Python met adventures seeking the Holy Grail, but none like I have pursuing perfection.My frustration meeting a standard that can’t exist — If no human is perfect, how can a human know what perfect is?…
Stolen car chase ends in crash
By Scott SullivanEditorA car stolen near Traverse City saw its journey end Feb. 5 in a crash south of Douglas, landing both occupants in hospitals.Neither name as of press time had been released.Douglas police officer Tony Brown spotted a vehicle…
Saugatuck holds off pesky Clippers to collect victory
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor SAUGATUCK—Junior Russell VandePoel was one of several members of the Saugatuck boys basketball team who had been battling sickness as the Trailblazers prepared for its SAC Central game with Martin on Friday, Feb. 10.But that didn’t…
Life as Performance Art
The other morning a couple of talking heads on a television program were discussing the current state of affairs in the country, and one of them said that she still believed America was an exceptional country. The other, a bit…
Mike’s Musings: You don’t know pain until you’ve been in dentist chair for four hours
I have a high tolerance for pain. Separate a shoulder, strain my Achille’s tendon, chronic back pain, etc. I’ve done it and had it, but none of those compare to the pain created by a dentist drilling on your teeth.Last…
Life as Performance Art
By G.C. Stoppel “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” are Declaration of Independence keystones.Life is good, but no if it means I spend the last months or years in great pain, immobilized and mind away with the fairies. Liberty is…
Blue Star
By Scott SullivanEditorKnow BodyNo Nordic day’s complete without a dip ringed by icebergs, glaciers, stone faces … dash inside for a sauna with thawing mermaids. I was a hemisphere away, joining Ron and Maggie Conklin imagining conquering the South Pole,…
Obituary: Brian Perry, 53
Brian Perry passed from this world on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023. He was surrounded by love. Brian valued his family more than anything. He cherished his nieces and nephews and was loved deeply by each of them. Brian was dedicated to…
Obituary: George Corsiglia, 87
George Richard Corsiglia, age 87, of the Saugatuck-Douglas area, passed away on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023 at the Clark Home in Grand Rapids, after a two-year period of failing health.He is survived by his wife of 40 years, Sandra “Sandy,”…
Further scrutinize Barker plan, city told
By Scott SullivanEditorDavid Barker’s proposed 90-unit Forest Gate Condominiums on 16 acres at 485 Ferry St. north of Northern Lights Condominiums will be up for a Douglas Planning Commission public hearing Thursday, Feb. 9, starting in city hall at 7…
Saugatuck boys post win over archrival Fennville
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor SAUGATUCK—It’s been a while since the Saugatuck boys basketball team secured a win over archrival Fennville.Nearly six years, to be exact.But that changed on Monday, Feb. 6, as the Trailblazers hosted the Blackhawks and came away…
Mike’s Musings: Trade deficit with China continues to grow
Not too long ago on the occasion of my birthday, I was presented with a balloon, as well as other gifts. Unfortunately, the balloon did not last long. It escaped out the door wall and headed to the skies. My…
Saugatuck boys claim fourth straight victory
By Jason WesseldykSports EditorHARTFORD—The winning ways continued for the Saugatuck boys basketball team when they traveled to Hartford for a non-conference clash on Tuesday, Jan. 24.The Trailblazers built a nine-point halftime lead and extended that in the second half en…
Obituary: Thomas Richard Lyons, 89
Thomas Richard Lyons, age 89, died on January 27, 2023, in St. Charles, Illinois.Thomas, or Dick as he was known to friends and family, was born on February 4, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York, the only child of Thomas and…
