By Jim Hayden Correspondent Hear ye! Hear ye! The Saugatuck Town Crier declares view Aug. 10 from the top of the Mackinac Bridge as spectacular! Art Tolsma, a 6’6” roofing business head and winner of a Felt Estate fundraising raffle in December for two tickets to travel and climb there, looked out on a clear Read More…
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Football Review
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 the Trailblazers better this season.“Yes, we had losing season a year ago,” he said. “But Read More…
Maggie’s Pantry
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 in Alaska again dragging along another couple to keep us company, occupied and entertained.Maria, homesteader Read More…
Blue Star
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 anarchic orders. Clicks are open, let in light; cliques are closed. Therein lies the rub.Saugatuck’s Read More…
Eight ex-mayors walk into a bar …
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, Mark Bekken, Ken Trester, Catherine Simon, Chris Peterson, Jane Verplank and Bill Hesse. (Photo by Read More…
Ex-Mayor pleads guilty to election charge
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 $500 fine plus $325 in court costs payable over six months, at which point further Read More…
Life as Performance Art
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 political, in his papers it’s clear volunteer battalions make small towns tick. These people give Read More…
Mike’s Musings: Raid on newspaper office tramples first amendment rights
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 that it had taken place.After calling around I was able to discern that the Marion Read More…
Maggie’s Pantry
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 nothing but sweet corn from the local farm market for dinner, then another ear for Read More…
Blue Star
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 none in this matter.“What matters?”Ahead, I said. BackAugust 1968, bedroom windows with Indiana woods views, Read More…