Friends of the Blue Star Trail will roll into their annual “A Toast to the Blue Star Trail” funder Monday, June 26 at Inisfree Estate in Pullman with progress to celebrate. Guests can raise a glass towards winning conditional approval for $1.3-million and $300,000 state grants last year towards completing the recreational trail’s northern section Read More…
By Jason WesseldykSports EditorGRAND RAPIDS—With two weeks between track regionals and the state finals, the annual Distance Under the Lights meet at Houseman Field has become a popular event for many runners in the area.The meet takes place the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend—one week after regionals and one week before the finals—and features the Read More…
Janet Ellen Tomlinson passed away quietly and comfortably on May 22, 2023 at Douglas Cove in Douglas.She was born on Aug. 20, 1939 in Muskegon to Mary and Raymond L. McKamy. Janet is survived by her daughter Christy Tomlinson and her sisters Marjorie Virdin and Anne and Charles Krecke. In addition to her parents, she Read More…
By Scott SullivanEditor50th Reunion, Part 2It was assuring knowing I would die lacking nothing. The nurse and druggist had denied me insulin. Blood sugar played Bach’s Toccata and Fugue on my organs.“I’d considered going,” I said.“To your 50th reunion?” asked neither.“It was over before it started.”I had clicked an invite link to a video of Read More…
Someone asked if it bothered me that sometimes people don’t like what I have written for the newspaper. My answer is always the same: Not at all. I know I have never sat down at the keyboard with the intention of irritating or angering anyone. I avoid being a propagandist and write what I believe is true. Read More…
I couldn’t help but read with a smile when Allegan columnist E.C. Stoppel posed a question to random people (in this week’s Allegan County News) as to whether they liked pickleball or not. Some younger people answered that it was an “old man’s sport” while several older respondents had not tried the game. I smiled Read More…
By Jason WesseldykSports EditorA record-setting effort from a freshman helped ensure Senior Night was successful for the Saugatuck girls soccer team on Thursday, May 18.Neave Rewa scored three times against Schoolcraft to give her a new single-season school record of 22 as the Trailblazers prevailed 6-0.Seniors Erin Moerler, Iris Kuipers and Mia Zerfas each scored Read More…
By Scott SullivanEditor50th ReunionAs a diabetic, pokes and pricks-abetted, it’s imperative I have insulin. At the druggist’s I saw: Good healthIn a single stopSign up forShingles shots here The cute dark pharmacist on the cardboard sign next to the poem would prick me, then no shingles. If I signed up I might say tongue-tied, “I Read More…
Of all the things England has exported, unquestionably Deric Foderingham was the best. From The New Forest in Hampshire, to Brantford, Canada, then Clearwater, Fla. and Douglas, Mich. He travelled. It was here in Douglas on a spectacular May morning that his journey ended most unexpectedly. “Our Deric,” as some were wont to say, was Read More…
The fifth annual Community Pride Week based in downtown Douglas June 1-4 will celebrate our diverse community with fun events. Top sponsors include Biggby Coffee and the Saugauck-Douglas Area Convention & Visitors Bureau. Drag Bowling will kick off fun Thursday, June 1, at kicks off the events at Alleys Pizza at Lakeview Lanes from 6 Read More…