By Jason WesseldykSports EditorRollin’ along.That’s exactly what the Saugatuck girls basketball team is doing, as the Trailblazers ran their winning streak to seven with a 57-30 victory over Howardsville Christian on Monday, Feb. 5.Saugatuck improved to 12-1 overall.The Simpson sisters…

By Maggie ConklinChicken SimpleI bought four chicken thighs on sale and was at a loss how to cook them. It wasn’t enough to crank up the slow cooker, and I was tired of baked chicken.I didn’t find much in the…

By Scott SullivanEditorTransformersApple Vision Pro headsets now out usher in the age of “spatial computing,” the tech giant says.For $3,500 we can don goggles that let us experience “the intersection of the physical world around us and a virtual world…

By Scott SullivanEditorWhat’s new with 200 Blue Star Hwy., apart from the parcel that once housed Douglas’s largest private employer/taxpayer now marking 10 years vacant?City council met Monday with its Brownfield Redevelopment Authority to discuss contract planners’ latest conceptual design…

 My late friend George was a researcher.  If it interested him, and everything did, there was no subject too great or small for him not to devote considerable time and energy into looking into it in detail. A year or so…

By Scott Sullivan Editor The Saugatuck Township Fire District — which serves Douglas and Saugatuck cities in addition to the township — responded to 981 calls last year, down 4.1 percent from 2022’s record 1,023.  Among them, emergent (Priority 1…

By Scott Sullivan Editor The Saugatuck Township Fire District is exploring acquiring an estimated $201,273.52 Traffic Management Apparatus to ensure staff and public safety, especially during freeway crashes. Individual donations toward that end total $9,500 so far. “Since 2019,” chief…

By Scott Sullivan Editor Interurban director Phyllis Yff is retiring. The 10-year transit authority head announced her decisions last week thanking the community for its support and vowing to assist finding and helping establish her replacement. “This service,” Yff said…

By Jason WesseldykSports EditorIn the first half of its SAC contest against Gobles on Friday, Jan. 26, the Saugatuck girls basketball team played a smothering brand of defense.And the Trailblazers were even better in the second half.Saugatuck limited the Tigers…

Barbara King Paxson was a lifelong artist and a lover and maker of lyric beauty. Her life was one of service to human existence. She was a soul most tender and aware, a woman who endured bravely and often alone…

By Maggie ConklinIrish CreamRecently we had our annual “really bad winter” where we hunkered down and did anything we could to prevent going outside.This is what us Michiganders prepare for, why we can meals, fill the freezer with food, make…

By Scott SullivanEditorAll the FactsCats concern me. My wife and daughter surround me with three of them, plus two dogs, two bunnies, four birds and a fish the kitten tries to catch from outside its aquarium. What possible use could…

Laureen Ann Searing, 80, of Fennville, passed away on Jan. 17, 2024 at Corewell Health Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids.Laureen was born on Sept. 29, 1943 to the late Robert and Dorothy (Tallman) Millard of Mendon. She had an instinctive…

By Scott SullivanEditorInterurban director Phyllis Yff is retiring.The 10-year transit authority head announced her decisions last week thanking the community for its support and vowing to assist finding and helping establish her replacement.“This service,” Yff said in a letter to…

By Scott SullivanEditorThe Saugatuck Township Fire District is exploring acquiring an estimated $201,273.52 Traffic Management Apparatus to ensure staff and public safety, especially during freeway crashes. Individual donations toward that end total $9,500 so far.“Since 2019,” chief Greg Janik has…

By Scott SullivanEditorThe Saugatuck Township Fire District — which serves Douglas and Saugatuck cities in addition to the township — responded to 981 calls last year, down 4.1 percent from 2022’s record 1,023.Among them, emergent (Priority 1 or 2, involving…

 “America is an exceptional country,” Alexis de Tocqueville wrote after touring the still-young nation in the 1830s. Compared to his native France and other nations in Europe, he found an energy and vibrancy here that provided great opportunities for growth and…

The Saugatuck-Douglas Area Convention and Visitors Bureau has hired long-time Saugatuck resident April Gundy as event coordinator. Her first day was Jan. 10. Gundy, a personal trainer and fitness instructor who owns Encompass Wellness Fitness Center in Douglas, will oversee…

By Scott Sullivan Editor The Saugatuck-Douglas Area Business Association is essentially no more. Formed May 18, 1987 as the domestic nonprofit corporation Saugatuck Retail Association, the business-member group for almost two generations worked to promote the climate here for retail…

By Scott Sullivan Editor DES stands for Douglas Elementary School and design as well after last week’s announcement building renovations completed last year have won an Outstanding Design Award from American School and University. Project designer GMB and builder GDK…