By Jason WesseldykSports EditorThe 2023 season started on a high note for the Saugatuck girls soccer team.Playing host to Zion Christian, the Trialblazers dominated both sides of the field and came away with a 6-0 victory.“We controlled play throughout,” Saugatuck coach Jordan Campbell said.Jenn Schock led the Trailblazers’ offensive charge, scoring a pair of goals. Read More…
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Blue Star
By Scott SullivanEditorAwakeningsLawn Love has released this year’s click-bait poll ranking best and worst U.S. cities to have a hangover. Coming to dazed, dizzy and dehydrated in San Francisco beats Montgomery, Ala., respondents voted.Others preferred to enjoy D.T.’s and vomiting in Miami, New York City, Boston, Washington, D.C. and Chicago unable to focus on prices Read More…
Floating homes flap: city may be on hook
By Scott SullivanEditorAn Allegan County Circuit Court judge weighed in Thursday on the long-brewing Saugatuck vs. Dune Ridge floating homes lawsuits, indicating the city and past council members may be liable for damages.Judge Roberts Kengis made his preliminary views known on seven cross motions for summary dispositon, denying some, accepting others and continuing hearings on Read More…
Saugatuck pauses short-term rentals pause
By Scott SullivanEditorSaugatuck City Council last week put a pause on pausing new short-term rental applications.The planning commission voted 5-1 March 16 to recommend a nine-month freeze on processing new STR applications to buy time while a newly-named task force studies housing availability, conflicts with residents, character of neighborhoods, implications of restricting commerce, landowners’ rights Read More…
Life as Performance Art
A few years back I was starting to look for a new car. I pulled into a dealership that had some makes and models that caught my eye and had a good rating for reliability, safety, and sipping (rather than guzzling) gas. Within seconds, a salesman came jogging up to me, clapped his hands together and demanded, Read More…
Mike’s Musings: I’ve been a fool, how about you?
Editor’s Note: Because I’ve been laid up in a hospitalthe last couple of days (broke my hip) I pulled this oldy but goody columnfrom the vault. BY MIKE WILCOXPUBLISHER Saturday will be April Fools’ Day. It is also thebirthday of a good friend, actually her 80th. I can only imagine what it was like growing Read More…
Saugatuck girls soccer enters season with high hopes
By Jason WesseldykSports EditorThe good times continued to roll for Saugatuck girls soccer in 2022, as the Trailblazers claimed a district championship for the second straight season and finished with a 12-6-3 overall record.And with many key players back from that squad, Saugatuck coach Jordan Campbell is optimistic that the 2023 campaign will be more Read More…
Blue Star
By Scott SullivanEditorPit Bull Put Down“Allegiance” means a subordinate’s commitment to a superior individual, group or cause. It draws on the late Middle English liege, one who pays fealty to a lord, and appears often in Shakespeare’s writing. Shake a spear at the lord, in league perhaps, and what happens?Cervantes’ “Don Quixote” took lance against Read More…
Douglas Police No Groundhog month rerun, please
By Scott SullivanEditorDouglas police might as soon not live Groundhog’s Day month over. Chief Steve Kent told city council Monday the department in 28 days handled 157 total cases, all but five, backing up neighbor units, in city limits.Noteworthy incidents, Kent said, included:• Saturday Feb. 4: Officer Tony Brown pulled over vehicle speeding on Blue Read More…
Township brewery review on tap
By Scott SullivanEditorThe Saugatuck Township Planning Commission Tuesday revisited site plans for a proposed new brewery at 6525 Blue Star Hwy. The meeting fell after this week’s deadline.Saugatuck resident David Rodriguez, working with Holland Engineering, is proposing a brewery, restaurant and live-music venue on 3.06 C-1 Commercial acres between Ihle’s Auto Service and the 135th Read More…