We received a Christmas card and letter from longtime friends, and in it they wrote about returning to Orchestra Hall for the first performance by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in nearly two years. At the end of the evening the director, Maestro Ricardo Muti, came on stage to speak briefly with the audience. It was his observation Read More…
I play a lot of tennis, and Novak Djokovic, the best in the game, and maybe the G.O.A.T, is a hero of mine. Like Jordan in basketball or Brady in football, Djokovic has dominated men’s tennis for a decade and has helped immensely to popularize the sport.Because he refuses to take a vaccine for COVID, Read More…
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR What is real? Say you’re 17, early ‘60s, Beatlemania breaking. With three high school Chicago friends, you form a band, pay Chess Records to make a demo and try to sell it. “We sound just like The Beatles,” you tell the producer, desk behind framed by stacks of black vinyl disks, Read More…
By Scott SullivanEditorWhere’s the Porn?God bless free speech. Without it censors would enslave us; with it we get letters to the editor such as Melanie Kurdyz of Plainwell wrote last week to the Allegan County News last.She corrects columnist G.C. Stoppel saying the issue isn’t book-burning but pornography-burning; look up bookslook.org for examples. Google said Read More…
By Scott SullivanEditorThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to appropriate $895,000 to this spring dredge the Kalamazoo River federal channel from Saugatuck’s Coral Gables north and west to Lake Michigan. (See map at lower right.)Federal work, last performed here in spring 2019, provides for an entrance channel between piers and revetments 200 feet Read More…
By Scott SullivanEditorSaugatuck City Council Feb. 27 unanimously approved a $10,500 pay increase for City Manager Ryan Heise, bringing him to $110,500 yearly.The 10-percent hike following council’s review of third-year manager’s 2022 job performance. Members based it on 10 key metrics including customer service, organization, financial management, planning, leadership and communication.Heise also provided his own Read More…
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor FENNVILLE—The season has come to a close for Saugatuck boys basketball team.Taking on Wyoming Potter’s House in the opening round of the Division 3 district hosted by Fennville, the Trailblazers fell behind 49-18 at halftime and ultimately lost by a 78-39 final score.Saugatuck finished the season at 14-9. That marked its Read More…
We see labels everywhere. If we go into a grocery store we for labels so we know whether we are buying canned peaches or canned mystery meat. Sometimes we read and compare labels of the ingredients to make certain we are eating something healthy. We want a label on a new shirt to let us know the Read More…
Why are we still supplying Ukraine with taxpayer money and weapons? Wouldn’t the hundreds of billions of dollars we have sent to fight the proxy war against Russia, be put to better use at home? I certainly think so.We have been told by our leaders for over 70 years that we must enter in to Read More…
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR Last week’s ice storm created skaters’ waltz conditions for homes, schools and offices, causing multi-day closures, power outages, trees down and roadway slide-offs. From 10 p.m. to 11 a.m. late Wednesday through Thursday morning, Feb. 22-23, the Saugatuck Township Fire District answered nine service calls, reported IT Director Erik Kirchert. No. Read More…