By Scott SullivanEditorBird Flu“How worried should we be about bird flu?” the teaser read. I’m worried my wife’s birds won’t fly away. Squawking, gobbling seeds, crapping … It’s like being in a Hitchcock movie.Safe to live again without masks and shots, except those from firearms? The STAT website warns avian influenza may be even more Read More…
By Scott SullivanEditorJust when you thought it was safe to go back to Douglas, the city has released results of a deer survey showing Bambis have some residents bamboozled.Questionnaires sent 1,360 residents on winter tax bills and returned by 175, 13 percent, by the Valentine’s Day deadline showed deer, seen often within city limits, cause Read More…
Perhaps you remember the 1948 film, A Song is Born, starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo. The plot is simple: A group of elderly scholars had been commissioned to write the definitive history of music. For nine years they had toiled away, cutting themselves off from the rest of the world. Then one evening Danny “Professor Frisbee” Kaye Read More…
Our government seems to enjoy keeping sensitive information from you and I, even though we pay their salaries and place them in the positions they are in. I believe the people have a right to know. It is not up to career bureaucrats and elected leaders to tell us we can’t handle sensitive information because Read More…
By Scott Sullivan Editor Saugatuck City Council Monday approved $22,600 in engineering services towards an estimated $400,000 crushing and shaping with drainage repairs this fall to Taylor, Takken, East and West streets between Allegan and Mason streets. The good news: Engineer Fleis & VandenBrink considers these streets high-priority improvements because they do not have urgent Read More…
By Jason WesseldykSports EditorSaugatuck sophomore Kennedy Gustafson was a force to be reckoned with during the SAC Central girls basketball game against visiting Martin on Friday, Feb. 10, scoring a game-best 18 points.Eight of those points came in the fourth quarter, as Gustafson tried to lead her team back from a 34-25 deficit at the Read More…
By Scott SullivanEditorWaiting for GaudreauMonty Python met adventures seeking the Holy Grail, but none like I have pursuing perfection.My frustration meeting a standard that can’t exist — If no human is perfect, how can a human know what perfect is? — reached a boiling point when I overheated oatmeal. Healthy glop everywhere. I needed answers. Read More…
By Scott SullivanEditorA car stolen near Traverse City saw its journey end Feb. 5 in a crash south of Douglas, landing both occupants in hospitals.Neither name as of press time had been released.Douglas police officer Tony Brown spotted a vehicle at 10:27 that night with multiple code violations and “suspicious activity” happening inside driving southbound Read More…
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor SAUGATUCK—Junior Russell VandePoel was one of several members of the Saugatuck boys basketball team who had been battling sickness as the Trailblazers prepared for its SAC Central game with Martin on Friday, Feb. 10.But that didn’t stop VandePoel from coming up big when his team needed him the most.VandePoel scored 10 Read More…