June I. Spriggs, age 75, passed away on Monday, Jan. 2, 2022, at Holland Hospital following a brief illness. Her loving husband David Langley was by her side. June was born in Nankin Township on June 20, 1947 and graduated from Eastern Michigan University in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Special Education. She Read More…
Paul (known to friends and family as Pete/Peter), passed away at his home on Jan. 2 due to complications of kidney disease. He is dearly missed by his loving wife of 63 years, Judy Smith Polka and his “girls” Stephanie Polka Vandeven and Heather Polka Pedersen. He is also survived by his son-in-law Michiel Vandeven, grandchildren Read More…
By Scott SullivanEditorPolar ExpressMy imaginary polar trip, paired with Ron and Maggie Conklin’s real one, had grown more dire. We were on a 10-foot Zodiac ‘twixt Tierra del Fuego and Antarctica, provisions out. Chef had smashed a penguin, pried it from the inflatable’s bow and served it.“Wait,” I asked. “Two of us on a small Read More…
By Scott SullivanEditorBowlingIn the media room, media converge. Ex-WZZM-TV news anchor/now Saugatuck Mayor Pro-Tem Lauren Stanton, husband and Retro Boats co-visionary John Sharer and Tony (Of Love) D’Amato.For 24 years Damato (no apostrophe) birthed and skippered the Red Dock, a Douglas harbor icon Sharer/Stanton are now taking on.Damato’s first farewell tour here, on heels of Read More…
I have often said or written that I find a new calendar, the type with large square boxes, delightful. There, spread out over twelve months, are some 365 days, with a bonus one every four years, of the coming year. Some are filled in very quickly before I forget. That includes birthdays, anniversaries, major events that are already Read More…
Wayne William Nestander, the elder son of Lutheran minister Palmer Sigurd Nestander and his wife Florence Hildur, was born June 9, 1930, in Alta, Iowa. He completed much of his grade school there until Palmer was called to serve a Manistique, Michigan congregation in 1941.He continued his education in Manistique until Palmer was called again Read More…
Donald Vander Leek, age 82, passed away on Dec. 27, 2022 in Holland. A Celebration of Life service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 7 at Lakeshore Memorial Services, 11939 James St. Holland, MI 49424. A time of fellowship and refreshments will follow.
By Scott SullivanEditorImaginary NumbersGet negative and zero times real (whole or natural, no fractions) numbers? Now multiply the latter (aka rational numbers or integers) by imaginary constant i.I’d guess -178 x i % of us have no use for impractical tomfoolery. Our tax dollars vanish as quantum physicists seek new knowledge. Hardworking Rand Paul studied Read More…
By Scott SullivanEditorAs 2023 dawns despite our protests, we return to Rear In Your View lessons 2022 didn’t teach us. AprilCommunity Church of Douglas, having sold the west 50 of its 80 acres at 6874 Wiley Road to Lakeside Pastures LLC, hosts a mortgage burning. The new owners, says CCD manager Mike Mora, have no Read More…
By Scott SullivanEditorA 3-story, mixed-use building at 200 Center St. is being proposed by Douglas Flats, LLC. It would be part of an existing planned unit development sharing a real estate office, vacant land west of the Saugatuck-Douglas District Library plus the first 3-story residential/commercial structure at 150 Center.The developer, incorporated under the name of Read More…