By Scott SullivanEditorFormsAsked ethnicity, skin color, cultural/sexual identity … just check boxes the form provides. Conclude each one excludes others.Am I:• Irish, English, French, German … (God knows what my dad, with more research, might have dug up)?• Caucasian (originally Armenian, Azerbaijani, Georgian or South Russian from the Caucasus Mountains region between the Caspian and Read More…
By Scott SullivanEditorBlue Star Trail backers entered the holidays buoyed by an official state letter confirming their application for their $1.72-million federal Transportation Alternatives Program grant had been acknowledged with $1.344 million pending, though money’s not in the bank yet.Same for Saugatuck city’s request for a $300,000 a Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund Development Grant. Read More…
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor LAWTON—A third-quarter scoring run by Lawton proved to be the undoing for the Saugatuck girls basketball team on Tuesday, Dec. 13.After the teams fought to a 16-16 standoff at the end of the first half, the Blue Devils used a 9-0 spurt in the third stanza to take the lead for Read More…
For all true geeks and geekettes, December 12th was a milestone day on the calendar, a seventy-fifth anniversary of considerable importance. That was also the day I walked into a friend’s shop and saw a magnificent Skyscraper style radio, straight out of the 1930s. They are rare because during the Great Depression GE didn’t make many Skyscrapers. Read More…
I always felt guilty as a child on Christmas morning, when I opened a treasure trove of presents. I say guilty because I knew next door or down the road, my friends were nearly bare under their Christmas tree.Although Christmas is a lot about giving and receiving gifts, and family get togethers, sometimes the true Read More…
Randall “Randy” Scott Smit went home to his Savior on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022 at age 54.He was preceded in death by his paternal grandparents, James and Anna Smit, maternal grandparents, Elmer and Marie Kadera, father-in-law, Roger Westrate, and his beloved service dog, Delta Air.He is survived by his loving wife of 31 years, Jill Read More…
By Scott SullivanEditorGoing PlacesBeep-beep-ahuga! Agent Mansel Boyd’s Model T tooted the State Farm Insurance jingle pulling in our driveway.Dad, stepping up from Lansing agent to Saginaw manager, had moved Mom and four sons (at 6, I was oldest) into a new split-level from an interim dead-end rental. Through woods downhill from the former I’d lay Read More…
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor SAUGATUCK—Following a one-point overtime loss to Bridgman in its season-opening game, the Saugatuck boys basketball team was hoping to get into the win column in its SAC contest with Gobles on Friday, Dec. 9.The Trailblazers did just that, and in decisive fashion.Saugatuck jumped out to a 16-7 lead after the opening Read More…
I have a confession to make. I’m a local newspaper addict. I write them, I sell them, and most importantly I read every single one I can get my hands on.Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately depending on your viewpoint, I also buy them. Amazingly I’ve had a great deal of success in doing so.This week I Read More…
If anyone knows where you can find one of those ugly little soft rubbery-like coin wallets, please let me know. If it is before Christmas, bring it over to our place and let my wife know so she can wrap it and put it under the tree. I haven’t seen one for a few years. Read More…