By Jason WesseldykSports EditorRollin’ along.That’s exactly what the Saugatuck girls basketball team is doing, as the Trailblazers ran their winning streak to seven with a 57-30 victory over Howardsville Christian on Monday, Feb. 5.Saugatuck improved to 12-1 overall.The Simpson sisters had a little outside-inside game going, with senior Brook leading all scorers with 20 points Read More…
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Maggie’s Pantry
By Maggie ConklinChicken SimpleI bought four chicken thighs on sale and was at a loss how to cook them. It wasn’t enough to crank up the slow cooker, and I was tired of baked chicken.I didn’t find much in the refrigerator, other than some rainbow chard. What’s in the pantry? A can of stewed tomatoes. Read More…
Blue Star
By Scott SullivanEditorTransformersApple Vision Pro headsets now out usher in the age of “spatial computing,” the tech giant says.For $3,500 we can don goggles that let us experience “the intersection of the physical world around us and a virtual world fabricated by technology, while enabling humans and machines to harmoniously manipulate objects and spaces.”In politics, Read More…
Douglas eyes uses for old plant site
By Scott SullivanEditorWhat’s new with 200 Blue Star Hwy., apart from the parcel that once housed Douglas’s largest private employer/taxpayer now marking 10 years vacant?City council met Monday with its Brownfield Redevelopment Authority to discuss contract planners’ latest conceptual design for the south Douglas gateway property.Based on 667 responses to a Dec. 1-24 survey, consultant Read More…
Life as Performance Art
My late friend George was a researcher. If it interested him, and everything did, there was no subject too great or small for him not to devote considerable time and energy into looking into it in detail. A year or so before they were planning on an extensive trip to China, George started making his list Read More…
Emergency calls down 4.1 percent last year
By Scott Sullivan Editor The Saugatuck Township Fire District — which serves Douglas and Saugatuck cities in addition to the township — responded to 981 calls last year, down 4.1 percent from 2022’s record 1,023. Among them, emergent (Priority 1 or 2, involving lights and sirens) calls totaled 430. Average response time was six minutes, Read More…
STFD eyes freeway safety truck
By Scott Sullivan Editor The Saugatuck Township Fire District is exploring acquiring an estimated $201,273.52 Traffic Management Apparatus to ensure staff and public safety, especially during freeway crashes. Individual donations toward that end total $9,500 so far. “Since 2019,” chief Greg Janik has apprised member municipal government boards and councils, “our firefighters responded to 207 Read More…
Interurban head Yff to retire
By Scott Sullivan Editor Interurban director Phyllis Yff is retiring. The 10-year transit authority head announced her decisions last week thanking the community for its support and vowing to assist finding and helping establish her replacement. “This service,” Yff said in a letter to The Commercial Record (Page A4) “has been a wonderful asset in Read More…
Saugatuck gets defensive in victory
By Jason WesseldykSports EditorIn the first half of its SAC contest against Gobles on Friday, Jan. 26, the Saugatuck girls basketball team played a smothering brand of defense.And the Trailblazers were even better in the second half.Saugatuck limited the Tigers to 13 first-half points before holding Gobles to nine second-half points.The result?A 55-22 victory that Read More…
Obituary: Barbara King Paxson
Barbara King Paxson was a lifelong artist and a lover and maker of lyric beauty. Her life was one of service to human existence. She was a soul most tender and aware, a woman who endured bravely and often alone the shocks and burdens of life in a desensitized, fragmented, uncaring world. She passed away Read More…