Arm your legs for the 24th annual Labor Day Blue Star Bridge Walk Monday, Sept. 5, gathering in Douglas at 9 a.m. and ambling north to Saugatuck at 9:30. The not-so-grueling 0.19-kilometer (623-foot) stroll offers finisher’s certificates you can cherish for a lifetime on completion, friendship, a late summer group celebration and exercise. Fun will Read More…
Helen Corlett Higgins died peacefully on Aug. 22, 2022, at age 97.She and her husband Charles Wheaton Higgins (deceased 2015) raised four children, Charlie (Abby Huntoon), Beth (Rick Ramsson), Tom (Lucy) and Cathy (Tom Kamm). She was Nana to Sarah, Robert, Gretchen, Eric, Thomas, Meredith, Caitlyn, Jordan and Jenny, and to her great grandchildren Natalie, Read More…
Robert “Bob” Deets, 69, of Fennville, MI passed away peacefully, surrounded by family on Aug. 5, 2022.Born Aug. 17, 1962, Bob had a gift of engaging in meaningful conversation; thoughtful, precise and caring. A loving man, he was always there for his family and friends, always willing to go the extra mile for them. He retired Read More…
By Scott SullivanEditorEnergyTwenty-four hours is a long time to stay alert riding tandem bike loops around Belle Isle. Sights, other bikers, spinning wheels, meal stops, varied becomes familiar. My friends’ crash convinced them this day and night’s ride was over.Mitchell, by his accounts a Kansas inventor’s son who ran off, joined a carnival, then the Read More…
Frank Banko, who claims he grew up in Cleveland near “Polka King Frankie Yankovic,” loves busking near Saugatuck’s downtown Butler Street Rose Gaden, offering accordion polka standards, French tunes evoking the Left Bank of Paris and more. He plied his passion here again last week. (Photos by Scott Sullivan)
By Scott SullivanEditorLocal developer Dave Barker, scheduled for arraignment Sept. 8 on three felony allegations, is proposing a 90-unit Forest Gate condominiums on 13 acres at 485 Ferry St. west of the former Haworth plant and north of Northern Lights Condominiums. He plans to plead not guilty in Allegan County 57th District Court.It and a Read More…
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor BUCHANAN—Junior Will Doucette had an impressive opening game for the Saugatuck football team.Carrying the ball 13 times, Doucette racked up 181 rushing yards—an average of 13.9 yards per carry—and three touchdowns against host Buchanan on Thursday, Aug. 25.That was the good news for the Trailblazers. The bad news was Buchanan jumped Read More…
JM Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, also wrote the script for a play, and later a movie, he called The Old Lady Shows her Medals. It is set right after World War One in London. The plot is disarmingly simple: an older woman invites a young soldier home on leave to come to her house for Read More…
It’s so great to be a taxpayer in the United States. Our government continues to pile on the middle class with new tax after new tax.Now we are being told we must contribute to the $500 billion slush fund that will be used to pay $10,000 to $20,000 to Americans with college loans. Essentially productive Read More…
By Scott SullivanEditorRenaissance“Janice Bleil made a pile right in the middle of Belle Isle,” kids teased my mom growing up in 1940s Detroit, last name from a father she never saw.I saw 982-acre Belle Isle in 1984 crewing for Mitchell Miner and Karen Hipkiss riding tandem in a 24-hour bicycle race till they crashed near Read More…