By Scott SullivanEditorA Saugatuck Township developer cited last spring for over-digging a ski lake will be allowed to remove the resulting sand piles from his 47-acre site northwest of Blue Star Highway.But Chad VanHorn, per the Michigan Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) department Oil, Gas and Minerals Division, cannot excavate his manmade water body Read More…
Traditional Easter festivities — bonnet contest, parade and kids’ egg/candy hunt — returned to Douglas Sunday courtesy Ruoff Mortgates. For more pictures, see inside. (Phtoo by Scott Sullivan)
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR Remember Saugatuck’s off-season Social District, launched two years ago to help licensed downtown alcohol-selling businesses to deal with indoor Covid-19 social distancing strictures? Now, as in neighbor Douglas, it will extend year-round. City council Monday agreed to allow patrons to consume to-go alcohol in public daily from 11 a.m. to 11 Read More…
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR Easter festivities will return to downtown Douglas this Sunday after two years off due to Covid-19 restrictions. Fun, sponsored by Ruoff Mortgages, will include a bonnet contest, parade and egg hunt in the downtown area. The combined events will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. with set-up starting at 11 Read More…
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR A developer’s marina proposal for Hutchins Lake two miles southwest of Fennville will be subject of a state online public hearing Monday, May 9, starting at 6 p.m. David DeGroot of the DeGroot Family is seeking Environmental, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) Water Resources Division approval for a permit to build Read More…
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR Dig in, who knows what you’ll find? Such is the case with Campbell Road improvements being shared by Saugatuck and Douglas, project engineers say. Saugatuck’s council Monday approved the city’s additional $17,400 share of the $39,500 added engineering services Fleis & VandenBrink’s Jon Moxey said will be needed to complete water Read More…
Last week’s story “City OKs plan for structure already built” was based on erroneous Douglas Planning Commission draft minutes posted by the city accidentally. The Dunes Resort did demolish a pool onsite lacking proper permits — because of a miscommunication with city building inspector Michigan Township Services, owner Mike Jones says — but did not Read More…
Linda Jane VanderLaan, age 81, of Fennville passed away Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at Douglas Cove Healthcare Center. Born to William and Virginia (Bierly) Lucus of Columbus, Ohio on Jan. 31, 1941. Linda was raised as the oldest of three daughters in Peoria and Collinsville, Ill. She graduated from Collinsville High School in 1959 as a Read More…
By Mike WilcoxPublisherI read a report a few days ago that lamented the decline in college enrollment in the state of Michigan, and the United States for that matter.Here, Central Michigan University was down nearly 50 percent over the past decade. Western Michigan and other public colleges were down substantially as well. Only U of Read More…
By G. Corwin StoppelRobert “Bob” Ingersoll died just before the 20th century started and his name soon slipped into obscurity. Like his father, Congregationalist Rev. Robert Ingersoll, he was a target and magnet because of his outspoken and frequently unpopular views.His father, a staunch abolitionist and strict Calvinist, was frequently dismissed from his pulpit, forcing Read More…