BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR A Saturday morning blaze caused severe damage to an Old Allegan Road home and ended a 15-month stretch of no structure fires in the Saugatuck Township Fire District jurisdiction, reported department IT director Erik Kirchert. A passer-by spotted a roughly 3-foot diameter fire on the porch but received no response upon Read More…
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR Is building water lines to Lake Michigan like taking coals to Newcastle? Not for homeowners near the big lake. John Castro March 9 told the Saugatuck Township Board most, although not all, of his neighbors were on board for extending municipal water via a 12-inch diameter main 2,100 feet along Wiley Read More…
By Scott SullivanEditorFossilsScientists have named a 330 million-year-old creature found fossilized in limestone Syllipsimopodi bideni after President Joe Biden. That makes Biden older than dinosaurs. Go figure.The fossil, discovered in Montana, was donated to the Royal Ontario Museum where it sat undisturbed in a drawer from 1988 till recently when paleontologist Christopher Whalen pulled it Read More…
Nancy Lee Fosdick, 75, of Big Clifty, Ky., passed away on March 3, 2022.She was preceded in death by her parents, Charles and Josephine Fosdick, and stepmother Hazel Fosdick, all of Douglas.Nancy is survived by her husband, Fred Fetcho of Kentucky; brother Tom and Sally Fosdick of Holland; sister Jackie and John Vohiken of Grand Read More…
During some years Saugatuck’s St. Patrick’s Day Erin-Go-Bark Parade is a precursor to spring warmth and fun. Last Saturday’ event was, well fun, with costumed pooches and their pet humans braving snow squalls to strut downtown streets. Warmth is coming, really … when it decides to. (Photos by Scott Sullivan)
By Scott SullivanEditorThis time it’s official. A Saugatuck Center for the Arts “wave” of rowboats planned this summer for Coghlin Park — wrongly reported here Jan. 27 winning Saugatuck City Council approval — Monday did, in adjusted form.The proposal, one of seven installations the Center plans locally marking its 20th anniversary, won conceptual approval at Read More…
I’m turning over my column space to my friend, Dr. Glenn Mollette this week. Mollett a doctor and a writer, is of the opinion we need to disconnect ourselves from a reliance on both Russian and Chinese goods. I couldn’t say it any better.America is no longer buying energy or vodka from Russia. Russians can Read More…
Growing up, my favorite television cartoon program was Rocky and Bullwinkle. There were several different segments such as Fractured Fairy Tales, Dudley Doright, Mr. Know It All, and of course, the cartoon of Rocky the flying squirrel and his non-candidate for membership in Mensa friend Bullwinkle the Moose. Often, they had to deal with the dastardly Russian spies, Read More…
The fifth annual Mountainfilm on Tour: Saugatuck Film Festival — bringing together children’s programming, outdoor adventure, meaningful and creative films, and community collaboration — is underway at the Saugatuck Center for the Arts. Ongoing through March is a scavenger hunt. On tap: a Children’s Film Festival March 14-31, Family Film Festival March 19 and Community Read More…
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR The Saugatuck Township Board Wednesday, March 9, weighed closing on an Oct. 4, 2017 agreement to buy 5.8 acres owned by North Shores of Saugatuck LLC north of 135th Avenue for $ 1 to provide municipal well services to neighbors. The Kalamazoo Lake Sewer & Water Authority — which serves Saugatuck Read More…