Saugatuck/Douglas Commercial Record
Saugatuck boys avenge earlier loss to Clippers on hardwood
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor SAUGATUCK—A win over visiting Martin on Tuesday, Feb. 15, would not only give the Saugatuck boys basketball team a measure of revenge for an earlier loss to the Clippers, but it was also mark the Trailblazers’ their first three-game winning streak of the season.Russell VandePoel did his part to ensure his Read More…
Mike’s Musings: High cost of energy fuels inflation
Inflation is at a 40-year high in the United States. Prices that were stable a year have taken a 7.5% jump. Going to the grocery store has put a strain on most of our pocketbooks. Used cars are 41 percent higher than a year ago, and new cars, if you can find them, are much Read More…
Life as Performance Art
Marinell Barretta of north-ern Italy died at age 70. That part, with the mortality rate holding steady at 100 per-cent, was not surprising. What followed was.Local authorities found her mummified remains Feb. 4 some two and a half years after she’d died. There was no sign of foul play or chem-ical abuse.The last thing she Read More…
City dead-ends proposed park temp road
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR A proposed temporary construction road through Cook Park won a cool reception from Saugatuck City Council at its Feb. 9 workshop. Members at their regular meeting five days later OK’d a shorter access largely through Butler Restaurant Butler Street parking spaces through business-owned property. The Grand Rapids-based RedWater Collection, which last Read More…
Douglas OKs $20K for public murals
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR Look for murals on the north and west walls of the Lake Vista SuperValu grocery store and under the Blue Star Bridge after Douglas City Council Feb. 7 agreed to share $20,000 worth of costs with the Downtown Development Authority to place public art there. The DDA has approved $18,000 towards Read More…
Blue Star
By WinkKittenFinal FrontierThink you have free-floating angst? The idea of black holes roaming interstellar space has me almost as anxious as my black kitten lying atop my computer keyboard.An international team of researchers say they’ve confirmed that a possible microlensing event — when starlight is bent by gravity — seen in 2011 was due to Read More…
Life as Performance Art
It’s the time of year when aspiring writers get out pens and big legal pads of lined yellow paper. Others find their grandparents’ manual Underwood or Royal type-writer, spray WD-40 on the ribbon to refresh it after dec-ades in the closet and settle down to write the Great American Novel. Or they start a new Read More…
Mike’s Musings: Release Assange now, he has endured enough punishment
There are so many innocent people jailed for crimes they haven’t committed. I worked for a time, helping to expose some that were incarcerated, yet innocent. One of those, a man I truly admire is Julian Assange, and I hope and pray at some point, he will be released.Assange, founder of Wiki Leaks, faces an Read More…
Saugatuck girls drop close game
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor SAUGATUCK—Playing for the third time in four nights, the Saugatuck girls basketball team dropped a 40-37 decision to visiting Galesburg-Augusta on Friday, Feb. 11.Down 30-26 after three quarters, the Trailblazers had the opportunity to tie the score in the game’s waning seconds. But a 3-point attempt missed its mark, sealing Saugatuck’s Read More…