Pause global warming and enjoy while we can what comes naturally during Michigan Februaries. The Brown family did as much exploring and sliding on Mt. Baldhead Park/Oval Beach dunes last week. (Photo by Scott Sullivan)
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Fifth Blue Star pot shop planned
By Scott SullivanEditorSoon there may be five marijuana providers near each other on Blue Star Highway.The Saugatuck Township Planning Commission Jan. 24 approved a special land use application from Be Positive, Best Buds to create a new dispensary on 4.86 now-vacant acres on the southwest corner of Blue Star and Just Barns Drive south of Read More…
Douglas seeks to clear PCB block holdup
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” has nothing on the ex-Douglas Haworth Plant. Melching Demolition, which in December began razing the 150,300 square-foot ex-factory and two utility buildings above ground at 200 Blue Star Hwy., also dug up problems. Approximately 120 feet of the plant’s north wall has been found Read More…
Township Defranco operations coordinator
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR Resident and planning commission member Daniel DeFranco has been hired by the Saugatuck Township Board as operations coordinator on a month-to-month basis to fill the staffing gap left when members parted ways suddenly with ex-manager Joe Frey. The board announced at its regular Jan. 12 meeting they and Frey, manager for Read More…
Township weighs multi-color brand
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR Could the above be Saugatuck Township’s new logo? The board, after close to six months of deliberating, was slated Wednesday, Feb. 9 — too late for this week’s Commercial Record print deadline — to decide. The board last July 14 last year hired Concept A Creative, also used by the Saugatuck-Douglas Read More…
City ranks Felkers, Main projects tops
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR So little money, so many needs. Douglas City Council, not alone facing said situation, has prioritized a Main Street water main and Felkers water, road and sewer issues tops amongeight projects members have discussed addressing in its next year’s budget. Felkers subdivision, south of West Center Street and east of Lakeshore Read More…
New vendor to float Douglas boats
BY SCOTT SULLIVAN EDITOR Douglas will have a new kayak and stand-up paddleboard rental vendor at Wade’s Bayou after 18 years. Council Monday approved granting St. Joseph-based Third Coast Surf Shop a 3-year lease to operate out of the waterfront park after its $5,000-per-year minimum bid to provide the service came in more than four Read More…
Mike’s Musings: A day I don’t want to repeat
Sometimes it just doesn’t pay to get out of bed. One of those days was last week, when I boarded anairplane in Orlando to Detroit.Now all I had heard days before is how this once-in-a-decade blizzard was blanketing Michigan. Iassumed my flight would be cancelled, but lo and behold, not only was it “not cancelled,” Read More…
Blue Star
By Scott SullivanEditorReuleauxThe Washington Football Team formerly known as Redskins and perennially as losers has a new nickname, and I’m offended. As a woke and sensitive soul, the last thing I need is steroid-fed giants wearing pistols and bling pretending they’re my “Commanders.”I get “Redskins” was almost as offensive to Native Americans as Saugatuck’s “Indians,” Read More…
Life as Performance Art
By G.C. StoppelOn a Saturday morning two somewhat related messages came across my computer.The first was from owners of Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris reminding me there would be a reading of James Joyce’s novel “Ulysses” in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of its release. When Joyce asked store founder Sylvia Beach if she would publish Read More…