Telephones have perplexed me since I had to put my pointer finger into the rotary dial seven times instead of four as before. I had just learned to count to five; two more were a challenge.Since then it’s just gotten…

By Scott Sullivan Editor Saugatuck Township will host an open house to celebrate, welcome and thank the community for making possible its redone hall. Stop in. The enlarged main entrance, now facing Clearbrook Drive south, not Blue Star Highway east,…

Saugatuck’s First Congregational Church heads into its 164th year of ministry with good news: with congregation funds already raised the expansive, historic has replaced all eight furnaces and five air-conditioning units that keep it comfortable for guests. Much has changed…

Sandra Randolph opened Good Goods in 1989 in one room of the historic “White House” building on the corner of Mason and Water streets in Saugatuck. Thirty-plus years later the business fills two floors with fine art and American crafts…

J. Petter Galleries, 160 N. Blue Star, Hwy., will feature Rein Vanderhill’s fall painting shown, Kim Zahnow’s photo of a couple exploring other space interiors there and more during Fall Gallery Stroll 47 Saturday, Oct. 7. From 2-4 p.m. Eve…

By Jason WesseldykSports EditorDELTON—Another week, another win for the Saugatuck football team.The Trailblazers opened play in the SAC Valley with a 42-14 road win over Delton, pushing their record to 6-0 in the process.All but one of Saugatuck’s victories—a 15-14…

By Maggie ConklinKeep it SimpleFor many years my mother Molly and I would spend one week each early October at a watercolor art workshop on Mackinac Island.Our teacher was a wonderful German woman who wrote a book about her harrowing…

By Scott SullivanEditor1Rivers ran wine last week in São Lorenco do Bairro, Portugal after two distillery tanks burst, unleashing a 600,000-gallon tide to dismay or delight, depending.The vintner swallowed his losses — enough to fill an Olympic pool — and…

By Scott SullivanEditorSaugatuck City Council member and former mayor Garnet Lewis Friday withdrew Friday from the Nov. 7 council race, leaving the city with three candidates — Holly Anderson, Russ Gardner and Logan White — for as many seats.Lewis and…

The first thing most people noticed about Lydia Fish (nee Mihleisen), bides from her accent, was the twinkle in her blue eyes and “I’m up to something” grin. In the seven years she lived in her old blue farmhouse with…

Sharon (Sherry) Elaine Koehler Edris died at age 76.  Sherry was born in Herington, Kansas.  She graduated from Herington High School in 1964 as a member of the National Honor Society.  She attended Brown-Mackie School of Business in Salina, Kansas…

I’ve always had a healthy distrust of government. From the time as a college student working in the U.S. Capitol and state legislature, I have felt that many of our politicians are there to enhance themselves and not the public…

“Don’t forget where you came from,” Father used to admonish my sister and me going out the door. In time I figured out it meant more than the house number where we lived, just remember to bring honor, shame to…

By Maggie ConklinEasy Stuffed DuckThe family story goes one long-ago night my parents were eating at a fine restaurant with some Dad’s business customers, Mom’s cousin Bob and lifelong friend Margaret.Mom Milley lectured Bob all afternoon long about how to…

By Scott SullivanEditorSaddling UpHe saddled up to the bar and gritted through rotted cuspids, bicuspids, incisors …“Aren’t you s’posed to sidle?” asked Zeke the Barkeep.“Buck you,” he spat through his bridge, spitting bloody Chiclets square into bullseyes of 12 dartboards.…

By Scott SullivanEditorLast rites may loom for the historic Reiss tugboat when, per a classified listing last week, current owner Steve Horn hopes to sell it for scrap, cash only, Oct. 3Built in 1913 the tug, then named the Q.A.…

By Jason WesseldykSports Editor SAUGATUCK—On paper, the SAC crossover football game pitting host Saugatuck against visiting Coloma looked like a mismatch.After all, the Trailblazers entered the game at 4-0, while the Comets were 0-4.And it quickly became apparent that this…

Mike “Dirty Jobs” Rowe wrote about work, “What’s happening now in this country that scares me to the core fundamentally is we have never had so much unrealized opportunity and little enthusiasm for it.”Since before European settlement America has been…

A few days ago, a story popped up on my computer screen entitled Michigan police rescue woman trapped in outhouse. It piqued my curiosity because the article proclaimed it happened in Otsego, MI, where we publish the Union Enterprise. After…

BY JIM HAYDEN CORRESPONDENT A new outdoor learning center is coming to a Laketown Township’s Wolters Woods Park. The township Building Authority earlier this month approved use of a recently-acquired house there for a nature school run by Holland Christian…