Saugatuck News

The movie titled "Kalamazoo, River: US" made its premiere last month. Other screenings are planned and DVDs are being sold.

Those holiday jingles are arriving. Downtown shop owners in Holland will have decorated trees in their stores starting Monday for the Trail of Trees, which is tied to the Festival of Giving benefit to support the Holland Free Health Clinic.

The steelhead fishing in the Kalamazoo River and in the St. Joe River is improving as the water level retreats and the leaves have already fallen.

Grand Rapids Public Schools is among 13 districts selected to be part of Michigan's application for a share of $4.35 billion Race to the Top federal grants set aside as part of the education reform plan by President Barack Obama's Administration.

A plan to replace state park entry fees with a $10 surcharge on vehicle registrations sailed through the Senate on Thursday, amid concerns that it may not raise as much money to fix up parks as its backers claim.

Michigan drivers would get unlimited access to state parks for $10 a year if a new funding plan that cleared a legislative hurdle Thursday wins final approval.

This oughta re-spark a good debate along the lakeshore. Two studies will be released a week from Saturday on the idea of consolidating Saugautuck-and-Douglas. Plante-Moran did one, MSU did the other.

The Saugatuck Douglas Area Business Association is holding its annual holiday home decorating contest.

The state would scrap park entrance fees in favor of a voluntary $10 add-on to the annual vehicle registration charge under a two-bill package passed by the Senate today.

A Tuesday night fire destroyed a building that formerly housed Naughtins Marine, Saugatuck Township Fire Chief John Blok said.

City Council member C. Daniel Urquhart has resigned from the Kalamazoo Harbor master plan committee; his wife, Alexa Urquhart, was appointed to the position.

The six-bedroom home transformed into the Designer Show House 2009 has a European mystique that seems a world away from after-school programs for at-risk children.

An $18.49 million bond request was a cliffhanger Tuesday, with school district residents approving the issue by just 239 votes, according to results from administrators.

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Teaching jobs aren't threatened yet by $655,000 in cuts which the Saugatuck school district must make because of state funding cutbacks.

Saugatuck schools have some tough choices to make now that the new Michigan budget is set.

Fifteen years ago, Michigan changed the way it pays for public education, switching from local property taxes to a mix of sales and property taxes, lottery revenue and other money.

Partygoers register for The B.O.B.'s costume contest. GRAND RAPIDS -- At The B.O.B., it's all about the costumes -- ultra-professional, often-macabre costumes that draw contestants and spectators from across Michigan to downtown Grand Rapids' "haunted indoor circus." At The Orbit Room, it's about hard rock and heavy metal music, not to mention ...

It was standing-room-only in the lower level program room at Loutit District Library as a couple of local ghost hunters made a timely presentation Tuesday night - four nights before Halloween.

October 23, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. - "As a council person, I'll work to actualize the challenges of the Tri-Community report," Karen Spoerl, a 1958 graduate of DePauw University, tells the Commercial Record .