Saugatuck News

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 .

Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Monday vetoed K-12 school aid payments to school districts that get among the highest per-pupil payments statewide.

A school funding bill has cleared the Legislature, but not without some strings attached.

Another large swath of duneland along Lake Michigan might soon be for sale. Click to enlarge The Presbytery of Chicago is considering selling the 130 acres of the Presbyterian Camps at Saugatuck to help cover financial needs in the denomination, according to sources and Web sites.

Some local state lawmakers say some people are abusing the state's welfare system and they're introducing a bill to crack down on it.

A battle brewing again tonight in Saugatuck Township, over one of the largest chunks of pristine properties on Lake Michigan.

In Saugatuck, Michigan , the Saugatuck Brewing Co. is teaming up with local bed and breakfasts to offer a Bed, Breakfast and Brewery package.

Development group Singapore Dunes, LLC. wants more leeway on what it can build on 318 acres of prime undeveloped land at the Kalamazoo River mouth.

Conservation groups have made a deal with the owner of the former Denison Property in Saugatuck.

A $20 million purchase agreement to buy 171 pristine dune acres south of the Saugatuck channel brings the public preservation project close to fruition, a longtime project supporter said today.