Retiring director of Felt Mansion leaving lasting legacy

Art Tolsma of Holland has been climbing ladders and fixing roofs for more than 30 years, so he’s right at home in high places. But 552 feet above the Straits of Mackinac, looking out from the main towers of the…
One maple. One oak. One maple. One oak. “You’re going to enjoy it in 25 years,” Saugatuck High School English teacher Mike Shaw told almost two dozen students on Tuesday, Nov. 22, in the middle of the wind-blown parking lot…
A future Highland Games champion may literally have roots in Laketown Township. Local participants in the Holland Celtic Festival and Highland Games collected more than a dozen fallen trees from two township parks on Tuesday, Nov. 1, that will be…
Randy Rypma can hear the ping-ponging of the pickleball paddles from his house just behind the tree line. The sound is music to his ears. “We play three times a week,” Rypma said about the new courts at Laketown Township…