NO BONES ABOUT IT

It’s late October and the forecast is upper 60s and sunny every day, so plan accordingly.

🎈 = family-friendly

All week
🎭 Company – Final weekend at the Beardsley. Thu and Fri at 7:30 PM, closing with a Sat matinee at 3 PM. Tickets
🎈🌾 Harvest Hay Bale Trail – Downtown Muskegon. Voting runs through Oct 31.

Tuesday
🌳 Waterfront park walk-through – Third Street Wharf, 5 to 6:30 PM. Details up top.
🎶 Xtreme Music Bingo – Unruly Brewing, free to play.

Wednesday
🧠 Trivia – Unruly Brewing, free to play.
🏃 Run Muskegon – The weekly group run, usually out of Pigeon Hill.

Thursday
🪩 Music Bingo Trivia – The Kirby House, Grand Haven, 6 to 8 PM, free. Last full week of Decades of Dance.
🎤 Karaoke Night – Unruly Brewing, 7 PM.
👗 People’s Choice Fashion Extravaganza – Adelaide Events Center, Muskegon. Doors 5:30 PM, runway 6:30 PM.

Friday
🎤 Colton Dixon x Micah Tyler – The Frauenthal, 7 PM. Tickets
🎸 Rock Variety Show – Unruly Brewing, $5.
💀 Bones About Town voting closes – Noon.

Saturday
🎈🎃 Grand Haven Fall Fest – Details up top.
🎈🥕 Muskegon Farmers Market – 8 AM to 2 PM.

Coming up
🎃 Shoreline Spooktacular Trunk or Treat – Hackley Park, Tue, Oct 27, 5 to 7 PM.
🎺 Dumpstaphunk – The Frauenthal, Thu, Oct 29.
🍸 Martini Lounge Showcase – Unruly, Fri, Oct 30, $5.
🤠 Gary Allan – The Frauenthal, Fri, Oct 30.
☘️ Midnight in Ireland – Unruly, Sat, Oct 31. Irish acts from around noon to 7:30 PM, then ZIP City at 8:30 PM.

🗳️ Early Bird Ballots – Early in-person voting opens at Muskegon City Hall this weekend, ahead of the Nov. 3 election. Hours are Sat 8 AM to 4 PM and Sun 10 AM to 6 PM.

🏫 Homework for Voters – Grand Haven Area Public Schools has a $98.55 million bond proposal on the November ballot. Nine candidates are running for four school board seats. The Grand Haven Tribune has an explainer and candidate profiles.

🎨 Last Call for Contemporary – The 97th Michigan Contemporary exhibition at the Muskegon Museum of Art closes Nov. 4. That leaves two Thursdays to see it for free.

👗 Runway Night – The Tribune’s People’s Choice winners for best apparel shop are putting on a fashion show Thursday at Adelaide Events Center in Muskegon. That’s Only You, Lark and Down To Earth Boutique. Doors open at 5:30 PM with mimosas and bellinis, and the show starts at 6:30.

Mona Shores (7-1, 5-0) finished off an outright OK Green title with a 36-0 shutout of Forest Hills Northern. Kevin White ran for 221 yards on nine carries. North Muskegon (7-1, 5-0) erased a 13-0 halftime hole to beat Ravenna 21-13 for a fifth straight WMC Rivers title. Fruitport (6-2) won its fifth straight game at the Whitecaps’ ballpark, then celebrated by running the bases.

Week 8 finals:

Around the county

⚽ Derby Night – Mona Shores and Grand Haven meet in a Division 1 district semifinal tonight at 7 PM at Grandville. The winner plays for the district title Thursday at 6 PM.

⚽ Round Two, Different Ball – North Muskegon and Ravenna meet again Wednesday, this time in a Division 4 soccer semi at 5 PM at WMC. Also Wednesday, Montague and Whitehall play at 5 PM at Oakridge, and Fruitport faces Allendale at 7 PM at Spring Lake.

⛳ Fifth Is the New First – Montague finished runner-up at the Division 3 girls golf finals, and Whitehall was fifth. Reeths-Puffer (D2) and North Muskegon (D4) also took fifth. Grand Haven junior Colbie Livingston placed fifth individually in D1.

🏐 City Champs – Western Michigan Christian won the GMAA city volleyball title in five sets over Mona Shores, in its first season under a new coach.

🏒 Snap Out of It – The Lumberjacks beat Youngstown 5-2 Saturday to end a four-game winless skid, thanks to a Charbonneau hat trick.

Tuesday 67 🌡️ 41 | ☀️ | 0% | 💨 E to SW 5-10 kt
Wednesday 66 🌡️ 41 | 🌤️ | 0% | 💨 S to SW 10-15 kt
Thursday 67 🌡️ 42 | ☀️ | 5% | 💨 E to W 5-10 kt
Friday 68 🌡️ 43 | ☀️ | 10% | 💨 SE 5-15 kt
Saturday 68 🌡️ 44 | ☀️ | 10% | 💨 S 5-10 kt

🌊 Waves under 1 ft most of the week, around 1 ft Wednesday | 💧 Water low 50s

The verdict: Sixty-eight on Oct. 23 is not normal, so use it. Mornings start in the low 40s, so layer up for the bus stop and shed it by lunch. The lake stays flat all week, which makes it a good week to walk the pier.

Rake and Kirby House split the weekend, and the Frauenthal brings the Christian pop.

Friday, Oct 23
Frauenthal | Colton Dixon x Micah Tyler | 7 PM
Rake Beer Project | Dog Skull, Potionseller, Low Phase, RTNR | 8 PM, $10
Kirby House | Jake Stevens | 9 PM-12:30 AM

Saturday, Oct 24
Rake Beer Project | Not Made For Angels, Swandrive, No Skull, Inolonger | 8 PM, $10
Kirby House | Sophia McIntosh & The Sages | 9 PM-12:30 AM

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE

Ninety-seven years ago Thursday, the car ferry SS Milwaukee left its namesake city with a load of railroad cars, bound for its home dock in Grand Haven. A gale was already tearing up Lake Michigan, and the ferry had no radio. It never made it, and no one aboard survived. Days later, a Coast Guard surfman found the ship’s message case on the Michigan shore. Inside was a note from the purser, Richard Sadon of Grand Haven, saying the ship was taking on water fast and “things look bad.” Divers didn’t find the wreck until 1972, upright in about 120 feet of water off Milwaukee. The ferry that replaced it, the City of Milwaukee, still sits docked in Manistee.

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Thanks for reading. If you make it to the Third Street Wharf tonight, tell them where you want the kayak launch. The city’s been working on this since the mall came down in 2003. See you Friday.