Castle Blog

In 2024 the First Day of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, starts at sundown on December 25 – which coincides with Christmas Day....

The 1976 holiday shopping season offered Saginaw shoppers new department store dining destinations –  two restaurants in the transformed...

“Wanted a thoroughly competent cook – Call between 10 and 12 a.m., 421 North Washington Avenue. The highest wages will be paid to a cook...

A few weeks ago, we paid a visit to Saginaw’s State Street Kroger. When it opened on February 29, 1956, advertising promoted it as “a...

“On a cold November day in 1894, a group of high school boys proudly wearing the red and yellow colors of Saginaw West Side High School...

“More than 200 Sears, Roebuck and Co. Employees and guests will participate in the ground-breaking ceremony for the new Sears retail...

The Castle Test Kitchen recently took a closer look at First Congregational Church in downtown Saginaw, highlighting the sanctuary’s...

The opening of the Bancroft Hotel in 1859 announced to the outside world that East Saginaw was a real place – more than a spot on the...

Saginaw Paint Manufacturing was established in May 1937. In 1940, the firm constructed a new factory at 344 W. Genesee where it operated...