April 2016 – Page 5

Retired farm implement dealer Vern Alflen dies at 94

Vernon J. Alflen, age 94, died Monday, April 25, at Byron Manor-Meadow Place. Vern owned the Alflen Bros. Farm Implement dealership in Wayland, and at one time was said to…

Editor April 25, 2016

Features

Hopkins FFA members clean up Poplar Hill Cemetery

Members of the Hopkins chapter of the FFA last weekend did a cleanup of the Polar Hill Cemetery in Monterey Township. The FFA performed the work as part of a…

Editor April 25, 2016

Sports

Wildcats place 4th in Frank Grimm Relays at Wyoming

The Wayland boys' track team finished fourth in the upper division competition of the 50th annual Frank Grimm Relays Saturday. Performing well for the Wildcats were thrower Macarty Carpenter, hurdler…

Editor April 25, 2016

Sports

Teunissen, Obetts help Davenport take over 1st in WHAC

Former Lady Wildcat Mallory Teunissen pitched and won the second game of a doubleheader against the University of Michigan-Dearborn over the weekend, enabling Davenport to take over first place in…

Editor April 25, 2016

Sports

Lady Wildcats take 5th in Grimm Relays at Wyoming

The Wayland girls' track team finished fifth Saturday at the 50th annual Frank Grimm Relays at Wyoming High School. Zeeland West won the meet and Rockford was runner-up. The dynamic…

Editor April 25, 2016

Columns

Monday Moanin’: God’s love In the time of bathroom bills

by Jennifer Bailey, Sojourners As a clergywoman, I find myself most troubled by the fact the sponsors of these laws often do so in the name of protecting Christianity. Is…

Editor April 24, 2016

Columns

The Muck Starts Here: Observations, and more complaints

by Barry Hastings It's clearly a major problem. Our already filthy-rich drug-making corporations ("Medicine is what they do"), are very deeply involved in the tsunami of opiates/opioids (as you will),…

Editor April 24, 2016

Columns

Army Bob: We ignore news about North Korea at our peril

by Robert M. Traxler CNN online, hardly a right wing news outlet, announced Saturday that the Peoples’ Republic of Korea (North Korea) fired a BM-25 Taepodong X intermediate range missile…

Editor April 24, 2016

Sports

Portland’s final inning 3-run rally edges Wildcats, 7-6

Portland rallied for three runs in the bottom of the final inning to come from behind and edge Wayland 7-6 in both team’s second game of the Denny Richardson Baseball…

Editor April 23, 2016

Columns

Democracy Tree: Legislator wants to end cruel child punishment

“Seclusion in schools is a dangerous and unregulated practice that puts children at risk of harm.” — Mark McWilliams, Director of Information, Referral and Education Services at Michigan Protection & Advocacy…

Editor April 23, 2016