Month: February 2017

Lady Vikings dare upset attempt, but fall to Tri-Unity

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The Hopkins girls’ varsity basketball team lost 48-35 Friday night to a Tri-Unity Christian squad that entered the contest with an 11-3 overall record. Whether its was a good defensive night for the Lady Vikings or a bad offensive night for Tri-Unity was an open question. What wasn’t an open...
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Tri-Unity Christian halts Vikings’ 4-game winning streak

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A slow start on the offensive end of the court and a collapse of same in the late third and early fourth quarters doomed Hopkins and its four-game winning streak on the basketball court. The Vikings lost 53-48 to visiting Wyoming Tri-Unity Christian and saw their overall season record slip...
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Sydney Urben sets records in Lady Wildcats’ shutout win

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Junior standout Sydney Urben broke the school and league record for individual game score, highlighting a 30-0 shutout triumph for Wayland Wednesday over Middleville Thornapple Kellogg. Urben's 279 eclipsed by one pin the previous record set by Tori Gaskall in the O-KGold/Green Conference. She not only broke single game, but...
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Viking boys now 13-2 overall on lanes; girls are 12-3

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The Hopkins boys’ and girls’ bowling teams both have racked up impressive dual match records this season thus far. The boys now are 13-2 overall and the Lady Vikings are 12-3. Hopkins boys defeated Calvin Christian 17-13 Wednesday and took down Northpointe Christian Wyoming Godwin Heights 20-10 before that. The...
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Leighton Township budget hearing will be March 9

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The Leighton Township Board has scheduled a public hearing on the fiscal year 2017-18 budget for 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 9. The board will have a special workshop on the proposed budget at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15, at the township hall. In other business at Thursday night’s meeting, the...
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Leighton Plan Commission vote tied on air park question

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The Leighton Township Planning Commission was deadlocked in a 2-2 vote Wednesday night on whether to accept or reject a resolution on a proposed air strip near the corner of 144th Avenue and Kalamazoo Avenue. John Hooker, who represents the Township Board on the commission, told his colleagues Thursday night that...
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Wayland Community Quilters group being organized

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The Wayland Community Quilters have organized to make quilts for those in need. The group's first project is making lap quilts for patients at the Wings Home in Allegan, a project of the Wings of Hope Hospice. Wings Home serves those at the end of life in a home setting,...
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Gun Lake Tribe, Casino sponsor electronic recycling

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The Gun Lake Tribe and Gun Lake Casino have announced the next local electronics recycling event will be offered from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27, at the Tribe’s government campus headquarters near the casino. A $10 fee to recycle tube-style television and computer monitors will be sponsored by...
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After so much bad news, Army Bob gets good prognosis

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The prostate cancer tests are all in: PSA test, DRE, biopsy, X-ray, bone scan, CT scan, all the data the doctor needs to make his diagnosis and develop a treatment plan, designed to treat the cancer. The bone scan, CT Scan and X-Ray can determine if it has spread and...
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Sycamore Elementary named by state as Reward School

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Sycamore Elementary School, part of the Hopkins Public School District, has been identified as a Reward School by the Michigan Department of Education. A Reward School is one that has achieved one or more of the following distinctions: top 5% of schools on the Top-to-Bottom School Rankings, top 5% of...
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