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Basura: How about allowing Emotional Support Guns?
"Happiness is a Warm Gun" — The Beatles I noticed a lot of dogs Saturday while flying home from Mexico. These weren’t service animals, leader dogs for the blind, for…
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Ranger Rick: Ban ‘Gun-Free Zones’ instead of guns
This is reality. This is in your face. This is how it is. Everywhere there is a “Gun Free Zone” sign, take it down, remove it NOW! You are encouraging…
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Celebration of Life June 8 for Sandra Harrison, 75
Sandra Lee Harrison, 75, of Wayland, died after a lengthy illness Wednesday March 21, at her winter home in St James City, Fla. Sandy was born Aug. 19, 1942, in…
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Clippers’ sweep debuts another homeless season
by Austin Marsman The Martin baseball team posted its first victories in the season opener over Potter's House Monday for the start of another "homeless" campaign. The Clippers won the…
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Bond project sketches shown to Wayland school board
Members of the Wayland Board of Education Monday evening saw and heard presentations from Tower Pinkster architects about plans for the sixth-grade addition to the middle school. The plans made…
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Zeeland East spoils WHS baseball coach’s debut
The Wayland varsity baseball team opened the season Friday with an 11-0 loss in five innings to non-conference opponent Zeeland East. The Chix erupted for 10 runs in the third…
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Funeral Thursday for Todd Lull, formerly of Hopkins
Todd Spencer Lull, 55, of Plainwell, formerly of Hopkins, died Saturday, March 24, at his home. Born May 29, 1962, in Grand Rapids, he was the son of Marrion Joyce…
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Will we let term-limited politicians hook us again?
"The last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it." — Rodney Dangerfield Perhaps the three most consequential political lies perpetrated on and believed by…
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Oregon ends hoops season for Presley Hudson, CMU
Central Michigan University's finest women's basketball season came to an end Saturday in Spokane, Wash., in the regional semifinals of the NCAA tournament. The Chippewas, seeded No. 11, lost to…
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Some area citizens join gun violence protest march
Some area citizens joined the estimated 4,000 people who took part in the "March for Our Lives" Saturday in Grand Rapids. The city was one of more than 800 sites…