Month: April 2018

Ranger Rick: Trump fights Cloward-Piven takeover

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Below is the classic socialist strategy to turn a productive, growing, healthy capitalist system into a pile of dung. My liberal friends in this publication excoriate me by my insistence President Barack Obama (and to some extent the three presidents before him) helped in slowly crippling this country. For those...
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These are this year’s April showers that bring…

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As someone said this morning, "This not supposed to be what they mean when they talk about April Showers." It's April 17 and some Wayland school district parents suggested schools should have been closed because of icy road conditions. Shown here in a photo from Michelle Miller-Spicer is traffic backup...
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Service Saturday for Hazel P. Anderson, 97, of Dorr

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Services for Hazel P. Anderson of Dorr will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 21, at the Old Time Methodist Church 5590 Whittenyville Ave. Alto Hazel Pearl Powers Anderson was born Sept 8, 1920, in Ovine, Tenn, and died March 22 in Grand Rapids. Daughter of James Henry and Rebeecka...
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Lumberyard Events owners asked to be at city meeting

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  The Wayland City Council wants owners Mark and Marty Shepard to attend the next meeting  May 7 to answer questions about parking requirements for their new Lumberyard Events Center at the corner of Railroad and Maple streets. The Shepards and city officials have been working on meeting a mandate...
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The Subterranean: ‘Ready Player One’ fun with gaming

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Review of Ready Player One *** 1/2 out of five stars Currently in theaters “Shall we play a game?” — Joshua, the AI, in WarGames (1983) by Walter G. Tarrow Ready Player One from Steven Spielberg is The Goonies (1985) for gamers (as a reminder, Spielberg wrote the story for...
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Basura: So my dad’s tougher than your dad

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“Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.” — George Santayana, philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist Coming home from second grade in Allen Park, Mich., I got into a childish argument with another kid. She...
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Yes It Is It’s True: United we stand, but divided we fall

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A funny thing happened on the way home from the forum Tuesday night. I came to the painfully obvious conclusion that the United States of America really is a house divided, that Lincoln said more than 150 years ago cannot stand. And I really don't think change is on the...
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Wayland Robotics team #6090 qualifies for Worlds

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Team #6090, Wayland Wildcat Robotics has qualified for FIRST Worlds Championship and will be heading to Detroit April 25-28. A team spokesperson said, "Our robot held up awesome to the relentless competition during States this weekend and is ready to be challenged to take on Worlds! Proud of our dedicated team...
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Weekend woes with wild, wet, windy wintery weather

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It was indeed a wet and wild weekend, as lot of rain, gusty winds, snow. ice and sleet visited West Michigan in the middle of April. An unusual sight was the city snow removal vehicle moving up and down Main Street Sunday afternoon and somebody on Facebook said all of...
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Landing Marina limited to 6 boat slips on S. Gun Lake

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by Austin Marsman Lucas Spoor At least 100 people attended a public Michigan Department of Environmental Quality hearing Wednesday on a marina expansion request for 30 slips and a boat launch on Gun Lake. Lucas Spoor, owner of the Landing Marina, sought to expand the number of slips from 17...
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