Month: July 2021

Columns

Army Bob: Is vote reform really more Jim Crow?

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by Robert M. Traxler Jim Crow on steroids? Any law the wonks and cancel culture disagree with. We keep hearing references to any voting law that reverts to the law before the last election and the COVID-19 “emergency changes to voting laws” as Jim Crow on steroids. Our president said...
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Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County

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(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — July 22, 1996 The Wayland High School varsity baseball team, 1905. Wayland City and Township officials are finding disagreement in the arrangements for trading fire services for Elmwood Cemetery use. And now...
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‘Dog author’ to be guest Monday at Hopkins Library

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Author D.M Greenwald will be guest presenter at the Hopkins District Library at 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 26. Greenwald, author of several titles, but he will speak specifically about the Jenny Dog and the Son of Light series, a grouping of books ideal for teens, young adults and adults of...
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Community Notices

Abductor of Hopkins girl given 11-year prison term

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Charles Morancey, 45, of Rhode Island has been sentenced to 11 years and two months in prison followed by 20 years of supervised release after pleading guilty to luring a 15-year-old Hopkins girl from her home and sexually assaulting her. Morancey pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court November 2019 to...
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Dorr Township North Park bathroom vandals sought

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Dorr Townhip Parks Commission members are seeking more information on these two in connection with bathroom vandalism. The bathrooms at the North Park Pavilion in Dorr Township will be closed until further notice as the result of vandalism. A Parks Commission spokesperson said, "We will have to clean up the...
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Articles

Dorr’s visioning meeting brings out hopes and fears

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About 20 people appeared at the Dorr visioning meeting, but most were local officials. The special meeting of the Dorr Township Planning Commission Tuesday turned out to be a contest between “what we’d like to see” and “what we fear will actually happen.” The battle was the result of a...
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Sports

Martin Public Schools has new director of athletics

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The Martin Board of Education Monday evening voted to hire Tyler Whitcomb as director of athletics and operations. Whitcomb, who succeeds Robert VandenBerg, who retired at the end of the 2020-21 academic year, has 18 years of extensive experience in interscholastic athletics: • Athletic Director/boys varsity basketball coach, West Michigan...
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This week’s column is brought to you by letter P

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The letter P is so phenomenal.  I mean, have you ever considered all the happy words that have the letter P in them? My keyboard recently could not perform to it’s perfectionist self.  I had never thought of what a perfectionist my keyboard was until it suddenly kept performing the...
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Services will be Saturday for Jerry Genther of Dorr

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Jerry Genther, age 80, died at home surrounded by his family and his dog, Katie, Sunday, July 18. Jerry had a love for everything outdoors, including hunting, trapping, and spending time at the cabin in Leota, Mich. He enjoyed gun-smithing, rebuilding guns, going to shows, and collecting his own. In...
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Columns

One Small Voice: In search of the right guy, right time

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“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under Heaven.” — Ecclesiastes 3:1 KJV by Lynn Mandaville I’ve long held the personal theory that presidents, even the “bad” ones, serve a purpose in the big picture of the great American experiment. It’s important here to note that...
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