Month: November 2022

Martin to play Merrill in Superior Dome state finals

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Coach Brad Blauvelt, wife and daughter look forward to their bus trip next weekend. The Martin varsity football team punched its ticket for the MHSAA Division 1 eight-man football state championship game at the Superior Dome in Marquette next Saturday. The Clippers got the job done Saturday afternoon on their...
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Standout Wildcat guard to play college hoops at Olivet

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Mady Terry Wayland High School senior point guard Mady Terry has announced this week she has decided to continue her basketball career at Olivet College next year. A four-year varsity letter winner, the hard-working guard has been a solid outside shooter and ball handler for the Wildcats.
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Allegan County broadband project is moving forward

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The Allegan County Internet broadband project make a step forward Thursday when the County Board of Commissioners awarded a $17.7 million contract to 123.net of Southfield to provide wired broadband infrastructure and service to some 12,000 unserved addresses that don’t have access to download speeds of over 100mb.  Broadband Project...
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Allegan County still red, but not so for most of Michigan

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Allegan County: We like the way things are around here. Let’s keep it that way. Vote Republican.” — A winning political strategy for more than a century Composer Gustav Mahler wrote what I believe to be the longest piece of instrumental music ever, Symphony No. 3, “What the Universe Tells...
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Hopkins ‘Fly Girl’ earns Air Force ‘Airman’ certification

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Hopkins High School graduate Sara Velderman has completed her U.S. Air Force basic training in Texas and now is certified as "Airman." The daughter of John and Renee Murphy Velderman, she already has earned her pilot’s license while in high school. Dubbed by Townbroadcast as "Fly Girl," she is flanked...
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Driver of car that leaped overpass gets no jail time

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The Comstock Park man whose car spectacularly leaped over the Dorr U.S.-131 expressway overpass last Jan. 13 will not be ordered to spend any time in jail. Chandler Cockerham, then 25, was sentenced Thursday to a year of probation and ordered to participate in an outpatient rehabilitation program. Cockerham’s vehicle...
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Allegan County Sheriff’s Dept. finds missing teen safe

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Allegan County Sheriff’s deputieshad been looking for a missing 14-year-old who was last seen Thursday afternoon in Salem Township, but he he has been found safe. Deputies were asking the public for help in finding Curran Edward Putnam, whose whereabouts is unknown since about 2:45 p.m. Thursday on 137th Avenue...
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Leighton Township buys 4.6-acre adjacent parcel

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Travis Masselink The Leighton Township Board Thursday night decided to buy a 4.6-acre parcel of land adjacent to the township hall for $335,000. Board members unanimously agreed to the purchase of land at 4444 S. Division, next door to the township hall and library complex located on 12th Street in...
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Memorial luncheon slated Saturday for Frances Tuttle

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Frances E. Tuttle, 86, of Hopkins died Oct. 24 in Wyoming, Mich., after a series of health complications. Born July 18, 1936, in Grand Rapids to Royal and Helen (Beebe) Daugherty, she moved to Hopkins in 1962 and married William Tuttle on Nov. 2 of that year. William died in...
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St. Therese, Sts. Cyril pastor now an American citizen

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The Rev. Fr. Evelio Ramirez, pastor of Sts. Cyril & Methodius and St. Therese parishes at Gun Lake and Wayland, has become a naturalized American citizen. Ramirez has been serving the two local churches for the past two years. He came from St. Joseph Catholic Church in Kalamazoo and is...
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