Month: April 2024

Hopkins girls 5th, boys 7th in track meet at Hastings

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Kambria Moored The Hopkins girls’ track team checked in fifth and boys seventh in the Hastings Relays Friday afternoon. The girls scored 751 team points and the boys 603. Hudsonville won both of the competitions. The Lady Vikings fared well in the sprints. Sophomore sprinter Riley Homrich took first place...
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Gusty winds follow rains, cause scattered outages

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The rains subsided Friday, but high winds of between 40 and 50 miles per hour kicked in afterward, causing scattered power outages and the downing of tree limbs. This one at left made traveling on a rural back road somewhat challenging for motorists. The Yankee Springs Township Fire Department reported...
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Funeral mass is Tuesday for Joyce Nausieda, 89

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Joyce Elaine Nausieda (Chrisman), age 89, died Wednesday, April 10. Joyce Elaine was a woman of strong faith, a spirited woman who was very generous and always helping those with a need. She and her late husband, Bill, were beautiful dancers. They would travel to polka festivals near and far....
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Leighton Twp. has quasi hearing on air strip PUD

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Clark Galloway The Leighton Township Board Thursday evening held a public hearing on the Galloway Landings air park project expansion, but only took comments from four residents and made no decision. Township Supervisor Steve Wolbrink said it would be illegal for the board to vote on the Planning Commission’s recommendation...
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Funeral will be Monday for Beverly Caywood of Dorr

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Beverly Jean Caywood (nee Brenner) died Tuesday, April 9. She was 87. Born on Oct. 3, 1936, in Allegan, Beverly walked through life with a spirit of gratitude, embodying the virtues of a Proverbs 31 woman as a dedicated and loving homemaker. Her love for God's creation was evident in...
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Leighton Twp. to ask for millage renewals, increases

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Perhaps the biggest downside of population growth in any town, village, city or township is the inevitable need to raise taxes to handle growing needs. Leighton Township officials were burdened with this lesson Thursday night in a discussion about putting millage proposals on the August primary election ballot Aug. 6....
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Yes It’s True: Politicians get lots of free positive press

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EDITOR'S NOTE: I wrote this column about a half dozen years ago. I believe it's still relevant today. Long ago, but not far away, the late, great Wayland Globe Editor and Publisher Irvin P. Helmey taught me a lesson about cropping pictures that I’ve never forgotten. It must have been...
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Army Bob: Free speech or what’s politically correct?

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by Robert M. Traxler It is despicable to stand in Dearborn, Michigan, while shouting and chanting “Death to America, Death to Israel, they are Nazis, From the River to the Sea, Genocide Joe has got to go” and Free Palestine” during a celebration of the founding of the International Al-Quds...
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WHS grad wins political science scholarship

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Wayland High School graduate Dahlia Terry has received a $1,000 scholarship from the Judith & Thomas Donahue/ Capital Company Endowed Scholarship in Political Science. It is awarded to junior level political science students with at least a 3.0 grade point average. It's given to students who are most involved in...
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Jim DeYoung to succeed Jack Sipple for Martin

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Jim DeYoung Self-employed businessman and farmer Jim DeYoung Wednesday night was appointed to fill a Martin Township Board vacancy left by the retirement of Jack Sipple. Simple, the longest serving elected official in Michigan, had been a Martin Township Board trustee since being appointed in 1969. He was elected to...
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