Year: 2025

by Kathy Hamman Miller Ingredients: 3 to 4 pound frozen Chuck Roast to fit your slow cooker Worcestershire Sauce 1 - .87 packet brown gravy mix 1 packet recipe secrets…

The Yankee Springs Township Fire Department is asking motorists to avoid M-179 near the Curly Cone restaurant. A Consumers Power utility pole came down Sunday just west of the Cone…

Hopkins’ hopes for a berth in the post-season high school football playoffs rest on next Friday’s outcome against O-K Silver rival Fruitport. The Vikings absorbed a 21-7 defeat at the…

Otsego dominated among females and Saugatuck led the way for guys in the annual Allegan County cross-country meet Friday at the U.S.-131 motorsports Park near Martin. Local teams were Martin…

Hopkins and three other schools have their sights set on the O-K Silver Conference volleyball championship at the league meet Saturday, Oct. 25, at Wyoming Godwin Heights. The Vikings will…

Donald Robert Marston, age 82, died Tuesday, Oct. 14. Don was preceded in death by his sons, Donald Marston Jr. and Allen Marston; parents Travis and Ruth Marston; and brother,…

Coach John Wamhoff and his Hopkins senior harriers The Hopkins High School boys’ cross-country squad followed a season-long tradition Wednesday by taking second in the team standings and second individually…

Madison Bomhoffer (left) and Abree VanDenBrink The Wayland High School girls’ cross-country team finished third Wednesday in the O-K Gold Conference jamboree at Riverside Park in Grand Rapids, only four…

(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr): 25 Years Ago — Oct. 16, 2000 The City of Wayland’s first-ever stoplight with a left-turn…

Longtime Wayland High School softball coach Cheri Ritz this week was inducted into the Grand Rapids Area Athletic Hall of Fame this week in a special ceremony. She becomes the…