Hopkins came up big in a showdown for second place in the O-K Silver Conference by winning at home Monday, 71-54 over NorthPointe Christian. The Vikings, now 13-4 overall and 8-2 in the league standings, will have a makeup rematch at NorthPointe Thursday. Wyoming Godwin Heights has clinched at least a share of yet another […]
Hopkins and NorthPointe Christian will meet at the Hopkins gym Wednesday night in a makeup girls’ basketball contest that likely will decide this year’s O-K Silver Conference champion. The Lady Vikings took a big step toward repeating as league champs Monday in the first of two makups by coming up with a huge 53-47 victory
The Hopkins boys’ bowling team is closing in on an undefeated regular season and has clinched its third straight O-K Silver Conference championship. Meanwhile, Kennedy Gill Monday afternoon added even more excitement as the Lady Vikings and the guys bowled their last match this year at Brewhouse Lanes in Dorr. Both teams defeated Kelloggsville, the
ACHTUNG: This is not a “fair and balanced” story. It is an editorial by the editor. The dictionary on this computer defines backsliding as “relapse into bad ways or error.” I hereby accuse the Wayland City Council of doing just that. In bygone days, too many council members were socializing in the back room, away
Though 56% of voters last November approved a state-wide ballot issue legalizing recreational marijuana, virtually all local municipalities have been voting to opt out of permitting the buying and selling of the substance until the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) provides guidelines. The City of Wayland was the latest in northeast Allegan
The Wayland boys and Wayland girls perhaps couldn’t have done any worse in their Class B district tournament draws this year. Both will face thus far undefeated opponents in the first round. The Wayland boys will be at Comstock at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25, to take on an Otsego squad that hasn’t lost yet
Question: When is a door not a door? Answer: When it’s ajar. Question: When is a national emergency not a national emergency? Answer: When it’s a lie. The first Q & A is what we call a riddle. It’s a form of humor, one that we often undervalue because the play on words can be
Moline native Martin Boersma died Friday at the age of 85. Born in Moline in 1933 to Marcus and Martina (Schans) Boersma, the ninth of 11 children, after graduating from Grand Rapids Christian High School, he served in the US Army. He married his high school sweetheart, Barbara Keegstra, his wife of 63 years, who
Wayland senior bowlers Amber Beggs and Dillon Smith are members of the O-K-Gold and Green Conference all-star team. Beggs finished seventh in the league over the season with an individual per-game average of 158.7. Smith placed seventh as well, with an average of 192.4. The Lady Wildcats ended up eighth in the conference tournament out
Our most persistent disease, one that just won’t go away, is not influenza, a cold, cancer, diabetes or so many other popular maladies. It is racism. It also is perhaps the disease with an existence most often denied, most often attempted to be explained away, and most often marginalized. America hasn’t dealt with racism in
