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Of Wildcats’ 5 straight losses, 4 were to playoff teams
Wayland was 3-1 in Week 4 of the football season and lost five in a row to finish at 3-6. But four of the five losses were to playoff teams,…
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Funeral Monday for lifetime Hopkins man Harvey Hazen
Harvey G. Hazen, age 92, died, Wednesday, Oct. 18. Harvey grew up on a farm in Hopkins and celebrated 51 years of marriage to Eleanor Goeree. They raised three children. They…
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Basura: Trump’s call to Sgt. Johnson’s widow ‘oafish’
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This isn’t what I wanted to be writing. I had in mind something about coaching youth soccer at an elementary school. Maybe that’ll still happen. But I can’t…
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Hopkins now 5-1 in Silver after completing 1st round
The Hopkins varsity volleyball team has completed the first round of competition in the O-K Silver Conference this season with a 5-1 record. The Lady Vikings' only loss in league…
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WHS grad guides Colorado teams to another state meet
Wayland High School graduate Robby Young (wearing cap) talks things over with his Rampart High School girls' varsity cross-country team just before the regionals Thursday afternoon in Colorado. The Lady…
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Yes It Is, It’s True: It’s hard to applaud when abandoned
“I got a letterman's sweater with the letter in front I got for football and track. I'm proud to wear it now When I cruise around the other parts of the town, I…
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Woman gets 90 days, probation in Wayland Twp. fatal
Alyssa Kay Stark, 21, the North Carolina woman who was driving the vehicle in a fatal crash March 19 in Wayland Township will spend 90 days in jail. Stark received…
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WHS grad Bernadette Lemons Jurries dies at 68
Bernadette Lemons Jurries, 68, of Byron Center, a 1967 graduate of Wayland High School, died Oct. 10. She was born on June 28, 1949, to Harold and Lillia Lemons in Boyne…
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One Small Voice: NRA members should call out leaders
Back when I was in college in 1969, part of my liberal arts curriculum required two semesters of physical education. Never terribly athletic, I was pleased to see that one…
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Army Bob: Can we be jailed for using the wrong pronoun?
A headline from the Associated Press read “California criminalizes speech;” the AP story reported: “Violators of the provisions in the law could be charged with a misdemeanor, meaning that they…