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Health issues cause Dorr Plan Board chair’s absence

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Bob Wagner Bob Wagner, who has been a member of the Planning Commission since 1968 and its chairman since 1975, has been absent from the last four meetings, from August through November because of health issues. There have been reports that Wagner underwent surgery and since then has been recuperating...
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Ten WHS students join Solo & Ensemble theater festival

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The Theater Solo and Ensemble festival 2023 took place Nov. 18 at Grand Valley State University and 10 Wayland High School students participated. The students learned two pieces and sang them in front of a judge. All of them received high ratings, including many ones and high twos. The students...
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Columns

Army Bob: Activists ignore world pollution elsewhere

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by Robert M. Traxler To take a walk down memory lane, some 30 years ago, the cause celeb was saving the Amazon Rain Forest. It was said that the plants or animals that would save the world were there, even the cure for cancer was to be found in the...
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Community Notices

Martin Resource Center food wagon closed Dec. 2

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The Martin Area Resource Center food wagon on 10th Street south of downtown Martin will not be in service Saturday, Dec. 2. Coordinator Harvey Visser has indicated he will be in Hudsonville instead for a father-son outing and Shari is in Chicago visiting friends. Anyone who finds themselves short of...
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Hopkins junior varsity softball coach announced

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Hopkins High School alum Madison Wyngarden is being welcomed as new junior varsity softball coach at her alma mater. “She’s one of my alumni players and now we are fortunate  to have her on our coaching staff,” said head Viking softball coach Amy Funk. Wyngarden said, “My softball career started...
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Articles

Dorr Twp. may offer music concerts next summer

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Patty Williams Dorr Township next year may join the growing popularity of local evening music summer concerts. The Township Board Thursday evening was approached by Patty Williams of the Williams Family Band, who does a lot of promotion and planning for family-style concerts. She proposed having Wednesday evening “Sounds of...
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Martin School Board trustee resigning Dec. 1

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Martin Board of Education Trustee Austin Marsman has announced he is resigning his post effective Dec. 1. Marsman, a graduate of Martin High School, was elected to the board in 2020 and still has one year left on his four-year term He is the second Martin school board member to...
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Leighton Twp. business earns state grant to expand

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Walinga USA, which only recently won entry into an industrial development district in Leighton Township, has announced intention to expand its business. The project has been granted a $168,000 Micro Michigan Business Development Program grant. The company, which makes pneumatic transportation systems and feed trailers, is seeing an increase in...
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Dorr Township Fire Dept. receives home made quilts

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Dorr Township Fire Chief Gary Fordham recently welcomed an early box of Christmas spirit on his desk. A big box of warm home-made quilts was donated to the Dorr Fire Department for use in winter emergencies when victims of accidents and fires are force suddenly into the winter weather. “With...
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Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County

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(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — Nov. 30, 1998 The Hopkins High School football team lost in the Class CC football state semifinals, 36-19 to Montrose. The Vikings led 19-16 at halftime, but things went south after intermission....
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