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Lady Vikings shut out Hamilton for nonleague victory

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The Hopkins varsity softball team improved its overall season record to 13-9 Friday with a 4-0 shutout victory over Hamilton. Kelsey Dusseau threw five scoreless innings, gave up five hits, two walks and struck out one. Newcomer Maddie Schans tossed two clean innings except for a walk in relief. Offensively, Makayla Bulich had...
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Lady Vikings finish 3rd in the Division 3 regional meet

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The Hopkins girls’ varsity track team took third place among 13 teams in the regional meet at Saugatuck and the boys were ninth. The Lady Vikings scored 84 team points. Saugatuck ran away with the meet with 168 points and Grand Rapids West Catholic was runner-up with 96. The boys...
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Basura: Appreciation of the Cottage Bar on its 90th birthday

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"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so." — Robert Green Ingersoll Today is the 90th birthday of the Cottage Bar. I’m old, but not that old. My familiarity...
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Martin forced to forfeit doubleheader at Barry County Christian

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Martin's baseball team was forced to forfeit two more games Thursday, this time against Barry County Christian in Hastings "We had eligibility problems, something we have had to deal with all season," said coach Jon Gambee, "and we had one player sick and another player who had to miss because...
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Border Wars revived on the baseball diamond Friday

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Hopkins and Wayland met for four years on the gridiron in what was called "Border Wars," in an effort to generate interest from residents in the neighboring communities. The two teams played for four consecutive seasons to huge crowds to start the football season and the last one was a...
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Army Bob: Trump merely highlights trust issues with media

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President Donald Trump did not cause the trust issue with the media, he highlighted it. The American media, the self-proclaimed royalty of our nation, wined and dined and bribed by the political class, were exposed by WikiLeaks. The Democratic National Committee was laid bare in WikiLeaks; true to form, the...
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WHS foreign exchange student wins regional tennis title

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Wayland High School's No. 1 singles tennis player Elena Campon, a foreign exchange student from Spain, won the Division 2 regional singles championship Thursday and has qualified for the Division 2 state finals next month. She defeated her Middleville Thornapple Kellogg opponent in the finals, 6-4, 6-4. "It's been a...
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Middle School to present ‘A Mixed Up Fairy Tale’ Friday

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Wayland Middle School seventh- and eighth-graders will perform the play “Mixed Up Fairy Tale,” by Susanna Hargreaves at 7 p.m. Friday, May 19, in the WMS Cafetorium. It’s a story about fairy tales that get utterly mixed up. Cinderella’s desperately trying to get to the royal ball, but somehow she’s...
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U.S. Supreme Court to hear Gun Lake Casino’s Patchak case

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The U.S. Supreme Court this week agreed to hear a long-running case affecting the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians, also known as the Gun Lake Tribe. The web site indianz.com said the action threatens to undermine the status of the tribe's successful gaming facility just three miles south of Wayland. Tribal leaders had...
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Lady Wildcats score 3rd straight victory in 8-0 verdict

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The Wayland girls' soccer team captured its third straight victory Wednesday night with an 8-0 triumph over Wyoming. The game lasted for only a half, halted by the mercy rule. Wildcat goals were scored by Mckenna Bruin (3), Brinley Nieuwenhuis, Ashlyn Schafer (2), Hannah Henney, and Kennedy Thelen. Assists went...
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