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Vikings lose season finale to undefeated Kelloggsville

The Hopkins High School varsity football team concluded its season Friday night with a 4-5 overall record. The Vikings lost 34-14 to undefeated Kelloggsville and it was noted that all…

Editor October 20, 2017

Sports

Rylee Cronkright is runner-up at Allegan County meet

Wayland girls finished fourth and Hopkins fifth Friday afternoon in the annual Allegan County cross-country meet at the Martin Motor Sports Park. Otsego was the county champion in the girls’…

Editor October 20, 2017

Sports

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,…

Editor October 20, 2017

Obituaries

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…

Editor October 20, 2017

Columns

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…

Editor October 20, 2017

Sports

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…

Editor October 20, 2017

Sports

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…

Editor October 19, 2017

Columns

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…

Editor October 19, 2017

Community Notices

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…

Editor October 19, 2017

Obituaries

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…

Editor October 19, 2017