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Lady Vikings win 3 straight sets to beat Calvin Christian

It isn't very often when Hopkins is able to beat Grandville Calvin Christian on the volleyball court, but the Lady Vikings turned the trick Thursday night in an O-K Silver…

Editor September 29, 2017

Columns

Yes It Is, It’s True: A (sort of) eulogy for good guy Tom Hooker

"When you coming home, I don't know when, but we'll get together then... Gonna have a good time then." — Harry Chapin, "Cat's in the Cradle," 1974 The passing this week…

Editor September 29, 2017

Features

Wayland Middle School has 22 singers in regional choir

Twenty-two members of the Wayland Union Middle School Choir have been accepted into the Michigan School Vocal Music Association Regional Honors Choir after auditions. They will perform at the Regional…

Editor September 29, 2017

Articles

Amicus brief for casino narrowly OK’d in Dorr, Leighton

The Gun Lake Tribe, Wayland Township and the Gun Lake Casino has received interesting responses to their request from neighboring governments to file an amicus brief on their behalf in…

Editor September 28, 2017

Articles

Officer Bernard Austof now is deputy for Leighton, Dorr

Bernard Austof, the police officer who came to Wayland to succeed Harry Werkema as public safety officer for Wayland schools in September 2014, now is serving as Allegan County's Sheriff's…

Editor September 28, 2017

Articles

Sewer, water won’t be part of 18th Street project in Dorr

A topic that seven years ago launched an ill-fated but lingering cloud of a recall came innocently enough to the Dorr Township Board meeting Thursday evening, but it went nowhere.…

Editor September 28, 2017

Columns

Army Bob: Old media unraveling after Trump victory

“How Matt Drudge became the pipeline for Russian propaganda” — Media Matters Quite frankly I am starting to worry; the Media Matters folks are now saying the Drudge Report and…

Editor September 28, 2017

Articles

Wayland schools entering home stretch of bond campaign

A $19.25 million bond issue will face Wayland school district voters in a little more than a month and school officials have been preparing for the stretch run of their…

Editor September 28, 2017

Sports

Vikings hang on to 2nd in both girls’, boys’ races

The Hopkins boys’ and girls’ cross-country teams again took second in the second O-K Silver Conference jamboree of the season Wednesday at the South Christian athletic fields. This time the…

Editor September 27, 2017

Features

Bygone Days: A look at the history of NE Allegan County

(From the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — Sept. 30, 1992 Hopkins voters turned down the latest bond proposal to build…

Editor September 27, 2017