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Mitten of Gun Lake distributes more than 400 free pizzas

Mitten Pizza last Wednesday distributed 422 free pizzas, celebrating one year of serving Gun Lake and surrounding communities. People eager to bring home a free pizza waited in a long line, some…

Editor August 20, 2017

Sports

Wayland lad records 1st hole-in-one at a tender age

Tyler Omness, son of Wayland High School Assistant Principal Mike Omness, this past weekend scored his first-ever hole-in-one. He was golfing on the par three 15th hole at the Orchard…

Editor August 20, 2017

Sports

Vikings volleyball team unbeaten at Lawton Invitational

The Hopkins varsity volleyball team opened its season on solid footing by taking runner-up honors Saturday at the Lawton Invitational. Hopkins defeated Fennville 21-16, 21-9; split with Comstock 20-21, 21-14…

Editor August 20, 2017

Community Notices

WHS grad, fiance` seriously injured in traffic crash

Wayland High School graduate Jaime Laisure has been released from a Kalamazoo hospital after she and her fiancé, Paul Miller, also a WHS grad, suffered injuries in a serious traffic…

Editor August 20, 2017

Community Notices

Holland woman who drowned in Selkirk Lake identified

A woman drowned in Selkirk Lake Saturday night while swimming with another woman near a residence on the lake. Allegan County Sheriff's authorities arrived at the just after 11 p.m. at…

Editor August 20, 2017

Sports

Viking boys’ soccer team posts shutout win in opener

The Hopkins boys' varsity soccer team opened its season with a 3-0 victory over Kenowa Hills Saturday. Hunter Lahaie scored two goals and Brad Lowery added the other. Jesse Dykstra, Elliot Fair…

Editor August 19, 2017

Sports

Lady Wildcat volleyball frosh cop Comstock tourney title

The Wayland High School freshman volleyball squad got off to a fast start to the 2017 season by claiming the championship Friday in the Comstock Invitational. The Lady Wildcats defeated…

Editor August 19, 2017

Obituaries

Service is Tuesday for longtime Hopkins businessman

Trayton Spencer Lull, 82, died Friday, Aug. 18, at his home in Hopkins. Born Nov. 13, 1934, in Grand Rapids, he was the son of Melvin Spencer Lull and Margaret Miller…

Editor August 18, 2017

Sports

Lady Wildcats, 1st-ever Martin team highlight Wayland Invite

The annual Wayland High School Cross-Country Invitational Friday afternoon revealed a couple of startling developments. One was historic, as Martin showed up with a boys’ team for the first time…

Editor August 18, 2017

Editorial

I remember Congressman Vern Ehlers, perhaps too well

I knew Third District Congressman Vern Ehlers, who died earlier this week, and as Jeff Smith of the Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy (GRIID) so insightfully wrote, "In the past few…

Editor August 18, 2017