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Lady Wildcats start season fast with Invitational championship

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The Wayland girls’ cross-country team got the 2016 season off to a flying start by claiming first place in the Wayland Invitational Friday. The Lady Wildcats scored 46 team points, followed by last year’s champ, Hamilton, with 56, two points ahead of Hopklns. Byron Center had 69 and Allegan 140....
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Gun Lake Tribe taking part in lake sturgeon release Aug. 29

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The Gun Lake Tribe of Pottawatomi Indians; Michigan Department of Natural Resources; U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and Kalamazoo River Chapter of Sturgeon for Tomorrow will have an annual release of lake sturgeon into the Kalamazoo River from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, Aug. 29. The eight-inch sturgeon set for...
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Allegan Law Enforcement Torch Run is Saturday, Aug. 27

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The Allegan area Law Enforcement Torch Run at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 27, will raise money for Special Olympics Michigan, with registration starting at 9 a.m. at Allegan Sports Complex. The Allegan Community Run is an opportunity for law enforcement, corrections personnel and community members to run shoulder to shoulder,...
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Army Bob: Down with the contrarians and secular progressives

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Let’s talk about the contrarians and how gutless they are. A contrarian is a person who is against everything and for nothing. Contrarians hate our country but live here, they hate our economic and governmental systems but are comfortable living within the system. The glass is half empty, not half...
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Basura: Adventures in snorkeling, searching for manta rays

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"Just to be here is so much." Rainer Maria Rilke, poet novelist On the Big Island of Hawai'i, in Kona, I signed up for a boat trip to snorkel with manta rays. The trip was canceled five nights in a row because of high surf and strong surge warnings. On...
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Gas line work causes Dorr temporary traffic flow headaches

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The intersection of 18th Street and 142nd Avenue has been a bit of a traffic bottleneck for motorists in Dorr over the past week. Consumers Power workers have been working in installing a new gas line, causing traffic to be limited to just one lane at the four corners traffic...
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Hopkins Fire Dept. adds a boat to its rescue inventory

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The Hopkins Area Fire Department has just added a boat to its apparatus inventory. "Most of our firefighters are Basic Water Rescue certified and this boat will be one more beneficial tool for performing rescues for when our community needs us," a spokesperson reported on the department's web site.
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Yes It Is, It’s True: A heartwarming and true gridiron tale

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CBS News and Scott Pelley not long ago did a heartwarming, perky and positive story about a mentally challenged high school football player who was deliberately given a chance to score a touchdown, and he succeeded. The story took place in Olivet, Mich., during an Olivet High School football game....
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Bygone Days: A look at the Wayland area’s past, Part 229

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25 Years Ago — Aug. 21, 1991 Pete Boyd is being hailed as a hometown hero after he ran down and lassoed a runaway cow on the east side of Wayland on East Superior Street. Bids for the streetscape renovation project for downtown Wayland will be opened Sept. 11 and...
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Funeral Friday for Mary Ellen Strickfaden of Salem Twp.

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Mary Ellen Strickfaden, 88, of Salem Township, died Tuesday, Aug. 16, at Rehoboth Oaks Dementia Care Home in Burnips. Mrs. Strickfaden was born Nov. 6, 1927, in Allegan, the daughter of Arthur and Laura (Smith) Tagg. Mary Ellen attended Burnips United Methodist Church for many years. She worked from 1945...
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