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‘Sounding of the Siren’ event for Gun Lake is May 17

May 4, 2016

A “Sounding of the Siren” public celebration to recognize successful collaborative partnership and fund-raising effort to purchase a severe weather siren to enhance public safety in the Gun Lake area will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 17. The event will take place at the Yankee Springs Recreation Park,...

Wildcats drop 9-inning thriller, but win nightcap 7-2

May 4, 2016

The Wayland varsity baseball team lost a nine-inning thriller to Hastings in the first game of their double-header Tuesday, but came back to win the nightcap, 7-2. The Wildcats were down 7-0 after two innings in the opener, but clawed their way back to tie the game up at 7...

Mass of Christian burial will be Friday for Corlyss Leach

May 4, 2016

Corlyss Leach age 74 of Wayland, died Monday, May 2, after a long struggle with cancer. Corlyss is survived by her husband of 55 years, Gary Leach; children: Tina (Brian) Collings, Penny (Dale) Kaminski, Julie Leach, nine grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren; sister Carolyn Derby, sister-in-law Patty Zoulek, brother-in-law Bill Leach, sister-in-law...

Lady Wildcat softball squad is 6-0 in O-K Gold

May 3, 2016

The Wayland girls' varsity softball team shut out Hastings twice Tuesday, 12-0 and 14-0. The Lady Wildcats, the defending Class B state champions, are supposed to rebuilding after heavy graduation losses from last season, but are 6-0 in the O-K Gold Conference and 8-4 overall, not counting results of last...

Lady Vikings closing in on another league track title

May 3, 2016

The Hopkins girls’ track team took another step toward another O-K Silver Conference championship Tuesday with a convincing 97-38 dual meet victory over NorthPointe Christian. The Viking boys’ track team meanwhile defeated NorthPointe 92-36 to bring its OK-Silver record to 3-1 on the season. At the same meet, the guys...

Hopkins schools’ sinking fund levy proposal passes

May 3, 2016

Voters in the Hopkins Public School District narrowly approved, 312 to 291, a sinking fund levy of up to 1.6 mills for five years to take care of improvement projects. Majorities in Hopkins Township, 111 to 96, and Monterey Township, 64 to 37, helped carry the day for the positive...

CDXX pot exchange now operating in Orangeville Twp.

May 3, 2016

This is the site of the new Gun Lake CDXX Boutique, 11925 Marsh Road, Suite B Shelbyville, right across from Gun Lake in Barry County in Orangeville Township. The shop provides an exchange site for legal marijuana patients and it sells marijuana-related paraphernalia. CDXX Boutique, operated by Jerry Dan Patrick and...

Lady Wildcats score 1st O-K Gold win of season

May 3, 2016

The Wayland girls' soccer team Monday captured its first victory this season in O-K Gold Conference play by turning back Hastings 3-1. Two unanswered goals by Madelyn Gray, assisted by Brinley Nieuwenhuis, and Lynnsey Hooker, also assisted by Nieuwenhuis, saw the visiting Lady Wildcats take a 2-0 lead into halftime....

Ranger Rick: We, the people, must get to work!

May 3, 2016

"It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt ... that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin..." —James Madison (1817) James Madison, often called...

Three Martin female athletes are academic all-SAC

May 3, 2016

Three Martin female athletes were given Academic All-Conference accolades at a luncheon at the Lawton Community Center April 28. Receiving all-academic plaques from the Southwest Athletic Conference were (from left) Pam Heijerman, Jazmin Hildebrand and Lauren Hunt.

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