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Vikings lose 8-6 to Wyoming Lee in extra-inning thriller

April 25, 2016

The Hopkins baseball lost an extra-inning 8-6 ballgame to O-K Silver Conference rival Wyoming Lee Monday.after losing the lead in the eighth inning Monday. Brock Eller got on base three times in the game for the Vikings. He scored one run and had one RBI. He doubled in the first...

Retired farm implement dealer Vern Alflen dies at 94

April 25, 2016

Vernon J. Alflen, age 94, died Monday, April 25, at Byron Manor-Meadow Place. Vern owned the Alflen Bros. Farm Implement dealership in Wayland, and at one time was said to have the largest dealership in Western Michigan. He enjoyed his time working with the local farm community before retiring to...

Hopkins FFA members clean up Poplar Hill Cemetery

April 25, 2016

Members of the Hopkins chapter of the FFA last weekend did a cleanup of the Polar Hill Cemetery in Monterey Township. The FFA performed the work as part of a community service project under the leadership of adviser Jessica Couch.

Wildcats place 4th in Frank Grimm Relays at Wyoming

April 25, 2016

The Wayland boys' track team finished fourth in the upper division competition of the 50th annual Frank Grimm Relays Saturday. Performing well for the Wildcats were thrower Macarty Carpenter, hurdler Lee Anderson, and distance runner and pole vaulters Perry Carter and Owen Glass. Carpenter took first in the shot put...

Teunissen, Obetts help Davenport take over 1st in WHAC

April 25, 2016

Former Lady Wildcat Mallory Teunissen pitched and won the second game of a doubleheader against the University of Michigan-Dearborn over the weekend, enabling Davenport to take over first place in the Wolverine-Hoosier Conference. The Panthers are looking to take the WHAC regular season championship for the third straight year. Teunissen,...

Lady Wildcats take 5th in Grimm Relays at Wyoming

April 25, 2016

The Wayland girls' track team finished fifth Saturday at the 50th annual Frank Grimm Relays at Wyoming High School. Zeeland West won the meet and Rockford was runner-up. The dynamic duo of Brooke Mulder and McKenna Dutkiewicz placed third in the shot put and second in the discus. Brooke threw...

Monday Moanin’: God’s love In the time of bathroom bills

April 24, 2016

by Jennifer Bailey, Sojourners As a clergywoman, I find myself most troubled by the fact the sponsors of these laws often do so in the name of protecting Christianity. Is our Christianity so fragile that it must dictate where people pee? I will never forget the day my friend Aaron...

The Muck Starts Here: Observations, and more complaints

April 24, 2016

by Barry Hastings It's clearly a major problem. Our already filthy-rich drug-making corporations ("Medicine is what they do"), are very deeply involved in the tsunami of opiates/opioids (as you will), and intentionally manufacture far more of them than common sense tells us is legitimate. I recently watched a piece on...

Columns

Army Bob: We ignore news about North Korea at our peril

April 24, 2016

by Robert M. Traxler CNN online, hardly a right wing news outlet, announced Saturday that the Peoples’ Republic of Korea (North Korea) fired a BM-25 Taepodong X intermediate range missile from a submarine. The story got a huge yawn from the mainstream media; after all, why is it news that...

Portland’s final inning 3-run rally edges Wildcats, 7-6

April 23, 2016

Portland rallied for three runs in the bottom of the final inning to come from behind and edge Wayland 7-6 in both team’s second game of the Denny Richardson Baseball Tournament at Lakewood. The Wildcats lost the tournament opener earlier in the day 9-4 to Battle Creek Pennfield. It was...

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