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Teunissen, Obetts help Davenport take over 1st in WHAC

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…

Editor April 25, 2016

Sports

Lady Wildcats take 5th in Grimm Relays at Wyoming

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…

Editor April 25, 2016

Columns

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

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…

Editor April 24, 2016

Columns

The Muck Starts Here: Observations, and more complaints

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),…

Editor April 24, 2016

Columns

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

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…

Editor April 24, 2016

Sports

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

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…

Editor April 23, 2016

Columns

Democracy Tree: Legislator wants to end cruel child punishment

“Seclusion in schools is a dangerous and unregulated practice that puts children at risk of harm.” — Mark McWilliams, Director of Information, Referral and Education Services at Michigan Protection & Advocacy…

Editor April 23, 2016

Sports

Lady Vikings run away with Watervliet Relays trophy

The Hopkins girls’ track juggernaut blew away the competition Friday at the Watervliet Relays. The Lady Vikings combined efforts to score 96 points, well ahead of runner-up Berrien Springs’ 68…

Editor April 23, 2016

Columns

Yes It Is, It’s True: Let’s not let politicians pick their districts

Today our story is about redistricting. It is not that long ago and not that far away. The year was 2002 and elections were planned for August and November for…

Editor April 22, 2016

Articles

Wayland schools’ financial picture continues to improve

The budget picture for the Wayland Union school district at the end of this fiscal year continues to improve. Finance Director Bill Melching told school board members Thursday night that…

Editor April 22, 2016