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Ranger Rick: Jimmy Dean and the IOUs to your Mom
I was listening to an oldies station the other day and came across this gem from Jimmy Dean. You probably know him as the sausage maker, but he was a…
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Lady Vikings mercy Wyoming Lee 15-0 to go to 10-5
The Hopkins softball team scored a 15-0 victory in four inning over O-K Silver Conference rival Wyoming Lee Monday afternoon to run its overall season record to 10-5. Hailey Burch…
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Vikings lose 8-6 to Wyoming Lee in extra-inning thriller
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…
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Retired farm implement dealer Vern Alflen dies at 94
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…
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Hopkins FFA members clean up Poplar Hill Cemetery
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…
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Wildcats place 4th in Frank Grimm Relays at Wyoming
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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),…