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Columns

Delicious and colorful beet salad is a healthy choice

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by Kathy Herman Miller Packed with nutrition, beets are known to have great health benefits. I didn’t know this as a kid, just enjoyed the surprisingly great taste. Ingredients: 3 medium beets about 1 pound 1 tablespoon olive oil Juice of 1/2 of a lemon 3/4 tsp sugar 1/2 tsp...
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Editorial

What’s the big deal about schools ‘branding?’

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ACHTUNG: This is not a “fair and balanced” article. It is an editorial by the editor. “What mighty contests arise from trivial things.” — Alexander Pope Though I have long considered such issue as merely cosmetic, there indeed have been mighty contests over mascots, icons, logos and brands associated with...
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Obituaries

Funeral will be Monday for Joyce Dewey, 89

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Joyce A. (Jager) Dewey, age 89, of Wayland, died Wednesday, July 17. Joyce and her husband, Jack, shared nearly 71 years of marriage and built a happy home together. She enjoyed butterscotch candies, traveling, and listening to Gaither Music. Joyce will be lovingly remembered by her husband, Jack A. Dewey;...
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Columns

Yes It’s True: Primary has only a few GOP races

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Myrene Koch Mike Villar In the vast majority of cases, the Aug. 6 primary election ballot next month will show incumbents running unopposed. However, there are a few exceptions, but all races involve only Republicans. Townbroadcast already has examined the three-way for the new 48th Circuit judgeship, with the top...
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Community Notices

Hopkins, Salem fire depts. quickly handle campground blaze

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There was a fire at the East Lake campground at about 1 p.m. Thursday and the maintenance barn burned down. The Hopkins Fire Department and Salem Fire Department combine efforts to put the fire out quickly. A campground spokesperson said, "Bear with us while we operate without all of our...
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Sports

WHS grad competing in his 5th Paralympic goalball games

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Wayland High School graduate Tyler Merren, who now lives in Greenville, will take part in his fifth Paralymic Games this summer representing the USA in the unusual sport of goalball. The team is made up of visually impaired athletes. Merren is the oldest member at age 40.
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Amy Bob: Media complicit in covering up Biden’s decline

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by Robert M. Traxler Let’s look at President Joe Biden and his cognitive decline. Our friends in the media even today do not speak of the reasons behind his obvious decline. It is not widely reported, but Biden has had not one but two brain surgeries; they saved his life...
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Articles

Gun Lake Tribe having water tower installed

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The Gun Lake Tribe of Potowatomis now has a one million gallon water tank, including the tribe’s logo, installed on its new water tower along the U.S. 131 expressway just south of Wayland. The tower is expected ready by the end of this year. It is another piece of the...
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Obituaries

No service slated for former Wayland woman Mary Stoken

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Mary Louise Stoken (Garter), formerly of Wayland, died Tuesday, July 9. She was 85. Mary loved the beaches and the lighthouse of Grand Haven, where she grew up and went to high school. She also enjoyed spending time with her family and friends at Sandy Pines, feeding the fish under...
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Features

Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County

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(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) Downtown Allegan, which for the first time 75 years ago installed parking meters. 25 Years Ago — July 19, 1999 Four area teen-agers were caught in the act of whacking mailboxes, imitating a scene from a...
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