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Martin’s defense keeps on cranking out hoops wins

February 8, 2020

Briana Warner" Good defense. The Martin girls' varsity basketball team Friday evening powered past Saugatuck 52-25, showcasing once again its greatest strength — defense. The Lady Clippers, who rarely give up as many as 40 points in a ballgame, improved their season record to 13-1 and most recently have been...

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Vikings to battle for 1st place vs. Calvin Christian

February 8, 2020

Colin Weber Drew Weber After struggling out of the gate at the start of the basketball season, Hopkins has won eight of its last nine contests and its last six in a row. As a result, the Vikings are tied for first place in the O-K Silver Conference standings with...

Dorr’s Kuperus Dairy Farm founder dies at age 83

February 8, 2020

John Kuperus, husband, father and grandfather, died Thursday, Feb. 6. John was born in the Netherlands on July 14, 1936, and immigrated to New Jersey in 1953 where he met and married Annette Aukema Dec. 30, 1958. Together, with five of their children, they moved to Dorr and started Kuperus...

‘Cats lose 56-54 heart-breaker in last seconds to TK

February 7, 2020

Not all the news was bad Friday night. Wayland and TK students raised $19,100 to fight cancer. Wayland boys’ varsity basketball coach Chris Jasinski probably thought he had captured his first career victory Friday night, but fate dealt him and his team a cruel blow in a heart-breaking 56-54 loss...

Ludema, Dobry join the offensive party in TK win

February 7, 2020

Emma Ludema Haley Dobry Both the Wayland and Middleville Thornapple Kellogg girls’ basketball teams are having strange seasons. Wayland, coming off an awful loss in which it scored only 17 points and coach Wes Hudson was ejected and served a one-game suspension over too much “discussion” with refs at Lowell,...

Hopkins FFA students win a slew of district awards

February 7, 2020

The Hopkins FFA Demonstration team. Twenty-seven members of the Hopkins FFA Chapter competed at the District Leadership Contest Jan. 30 at the Van Buren Technology Center. Some of the local students came home with medals, according to advisor Jessica Couch. “Members have been working on developing their career development and...

League-leading TK bowlers take out ‘Cat girls, boys

February 6, 2020

Kadence Bottrall The Wayland girls' varsity bowling team Wednesday afternoon absorbed its third dual match loss this season, 17-13 at the hands of Middleville Thornapple Kellogg. The boys' team also lost to league-leading TK, but coach Sherry Rybiski Milklusicak said she was pleased with the efforts and performances of her...

Watson must come up with action plan to combat PFAs

February 6, 2020

Watson Township has until June 22 to come up with an action plan to deal with perfluorooctanoic acid, a perfluorinated carboxylic acid, or PFAs, that was discovered last fall in two of five wells and the old Watson-Martin landfill near the corner of 115th Avenue and 12th Street. Ray Spaulding of the...

Wayland man charged for taking, having pics of children

February 6, 2020

The Wayland Police Department has arrested a Wayland man on six counts of taking and possessing child sex abuse photos. Wayland department responded to a complainant residence in July, when a woman reported an incident involving her 10-year-old child who used the restroom at the Dollar General Store, 125 West...

Public meeting Feb. 13 to discuss Bradley exit project

February 6, 2020

The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT), in partnership with the Gun Lake Tribe, will have a public meeting from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13, to discuss a 2020-21 project to rebuild the US-131/M-179 (Chief Noonday Road/129th Avenue) interchange. The meeting will be held at the Gun Lake Tribal...

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