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Hopkins girls get revenge with defense vs. Rockets

A solid defensive effort and the depleted ranks of O-K Silver Conference co-leader Kelloggsville led to a girls’ basketball upset at Hopkins Friday night. The Vikings, who lost 55-39 at…

Editor February 14, 2020

Articles

Ambulance service seeks more local govt. funding

The Wayland Area Emergency Services Board is telling all members it needs more financial support to stay in business. The Leighton Township Board Thursday evening was the latest to be…

Editor February 14, 2020

Community Notices

Rev. Bonnie Simerly will retire April 26 at United Church

The Rev. Bonnie Simerly has announced she will retire this spring and leave the United Church of Wayland to return to Louisiana. She posted on Facebook today that she has…

Editor February 14, 2020

Features

Hopkins kindergartner’s art work featured in exhibit

Hopkins Elementary kindergartener Kade Byville's art work was exhibited in the Michigan Visual Arts Celebration Feb. 7-12. His piece was chosen for further adjudication at the state level The Visual…

Editor February 14, 2020

Columns

Barry Hastings: Trump challenges all our decency

Throughout the many years I’ve been writing for publication, I’ve periodically promised readers I’ll never knowingly tell them an untruth, a mistruth, or an outright lie. These days, I'm forced…

Editor February 13, 2020

Articles

Leighton Twp. plans to seek road millage Nov. 3

The Leighton Township Board has committed to making a request for extra road millage in the November general election. The board Thursday evening agreed to put a question on the…

Editor February 13, 2020

Sports

Tim Gibson to return to WHS as head football coach

Tim Gibson has been hired to return to Wayland as varsity football coach. Gibson may be best remembered as the coach of the Wildcat team that made it to the…

Editor February 13, 2020

Columns

Army Bob: The U.S. cannot stop climate change, if real

Food for thought: Every year the world's human population grows at an ever-increasing rate of more than 83,000,000 a year, per Wikipedia. Diet and medical care, mostly in China/Africa and…

Editor February 13, 2020

Community Notices

Couple in van sought for tossing, killing Chihuahuas

The Allegan County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an animal abuse complaint at about 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, near the 400 block of 124th Avenue in Wayland Township. The witnesses described…

Editor February 12, 2020

Features

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

(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — Feb. 15, 1995 Scott Sullivan wrote a feature story about KeLinda Scott…

Editor February 12, 2020