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Wildcat boys runners-up in Division 2 track regional

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Seth Sevenski-Popma The Wayland boys’ varsity track team Friday came home from Mason with the Division 2 regionals runner-up trophy. The girls’ squad didn’t do badly either, finishing sixth among the 15 teams in the competition. The Wildcat boys scored 82 points behind champion Parma Western’s 130. The Lady Wildcats...
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Lady Vikings 4th, boys 7th in regional track contests

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Regional 400 champ Evangelina Helderop The Hopkins girls took fourth place with 57 points in the regional track meet at Sturgis Friday. The Viking boys were seventh with 42 points. Otsego won both the boys’ and girls’ regional championships. First-year Lady Viking junior Evangelina Helderop captured the individual regional crown...
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Yes It’s True: I fell for Pillow Guy’s huckster sales pitch

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"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." — Proverbs in the Old Testament I have long prided myself in avoiding hucksterism and foolish purchases of goods and services I don't want or need. I have a proud history of not buying bottled water, not buying higher...
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HAFA award winner wants to become a veterinarian

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The Hopkins Area Fire Department has announced that Jordan DeBoer is this year's recipient of the Hopkins Area Volunteer Firemen’s Fund scholarship. Jordan plans ton attending Grand Rapids Community College and then move on to Michigan State University to pursue a degree as a veterinarian.
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Martin senior earns a slew of awards to go to college

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Martin High School senior Mackenzie Gilson accepts one of her many awards announced Thursday evening from Superintendent David Harnish. Among her accolades were the Fenner Family Scholarship, Martin Education Scholarship, Lions Club, Jayrd Ford Martin Althletic Booster, Allegan Credit Union and the Gun Lakes Women Club. (Photo supplied)
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Army Bob: Follow the money on Green New Deal

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by Robert M. Traxler The third in the ongoing series concerning the Green New Deal, as posted on the Green Party’s web site. Exactly how the Green New Deal will be enacted is anyone’s guess, but the cost can be quantified. Arguably $93,000,000,000,000 (ninety-three trillion dollars) is the estimated cost....
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Lady Wildcats making another run for Gold title

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The Wayland varsity softball team is still in the thick of the race to win yet another O-K Gold Conference championship. The Lady Wildcats despite having only one senior on the roster, improved their league record to 9-1 with a pair of shutout victories in a doubleheader against Grand Rapids...
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Hopkins and Lady Vikings enjoy a Redemption Day

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Todd Henley It must have been a sort of Redemption Day Monday for the Hopkins track teams at the Comstock Invitational. After somewhat disappointing O-K Silver Conference meet performances Friday, the Viking boys bounced back to win the title trophy with 114 points while the Lady Vikings captured second place...
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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) 25 Years Ago — May 18, 1994 The Wayland Union school district will ask voters to approve a three-mill $23.4 billion bond project to construct a new middle school near the current high school site in...
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Funeral at Gun Lake Church Tuesday for Thomas Wallace

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Thomas Dale Wallace died Sunday, May 12, at Blodgett Hospital in East Grand Rapids, at the age of 57. Tom was born on Nov. 3, 1961, in Kalamazoo, to Dennis and Sandra Wallace. He graduated from Plainwell High School in 1980 and later from Aims Community College in Greeley, CO. He married...
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