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Casino Revenue Sharing Board will hear complaints

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Hopkins Township Supervisor Mark Evans and Sixth District Allegan County Commissioner Gale Dugan plan to be at the 4 p.m. meeting Wednesday of the Gun Lake Casino Revenue Sharing Board at the Tribe's Government Offices on 129th Avenue. Both plan to ask board members why the current revenue sharing arrangement...
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Angry Hopkins Twp. citizen calls for sexton’s removal

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Julia Layton Keith Layton, son of Julia Layton, who died Aug. 2, told the Hopkins Township Board the township sexton should be removed f0r incompetence in the wake of an unfortunate incident involving her burial. Layton said his mother and father, Ron, purchased a plot in Maplewood Cemetery in 2013...
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Funeral mass Friday at St. Therese for Gary Belka

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Gary Belka, a 1963 graduate of Wayland High School, died of cancer this morning at his home near the corner of Church and West Superior streets. He was 73. Belka worked as produce manager for Harding's Market in Wayland before taking a job with General Motors. He is survived by...
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Retro Room co-owner to challenge Bala for mayor

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Brian Sweebe Brian Sweebe, co-owner of the Retro Room and a member of the Main Street Downtown Development Authority, will challenge Wayland Mayor Tim Bala in the Nov. 6 election. Sweebe opened the Retro Room at the corner of North Main and West Superior Street downtown two years ago. He...
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Work begins on expanding Wayland Middle School

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Construction has begun on the new wing at Wayland Middle School, the featured piece of the bond issue passed by voters in November 2017. Triangle Construction have begun to move dirt for the project, which is projected to be completed before the start of the 2019-2020 academic year. Expansion of...
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Zoning enforcement is necessary, but it’s unpopular

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ACHTUNG: The following is not a "fair and balanced" story. It is an editorial by the editor. Zoning is the function of government that doesn't seem to get much respect. That means too many people, agencies and institutions lack respect for the law. This conclusion can be made easily just...
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One Small Voice: Confessions of a snobby news junkie

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"I make my living off the evening news Just give me something-something I can use People love it when you lose, They love dirty laundry." — "Dirty Laundry" by Don Henley and Danny Kortchmar, 1982, by Lynn Mandaville It has happened. I have become an insufferable news snob. Let me set...
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Patricia Mueller, 1945 Hopkins grad, dies at 91

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Patricia Ann Mueller, nee Maher, age 91, of Lombard, a 1945 graduate of Hopkins High School, has died. She was the wife of the late Donald; mother of Joseph (Camala) Mueller, William Mueller (Sandi Salyer), and Thomas (Katie) Mueller; grandmother of Matthew, Andrew, MaryErin, Kathleen, JoEllen, Susannah, Rachel, Maura, Lance,...
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Court nixes Martin Twp. collecting enforcement fees

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Nathan Knight Allegan County District Court Judge William Baillargeon this week ruled against Martin Township in its attempts to collect fees for zoning enforcement against independent business owner Nathan Knight. Knight, owner of L&L Materials at 1082 10th St. in Martin, was cited for constructing a barn without a permit...
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Wayland man, 51, pleads guilty to child sex images

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Allegan County Circuit Court Judge Marge Bakker will sentence a 51-year-old Wayland man who pleaded guilty to charges in connection with possession and sharing child pornography images. Frank Dean Simmons has pleaded to one count of child sexually abusive activity last March in Wayland when he he sent sexually explicit...
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