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Clipper boys hang on to post 54-40 win over Lawrence

February 25, 2018

by Austin Marsman Newcomer Alex Hardy, a recent transfer from Otsego. The Martin boys' basketball team Friday night improved to 7-10 overall, and 4-7 in the SAC Lakeshore Division after beating Lawrence 54-40. Out of the gate, Martin brought fury to the court against the Tigers, leading 15 to 2...

Traffic is Dorr residential development’s biggest problem

February 25, 2018

ACHTUNG: This is not a "fair and balanced" story. It is an editorial by the editor. • "I moved out here to get away from the city." • "Not in my back yard (NIMBY)." • Ninety percent of the people who show up at meetings come here to bitch." The...

WHS junior earns ‘superior’ ratings for classical piano

February 25, 2018

Wayland High School junior pianist Nate Pepin of Dorr earned a "superior" rating from the Michigan Federation of Music Clubs' National Federation of Music Festival Tuesday, Feb. 20. Pepin performed Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" and a "Fantasy" by Rachmaninoff in the festival. The son of Amy Van't Hof and Denis Pepin,...

Two Lady Wildcats earn berths in state bowling tourney

February 24, 2018

Marissa BruinsSlot Sydney Urben Two Wayland High School seniors Saturday earned berths in the state Division 2 individual bowling tournament at Plymouth Canton. Sydney Urben was runner-up in the regional tourney at Continental Lanes and Marissa BruinsSlot finished seventh among the 89 competition. The top 10 earn the right to...

Yes It Is, It’s True: Mass shootings cause fear, freak out

February 24, 2018

"It's just like deja vu all over again" — Attributed to Yogi Berra "And you know something is happening, but you don't know what it is. Do you, Mr. Jones" — Bob Dylan, "Ballad of a Thin Man." Yes, it's happening again. We've been through this movie before, yet we...

One Small Voice: Today’s kids and ‘The Impossible Dream’

February 24, 2018

"To dream the impossible dream, To fight the unbeatable foe, To bear with unbearable sorrow, To run where the brave dare not go, To right the unrightable wrong, To love pure and chaste from afar, To try when your arms are too weary To reach the unreachable star..." These are...

Hopkins football player to be a coach for Lawrence Tech

February 24, 2018

Hopkins High School senior Jack Lincoln, a two-year varsity football player and a captain for the 2017 team, will attend Lawrence Tech University next fall and has signed a scholarship to join the football program as a coach while pursuing an engineer's degree. He is shown here with his parents...

Four Viking boys qualify for state D-3 bowling tourney

February 24, 2018

Four members of the Hopkins High School boys' bowling team Saturday qualified for the state Division 3 individual tournament by claiming slots among the top 10 of 90 bowlers competing in the regionals at M-66 Bowl in Battle Creek. The Viking qualifiers were Zach Mohr, third, 1,184 pins; Mikee Schumaker,...

Presley scores 31 in ‘pseudo homecoming’ at WMU

February 24, 2018

Wayland High School graduate Presley Hudson nailed five three-point field goals in a row in the first quarter Saturday and finished with 31 points to lead Central Michigan University to a 78-62 victory over Western Michigan in Kalamazoo. It was her third annual "pseudo homecoming" in playing before friends and...

Curses! Foiled again: Lady Wildcats 4th in regionals

February 24, 2018

Five members of the Wayland girls' bowling team have a group hug after winning the O-K Gold/Green Conference championship. Wayland boys’ bowling coach Sherry Miklusicak calls it “The Continental Curse,” when referring to the habit of the Wildcat girls finishing fourth in regionals, one place out of going to the...

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