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Yes It Is, It’s True: Mass shootings cause fear, freak out
"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"…
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One Small Voice: Today’s kids and ‘The Impossible Dream’
"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…
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Hopkins football player to be a coach for Lawrence Tech
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…
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Four Viking boys qualify for state D-3 bowling tourney
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…
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Presley scores 31 in ‘pseudo homecoming’ at WMU
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…
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Curses! Foiled again: Lady Wildcats 4th in regionals
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…
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Viking boys regional bowling champs, girls take 4th
The Hopkins boys' bowling team captured the Division 3 regional championship Friday at M-66 Bowl in Battle Creek. The Vikings now will go to the state tournament next weekend…
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Wildcat boys finish with 8-12 mark, girls end season at 5-15
The Wayland boys' and girls' basketball teams concluded their regular seasons Friday evening by splitting their two contests at home against South Christian. The boys defeated the visiting Sailors 50-42,…
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Vicksburg man killed while exiting car on US-131 near Martin
by Austin Marsman Michigan State Police report that a 48-year-old man from Vicksburg was killed on U.S.-131 late Friday afternoon near the Martin exit (No. 55). The incident happened between…
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Viking boys score satisfying 71-58 win over Northpointe
The young and inexperienced, but talented Hopkins boys' basketball team Friday night registered perhaps its most satisfying victory this season, a 71-58 verdict over visiting Northpointe Christian. The Vikings, who…