Editor

Car crosses center line into ditch in Martin Township

by Austin Marsman Crews were dispatched around 8:30 Monday night to Second Street near 122nd Avenue in Martin Township, where a car had left the road and slid into a ditch.…

Editor February 12, 2018

Articles

Healthy fund balance covers Hopkins Twp. shortfall

The Hopkins Township Board next month plans to adopt the 2018-19 fiscal year budget with about a $48,000 shortfall of revenue against expenditures. The deficit will be made up easily…

Editor February 12, 2018

Obituaries

Funeral will be Saturday for Martin Trustee Jim Brenner

Jim Brenner, who has been a trustee on the Martin Township Board for more than three decades, died Sunday. He was 67. A Shelbyville area farmer for many years, he…

Editor February 12, 2018

Sports

Clipper wrestlers win medals at district tournament

by Austin Marsman Martin wrestlers Payton Hunt, Jacob Robinson and Carsen Young placed at the Class D individual wrestling district tournament Saturday at Bloomingdale. Senior Payton Hunt was District Champion…

Editor February 11, 2018

Sports

WHS grad battling cancer honored at hockey game

Bob Meconis, a 1966 graduate of Wayland High School and longtime booster of Wildcat athletics, was given the honor Saturday night of dropping the puck for the Byron Center-Wayland combined…

Editor February 11, 2018

Columns

One Small Voice: Volunteers are our unsung heroes

by Lynn Mandaville I was given a wonderful opportunity this past week. The librarian who oversees volunteers for the City of Chandler (AZ) Public Library invited me to accompany her…

Editor February 11, 2018

Sports

Hopkins junior wins Tune-Up bowling tourney in GR

Hopkins High School junior Brenden Gossman Saturday was the individual winner of the annual Tune-Up Tournament at Spectrum Lanes in Grand Rapids. Gossman was third in the annual tourney as…

Editor February 11, 2018

Editorial

A little history provides insight about Salem road millage

To the editor: Re: How has Salem Townshop gotten away with 5-mill road levy? One has to look back into the history of the townships around Salem to understand the…

Editor February 10, 2018

Sports

Girls’, boys’ hoops tournament pairings announced

The girls' varsity basketball tournaments will get under way at Wayland and Climax-Scotts Monday-Friday, Feb. 26-March 2. The boys' tourney will be Monday-Friday, March 5-9, at Otsego and Martin. …

Editor February 10, 2018

Community Notices

Gun Lake ice too thin for snowmobiles, authorities say

After a woman was rescued Saturday by local authorities, Gun Lake is closed to snowmobiles because the ice is too thin and very weak, according to the Michigan Department of…

Editor February 10, 2018