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Vikings volleyball team unbeaten at Lawton Invitational

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The Hopkins varsity volleyball team opened its season on solid footing by taking runner-up honors Saturday at the Lawton Invitational. Hopkins defeated Fennville 21-16, 21-9; split with Comstock 20-21, 21-14 Hopkins defeated Lawton 21-8, 21-12 and Berrien Springs 21-13, 21-12 in pool play. The Vikings then beat Bridgman 21-12, 21-15...
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WHS grad, fiance` seriously injured in traffic crash

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Paul Miller and Jaime Laisure. Wayland High School graduate Jaime Laisure has been released from a Kalamazoo hospital after she and her fiancé, Paul Miller, also a WHS grad, suffered injuries in a serious traffic crash recently. Paul's car was T-boned and he was air lifted. Jaime, suffered a serious...
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Holland woman who drowned in Selkirk Lake identified

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Anna Demshuk A woman drowned in Selkirk Lake Saturday night while swimming with another woman near a residence on the lake. Allegan County Sheriff's authorities arrived at the just after 11 p.m. at the 800 block of 127th Avenue in Wayland Township. A caller reported two older females were swimming in the...
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Viking boys’ soccer team posts shutout win in opener

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The Hopkins boys' varsity soccer team opened its season with a 3-0 victory over Kenowa Hills Saturday. Hunter Lahaie scored two goals and Brad Lowery added the other. Jesse Dykstra, Elliot Fair and Joe Bala each came up with one assist. Austin Harnish recorded seven saves in posting the shutout.
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Lady Wildcat volleyball frosh cop Comstock tourney title

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The Wayland High School freshman volleyball squad got off to a fast start to the 2017 season by claiming the championship Friday in the Comstock Invitational. The Lady Wildcats defeated Coldwater in the final round to capture the crown. (Photo supplied)
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Service is Tuesday for longtime Hopkins businessman

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Trayton Spencer Lull, 82, died Friday, Aug. 18, at his home in Hopkins. Born Nov. 13, 1934, in Grand Rapids,  he was the son of Melvin Spencer Lull and Margaret Miller Lull and was the husband of Marrion Joyce Curtis Lull.  Mr. Lull was a member for nearly 50 years of Hopkins...
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Lady Wildcats, 1st-ever Martin team highlight Wayland Invite

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Riley Cronkright Maggie Whitney The annual Wayland High School Cross-Country Invitational Friday afternoon revealed a couple of startling developments. One was historic, as Martin showed up with a boys’ team for the first time the school’s history and didn’t do badly, scoring 91 points and taking fourth place. The other...
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I remember Congressman Vern Ehlers, perhaps too well

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I knew Third District Congressman Vern Ehlers, who died earlier this week, and as Jeff Smith of the Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy (GRIID) so insightfully wrote, "In the past few days there has been a number of news stories reflecting on the life of the former Congressman, with virtually every...
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Army Bob: Our longest war is vs. Islamic fundamentalism

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by Robert M. Traxler The history of the United States is a path we must travel to understand our present-day view of the world. Folks in the news business will tell us the war in Afghanistan is the longest in our history; not correct on so many levels. First, we...
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Mass of Christian Burial is Monday for Dorothy Budinger

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Dorothy Dorothy Ann Budinger, age 72, of Wayland, formerly of Kentwood, died Wednesday, Aug. 16. She had moved to Maplewood of Sandy Creek in Wayland five years ago. Dorothy is survived by her sister, Louise (Tom) Williams; her nieces and nephews Debbie Funk, Kathleen (Jerry) Burgess, Linda (John) VanSingel, Elaine...
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