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Big Dipper updating to year-round, coffee shop
The Big Dipper ice cream parlor now is going year-round by serving as a coffee shop. Owner Taylor Emert said her dream her whole life was to own a coffee…
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Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County
(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — Oct. 20, 1997 Coach Mark Austin’s Hopkins girls captured two more victories,…
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Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County
(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) The Hopkins Fire Department secured this new fire truck in 1963. This was a high pressure…
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Wayland man joins Lowell gallery artists’ cooperative
David Kerley David Kerley of Wayland has accepted an offer of an artists' cooperative membership at Flat River Gallery in Lowell. Kerley, who will start in November in time for…
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Education Foundation helps buy 2 band devices
Kelli Tilley Smith Wayland High School band director Kelli Tilley Smith this morning announced that the Wayland Union Education Foundation awarded the music program $3,610 as a match from band…
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‘Tis the changing of the colors early this season?
Susan Wisniewski-Bush posted this photograph today on Facebook near the United Bank on West Superior Street in Wayland. She noticed the changing of the color of a prominent tree in…
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Imagination Library gets $100,000 contribution
(From left) Brian Gaggin, President, United Way; Samantha Ball, Superintendent/CFO, Martin Public Schools; Jim Greydanus, Superintendent, Fennville Public Schools; Allyson Huttenga, Director of Corporate Engagement, United Way; Kessie Karg, Director…
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Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County
(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — Oct. 6, 1997 Bill's Village Auto Repair in Hopkins Dawn Losinger of…
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Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County
(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) This 1940 Wayland High School football team won seven of its eight games for the season,…
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Hopkins’ Main Street Bakery taped in ‘Best’ series
Main Street Bakery in Hopkins is one of the eateries featured Thursday in in the “America’s Best Restaurants” filmed series. Main Street Bakery, billed as specializing in fresh, from scratch…