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Hopkins FFA members clean up Poplar Hill Cemetery
Members of the Hopkins chapter of the FFA last weekend did a cleanup of the Polar Hill Cemetery in Monterey Township. The FFA performed the work as part of a…
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Wildcats place 4th in Frank Grimm Relays at Wyoming
The Wayland boys' track team finished fourth in the upper division competition of the 50th annual Frank Grimm Relays Saturday. Performing well for the Wildcats were thrower Macarty Carpenter, hurdler…
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Teunissen, Obetts help Davenport take over 1st in WHAC
Former Lady Wildcat Mallory Teunissen pitched and won the second game of a doubleheader against the University of Michigan-Dearborn over the weekend, enabling Davenport to take over first place in…
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Lady Wildcats take 5th in Grimm Relays at Wyoming
The Wayland girls' track team finished fifth Saturday at the 50th annual Frank Grimm Relays at Wyoming High School. Zeeland West won the meet and Rockford was runner-up. The dynamic…
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Monday Moanin’: God’s love In the time of bathroom bills
by Jennifer Bailey, Sojourners As a clergywoman, I find myself most troubled by the fact the sponsors of these laws often do so in the name of protecting Christianity. Is…
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The Muck Starts Here: Observations, and more complaints
by Barry Hastings It's clearly a major problem. Our already filthy-rich drug-making corporations ("Medicine is what they do"), are very deeply involved in the tsunami of opiates/opioids (as you will),…
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Army Bob: We ignore news about North Korea at our peril
by Robert M. Traxler CNN online, hardly a right wing news outlet, announced Saturday that the Peoples’ Republic of Korea (North Korea) fired a BM-25 Taepodong X intermediate range missile…
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Portland’s final inning 3-run rally edges Wildcats, 7-6
Portland rallied for three runs in the bottom of the final inning to come from behind and edge Wayland 7-6 in both team’s second game of the Denny Richardson Baseball…
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Democracy Tree: Legislator wants to end cruel child punishment
“Seclusion in schools is a dangerous and unregulated practice that puts children at risk of harm.” — Mark McWilliams, Director of Information, Referral and Education Services at Michigan Protection & Advocacy…
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Lady Vikings run away with Watervliet Relays trophy
The Hopkins girls’ track juggernaut blew away the competition Friday at the Watervliet Relays. The Lady Vikings combined efforts to score 96 points, well ahead of runner-up Berrien Springs’ 68…