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Wayland CCA team captures 2nd in disc golf tournament

Students from Wayland’s Alternative High School, Career Connections Academy, placed second overall in a disc golf tournament Friday at Brewer Park in Byron Center where they competed against other alternative…

Editor October 5, 2015

Obituaries

Burial service for Dorr native Andrew Chrusciel will be Saturday

A burial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, at St. Stanislaus Catholic Cemetery in Dorr for Andrew Peter Chrusciel, 77, of Alton, Mo., who died Wednesday,…

Editor October 5, 2015

Sports

Wildcat volleyball squad ties twice, loses twice at Byron Center

The Wayland High School varsity volleyball team went 0-2-2 Saturday at the Cristi Curtis Invitational at Byron Center. The Lady Wildcats split with Grant and Zeeland East and then lost…

Editor October 4, 2015

Columns

Monday Moanin’: I am struggling to tolerate the intolerant

By Jeff Salisbury JeffreyLSalisbury@gmail.com An appeals court recently upheld a lower court's order halting a federal mandate requiring two Christian colleges - one in Michigan and the other in Iowa…

Editor October 4, 2015

Columns

The Muck Starts Here: The legislative morass in Lansing flourishes

by Barry Hastings It's found not only in Michigan, but folks here are certainly playing the parts of Lewis & Clark as pathfinders for the legislative masters of folly, sloppy…

Editor October 4, 2015

Editorial

Nanny state government could help ‘Bring ’em back alive!’

The Republican Party has been popular over the last 35 years with opposition to “Nanny government.” Yet at times it is guilty of the crime itself and has failed to…

Editor October 3, 2015

Sports

Viking girls and boys run with the bigger dogs at Allendale Invite

Hopkins freshman ace harrier Laura Velderman ran with the big dogs Saturday in the fifth annual Allendale Falcons Invitational. Velderman finished 17th, her worst showing this season, but she was…

Editor October 3, 2015

Sports

Wildcat harriers’ times good in competitive Otsego Invitational

The Wayland boys’ cross-country team finished 12th among 18 teams Saturday at the Otsego Bulldog Invitational and the girls’ team checked in 13th of 17 squads. Despite the wet, cold…

Editor October 3, 2015

Sports

Football scores, standings for O-K Gold, Silver, SAC, Week Six

Week Six— Overall records for football teams in the O-K Gold, O-K Silver and Southwestern Athletic Conferences. Ottawa-Kent Gold and Silver Standings- Week 6 Ottawa-Kent Gold …

Editor October 3, 2015

Sports

Vikings suffer 5th consecutive defeat in 15-8 loss to Calvin Christian

The Hopkins varsity football team reached its nadir under coach Cody Francis Friday night with a 15-8 defeat at the hands of O-K Silver Conference opponent Grandville Calvin Christian. The…

Editor October 3, 2015