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Please stop turning a health crisis into a political issue
ACHTUNG: This is not a “fair and balanced” article. It is an editorial by the editor. "The purpose of gummint is to create a healthy bidness climate." — The late…
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Wildcat girls’ hoops game at Catholic Central canceled
The Wayland boys' varsity basketball team lost an O-K Gold Conference encounter with Grand Rapids Catholic Central Thursday night, 78-33. The Lady Wildcats' game at GRCC was canceled, perhaps by…
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Vikings beat NorthPointe boys, lift Silver mark to 3-2
The Hopkins boys' varsity basketball team improved its overall season record to 5-3 Thursday evening with a 66-53 victory over O-K Silver Conference opponent NorthPointe Christian. The Lady Vikings, however,…
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Dorr Twp. Board handbook issue gets cooled down a bit
The contentious employee handbook issue from November quieted down considerably at the Dorr Township Board meeting Thursday night. The board agreed to have a committee of former Treasurer Jim Martin,…
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Army Bob: The left helping modern day robber barons
by Robert M. Traxler Jeff Bezos, the new champion of the American Left, is worth in excess of $194,900,000,000, an amount greater than gross national product of more than 100…
Posted inObituaries
Private family service is Saturday for Jim Coburn, 68
Jim Coburn died Tuesday, Feb. 23, at Bronson Hospital in Kalamazoo. He was 68. He was born April 14, 1952, in Plainwell, the son of Mickle and Vina (Vanderpool) Coburn.…
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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 — Feb. 29, 1996 Allegan County will join with Kent County in the…
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Mason Drozd wins regional spelling bee championship
Wayland Union Middle School eighth-grader Mason Drozd won the the 2021 Allegan County Spelling Bee championship and qualified for the Greater Grand Rapids Spelling Bee at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday March…
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Lady Wildcats suffer 2nd upset defeat of the season
The Wayland girls' varsity basketball team absorbed its second upset loss of the season Tuesday night, a 42-37 defeat at Forest Hills Eastern to a team that now sports a…
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Service delayed for former WHS teacher Don Jackson
Donald Edmund Jackson, age 75 of Rockford, died and "passed from polluted earth into pristine heaven" Saturday, Feb. 20, after a brutal but brief fight with cancer. Born Aug. 21,…