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Memorial Day 2025 at Bly Cemetery
VFW Auxiliary President Kelly Sehy paused for a moment of reflection after placing a floral tribute. Marcellus Elementary fourth grader Noah DeVries had the honor of singing the Star Spangled Banner during VFW Post #4054’s annual Memorial Day program, May 26. – News Photos Brooke Evans, Valedictorian of the MHS Class of 2025, recited Lincoln’s […]
SW 10 Conference Champs – Again!
The MHS varsity baseball team snagged a share of the SW10 Conference title after sweeping Decatur on the Raiders’ home field, Thursday, May 22. The ‘Cats are prepping for District tournament action on Saturday, May 31, at White Piegeon.-Photo credit: Nicki Hackenberg The MHS Varsity Baseball team made it two SW10 Conference Championships in a […]
Community Listening Session to Address Local Realities, Resilience, and the Road Ahead
Marcellus, MI — As rural communities across Michigan confront challenges in food access, healthcare, education, housing, and public services, local residents and stakeholders are organizing a Community Listening Session to reflect, respond, and reconnect around shared priorities. This nonpolitical, community-driven event invites organizations, agencies, and local groups—alongside individual residents—to take part in open conversation […]
Wildcats Sports Update
Best of luck to the Wildcats headed to State!Saturday, May 31, 2025hosted by Hudsonville High School Josie Adams – Pole VaultMadisyn Harrison – Pole VaultMarvin Jones – Shot put & discus LOCATION: Hudsonville Eagle Stadium, 7855 36th Avenue, Hudsonville, MI 49426.Please note that the stadium is NOT located at Hudsonville High School. ###
The True Book of Mostly Unrelated Stories: Miracle League, Miracle Players, Miracle Moments
West Michigan Miracle League (WMML) T-shirtbcommemorating opening day of Nate Hurwitz Field, September, 21, 2013. The field is part of the Art Van Sports Complex on 10 Mile Road in Plainfield Township. – Photo source: westmichiganmiracleleague.comby by John Mooy It was Grantland Rice, the famous sports journalist who once wrote: “For when the One Great […]
Bits & Pieces: Friendly Recipe
by Paula Johnson Ah, retirement! I still have piddly bookkeeping for the farm, but nothing as it used to be. The phone in the office is not only quiet – it is missing! I took out all the landlines that plugged into the wall sockets and put them in storage. My time is truly […]
Farm and Food File: Taxpayers and farmers caught in Farm Bill-created ‘government payment trap’
by Alan Guebertfarmandfoodfile.com On Feb. 21, 2018, this space outlined my assessment of Congress’s meandering approach to the overdue 2018 Farm Bill. Don’t just polish the badly tarnished 2014 Farm Bill, I urged; write a bill that “addressed” the law’s biggest flaw, “crop insurance’s inability to either slow or reverse falling farm income.” It […]
Jim Hightower – America’s #1 Populist: Why Would Anyone Buy A Ticket To Hell From Elon Musk?
by Jim Hightowerjimhightower.com The most embarrassing thing about the ballyhooed war-on-government-waste, run by Elon “Chainsaw” Musk, is not even that it has generated more waste than it has cleaned up. More damning is that the clean-up crew quietly tiptoed around the biggest and stinkiest piles of waste – namely the billions of our tax dollars […]
Cal Thomas – Uncover the cover-ups
by Cal ThomasCalThomas.com Those who lived through the Watergate scandal in the’70s with its associated names and labels, including President Richard Nixon, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the plumbers, non-denial denials, press secretary Ron Ziegler, Haldeman and Ehrlichman, the tapes, Judge John Sirica, Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, John Dean and the cover-up, will recall the […]
