BALDWIN — Bob Dyers lives five miles outside of Baldwin in a secluded spot that’s tucked away from populated areas. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t get occasional visitors to the bird feeder in his backyard. It’s not just birds doing the visiting. With the use of a trail camera, Dyers has discovered that a [...]
BALDWIN —- School is out and coach Scott Pedigo already has basketball players involved in a summer program. Pedigo indicated he had around 24 youngsters showing up Thursday with JV and varsity combined, during his basketball summer practices. “I have a whole lot going on,” he said Baldwin players will be working the courts this [...]
BALDWIN — Brandon Chldress has received all-conference honors for the West Michigan D League for the 2013 baseball season. Childress, a pitcher and center fielder, batted close to .500 and was among the top pitchers on the Baldwin team for coach Doug Bolles. Childress is a sophomore who made first-team honors. “It was an outstanding [...]
BALDWIN — Action is going strong in the Baldwin 4-H Youth League. The number of participants has just about doubled from previous seasons. There’s T-Ball action on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Hollister Park and coach-pitch play on Mondays and Wednesday The season is now in mid-month and will go until the end of June. Jason [...]
BALDWIN — Hunting season will now take a back seat to fishing as turkey hunters put an end to their campaign last month. Small game and other types of hunting will return in the fall. Turkey season in April and May had some local success. “The turkey season went good, I got mine,” said Ivan [...]
BALDWIN — Last Saturday and Sunday featured Free Fishing Weekend in Michigan but a recent announcement from the state points out that hunting and fishing will be somewhat more expensive, in some aspects, for Michigan sportsmen. Michigan’s first significant increase in hunting and fishing license fees since 1997 was passed by the State House on [...]
BALDWIN — Last Saturday and Sunday marked free fishing weekend but area fishermen were basically concerned right now that any type of fishing becomes very successful. The Department of Natural Resources pointed out that Michigan’s annual Summer Free Fishing Weekend was observed on Saturday and Sunday. Both residents and non-residents could fish without a license [...]
BALDWIN — Andon Ware’s high school sports career ended at Baldwin Saturday on a high note. The Panther senior was sixth in the 100-meter dash in the Division 4 track and field state finals at Hudsonville in 11.7 seconds. Alexander Lodes of Climax-Scotts was first in 11.3. Ware also ran in the 200-meter dash but [...]
BALDWIN — The baseball season has ended for Baldwin infielder Daekwon Fisher and his teammates but it was a year for memories. The biggest memory came in the district semifinals last Friday when the Panthers came back from a 9-0 deficit after two innings to win 12-11. They lost 18-8 in the finals to Pentwater [...]
CUSTER — Baldwin’s baseball team gave up a lot of runs to open the day and a lot more to close it. The results were a 12-11 victory over Crossroads in the semifinals of the Division 4 districts at Mason County Eastern, followed by an 18-8 loss in six innings to Pentwater in the title [...]