The Hastings Banner — Thursday, March 2, 2023 — Page 13195733
RUTLAND CHARTER TOWNSHIPNOTICE OF BOARD OF REVIEW
The Board of Review will meet on Tuesday, March 7, 2023, at 1:00 pm in the
office of the Assessor at Rutland Charter Township Hall, 2461 Heath Rd,
Hastings, Michigan 49058 to organize and review the Assessment Roll.NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING to hear Assessment APPEALS will be held at the
RUTLAND CHARTER TOWNSHIP HALL, 2461 Heath Rd, Hastings, Michigan on:MONDAY, MARCH 13, 2023 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm & 6:00 pm to 9:00 pmWEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2023 9:00 am to NOON & 1:00 pm to 4:00 pmAlso, any other days deemed necessary to equalize the Assessment Roll.PROPERTY ASSESSMENT RATIOS & FACTORS FOR 2022CLASS RATIO MULTIPLIER
Agriculture 46.14 1.
Commercial 48.50 1.
Industrial 48.04 1.
Residential 42.25 1.
Developmental 50.00 1.
Personal 50.00 1.The above ratios and multipliers do not mean that every parcel will receive the same.
If you have purchased property, it will be assessed at 50% of market value. If you
have improved your property such as additions, new buildings, driveways, etc., this will
also reflect in the value of your property.Upon request of any person who is assessed on said roll, or his agent, and upon
sufficient cause being shown, the Board of Review will correct the assessment of such
property and will, in their judgment, make the valuation thereof relatively just and equal.Dennis McKelvey, Assessor
RUTLAND CHARTER TOWNSHIP
2461 Heath Rd
Hastings, MI 49058
269-948-Individuals with disabilities requiring auxiliary aids or services should contact the
Rutland Charter Township Clerk by writing or calling the Township.This notice is posted in compliance with PA 267 of 1976 as amended (Open
Meetings Act) MCLA41.72a (2)(3) and the Americans with Disabilities Act
(ADA).
195151TOWNSHIP OF BALTIMORE
2023 NOTICE OF BOARD OF REVIEW
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Board of Review will meet at the Township
Hall, 3100 E. Dowling Rd. Hastings, MI 49058, to examine and review the 2023
Assessment roll. The board will convene on the following dates for the hearing
of appeals of assessments or taxable values, poverty exemptions, parcel
classification appeals and/or current year qualified agricultural denials:Tuesday, March 7, 2023, 1:00 pm Organizational Meeting
Hearings will be the week of March 12, 2023
Monday, March 13, 2023, 9:00 am to 12 noon and 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Wednesday, March 15, 2023, 1 pm to 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm to 9:00 pmAnd on such additional days as required to hear all persons who have given
notice of the desire to be heard until assessment rolls have been revised,
corrected and approved.Letter appeals will be accepted and must be received no later than 9:00 pm
March 15th, 2023Tentative ratios and estimated multipliers for 2023 are as follows:
Agricultural 46.99% 1.
Commercial 47.67% 1.
Industrial 45.11% 1.
Residential 48.04% 1.
Personal Property 50.00% 1.Tentative equalization factor of 1.0000 for all classes is expected after
completion of Board of Review.
Chad VanSyckle, Supervisor Baltimore Township
Scott Anderson, Assessor Baltimore TownshipBaltimore Township Board Meetings are open to all without regard to race, color,
national origin, sex or disability.American with Disabilities (ADA) Notice
The township will provide necessary reasonable auxiliary aids and services, to
individuals with disabilities at the meeting/hearing upon seven (7) days notice to
Baltimore Township. Individuals with disabilities requiring auxiliary aids or
services should contact Baltimore Township by writing or calling.Baltimore Township Clerk
Penelope Ypma
3100 E Dowling Rd
Hastings, MI 49058
269.721.Trojan ski senior, VanDemark,
one spot shy of slalom medal
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Plainwell/Thornapple Kellogg senior Lucy
VanDemark closed her senior season with her
best state finals appearance Monday at the
MHSAA Division 2 Ski Finals at Boyne
Mountain.
VanDemark just missed a spot on the top ten
state medal stand with her 11th-place finish in
the slalom competition. She put together runs
of 36.94 seconds and 38.28. Those put her ten
spots higher than she’d been in the slalom a the
Division 1 State Finals as a junior.
The Thornapple Kellogg senior also had a
27th-place performance in the giant slalom
Monday with times of 41.62 and 39.70.
VanDemark was 16th after one run in the
slalom Monday and her time of 38.28 was the
best second run time of the day.
It was a tumultuous high school ski season
in 2022-23 with warm weather and minimal
snowfall making competitions scarce.
Marley Spence from Petoskey had the two
fastest slalom runs of the day in the girls’
contest. She had times of 33.26 and 33.52.
She also won the GS competition with times
of 38.09 and 36.82.
Her teammate Cassidy Whitener was the
only one to best her on any run at the finals.
Whitner had a second run time of 36.56 the
second time down the hill in the GS. That
combined with a first run time of 40.61 put
her in eighth place in that event. Whitener
was third in the slalom.
That duo couldn’t get the Petoskey team to
the stop of the day’s final standings though.
The Petoskey boys won a state title, but the
Notre Dame Prep girls beat out the Petoskey
girls 61-87 at the top of the standings.
Cadillac was third in the girls’ meet with113 points, ahead of Great North Alpine 126,
Harbor Springs 159, East Grand Rapids 160,
Grand Rapids Christian 192, Marian 244 and
Cranbrook Kingswood 279.
The top two teams were the same in the
boys’ meet, but Petoskey best out Notre
Dame Prep 63-83 for the title. Great North
Alpine was third with 116 points, ahead of
Harbor Springs 128, Orchard Lake St. Mary’s
164, East Grand Rapids 171, Grand Rapids
Christian 194, Grand Rapids West Catholic/
Catholic Central 278 and Brother Rice 293.
Petoskey’s Wyatt Mattson won the boys’
GS with runs of 33.48 and 34.29 seconds and
his teammate Nolan Walkerdine took the sla-
lom with runs of 34.96 and 35.91. Walkerdine
had the two fastest guys’ slalom runs. Both
guys won two individual state medals. Walk-
erdine was third in the GS and Mattson
placed seventh in the slalom.Marshall
clinches I-
title on woeful
shooting night
for Saxons
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Marshall went on a 17-6 run in the
second quarter then went on to a 53-
win over the visiting Hastings varsity
boys’ basketball team to close the
Interstate-8 Athletic Conference sea-
son Friday.
Marshall clinched a share of the
conference title with the win. Marshall
and Coldwater were both 11-3 in con-
ference action this winter.
The Hastings boys end league play
at 6-8. They are 9-12 overall heading
into the regular season finale tonight
at Olivet High School. That’ll be
another challenge for the Saxons.
Olivet was undefeated in the Greater
Lansing Activities Conference and
hadn’t lost at all this season until
Tuesday night when they were bested
65-44 at Saline.
“It will be a great game to see how
well we can prepare and translate to
game situation,” Hastings head coach
Rich Long said. “Olivet is playing
great basketball and is a very good
team. Hopefully we can use that game
as some momentum going into dis-
trict week.”
The Saxons were within five points
of the Marshall boys when the two
teams met in January in Hastings.
“We were coming off three straight
games and then a week of no school or
practices and we played like it,” Long
said of Friday’s defeat. “We shot very
poorly and just were not mentally
ready to play. Marshall likes to pres-
sure the ball, and use transition to get
easy buckets and they were playing for
a share of the league title.”
Hastings was just 23.3 percent
shooting for the night. The Saxons
were 1-of-9 from three-point range
and 9-of-34 from inside the arc.
Things weren’t even much better at
the free throw line where they were
just 5-of-12.
Josh Pugh led Marshall with 16
points. The Redhawks also got 8
points from Austin Burns.
Hastings got 8 points and 4 rebounds
and 3 steals from senior Layton East-
man. Owen Carroll, Myles Padilla and
Hayden Long had 4 points each.
Hastings opens the MHSAA Divi-
sion 2 state tournament against Grand
River Prep at Plainwell High School
Monday at 5:30 p.m. The winner of
that ballgame returns to Plainwell
Wednesday, March 8, to take on South
Christian in the district semifinals.
Plainwell and Wayland square off in
the other district opener in Plainwell
Monday with the winner of that game
meeting Otsego in the semifinals.DK girls beat Colts in their district opener
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Delton Kellogg had no trouble earning a
second district ballgame this week.
The Panthers opened the 2023 MHSAA
Division 3 state tournament with a 42-
win over Comstock in the opening round of
their district tournament being hosted by
Lawton Monday.
Jordan Lyons had 17 points, 12 rebounds,
6 steals and 5 assists for the Delton Kellogg
team, while only turning the ball over three
times. Josie Williams contributed 15 points
and 13 rebounds.
The Delton Kellogg team also got an out-
standing defensive effort from Paige Thomas
and Kasey Kapteyn according to head coach
Mike Mohn. Mohn said their typical shut
down style took Comstock’s best player out
of the picture.
The DK girls were set to face Kalamazoo
Christian in the district semifinals Wednesday,
March 1, back in Lawton. The district final is
planned for Friday at 7 p.m. at Lawton High
School. The district’s other semifinal match
Wednesday pitted Lawton against Schoolcraft.
Kalamazoo Christian went into its ball-
game with Delton Kellogg 19-3 overall on
the season. With the reworked Southwestern
Athletic Conference it was a rare winter that
the Panthers and Comets didn’t square off
during the regular season.
The DK girls fell in their final two South-
western Athletic Conference Central Divi-sion ballgames last week to the league
champions from Martin and the league run-
ners-up from Gobles.
Martin took a 20-29 win over the Panthers
in Delton Friday night to close a 10-0 SAC
Central season. Gobles bested the DK girls
43-27 Tuesday, Feb. 21.
Shooting woes plagued the DK girls in the
loss at Gobles. They were just 10-of-51 from
the floor. They were still within three points
at the end of the third quarter though. Lyons
had 10 points. Cadence Johnson and Wil-
liams finished with 5 points each. Williams
also had a team-high 11 rebounds.
DK was 0-10 in the SAC Central this win-
ter and was 6-17 overall heading into its dis-
trict semifinal ballgame.Hastings teams sending three bowlers to MHSAA D2 Finals
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
A trio of Saxons earned spots in the
MHSAA Division 2 Bowling Finals with
their performance in the regional singles
competition at Spectrum Lanes Friday.
Seniors Abby Barton and Andrea Rhodes
form the Interstate-8 Athletic Conference
champion Hastings varsity girls’ bowling
team finished among the top ten of the 76
bowlers to earn their finals spots. They’ll be
joined at the state finals by sophomore Miles
Lipsey from the HHS boys’ team.
Barton had the top finish for the Saxons a
day after the girls’ team just missed out on
returning to the state finals with a fifth-place
finish. Barton had a six-game score of 1,
to place fifth. Rhodes was ninth with a score
of 1,019.
Barton was consistent throughout with
high games of 190 and 195.
Rhodes got off to a great start with games
of 201 and 190.
All ten of the girls’ state qualifiers hadscores over 1,000 at the regional. Wayland
senior Kadence Bottrall won the individual
regional title with a total score of 1,
which was more than 100 pins better than
Otsego junior Alicyn Klok who was the run-
ner-up.
All six Hastings girls competing finished
in the top half of the field. Ally Herder was
18 th overall, Heaven Simmet 29th, Amber
Rabideau 30th and Jen Stoline 33rd.
The Thornapple Kellogg bowlers were at
Spectrum Lanes for their regional competi-
tions Thursday and Friday too. Sara Will-
shire, a junior, led TK with a 38th-place
finish. Emily Podbevsek was 41st, Savannah
Rehfeldt 53rd, Sydney Ripley 56th and
Jenna Robinett 60th. Teammate Ashleigh
Norman was 68th.
Lipsey earned a spot in the state finals for
the first time with his ninth-place finish in the
boys’ competition Friday. He had a total pin-
fall of 1,138. Lipsey had a high game of 237.
Only the regional champion, Mason junior
Jonathan Hendershot, and third-place finish-er Anderson Zoch from Allegan had any
single games higher than Lipsey’s 237.
Hendershot took the regional title with an
overall score of 1,304. He had a high-game
of 248, which was the top individual game
of the day.
Thornapple Kellogg senior Ziah Moore
was 16th overall to lead his team. He had a
total score of 1,084 which left him 48 pins
shy of the last of the ten state qualifiers. He
had high games of 216 and 200.
Hastings sophomore Hunter Pennington
placed 20th with high games of 193, 197 and- Junior Cohen James was 30th with
highs of 196 and 194 among his six games.
The Saxon team also had senior Jackson
Clow 50th, senior Drew Rhodes 55th and
junior Zach Ramey 61st.
Thornapple Kellogg had senior Wyatt
Jacobson 28th, senior Ethan Kriekaard 33rd,
senior Wyatt Barnes 50th, freshman Landen
England 74th and senior Andy Liu 80th.
Mason won the boys’ team title Thursday
with an overall score of 3,309. The team
competition included scores from eight
Baker games and two regular games.
DeWitt was second with a score of 3,
and Wayland third at 3,211. The top three
teams earned spots in the state finals. The
Division 2 Team State Finals will be held
Friday at Century Bowl in Waterford and the
Singles Finals are set for Saturday.
Charlotte was fourth in the boys’ team
standings at Spectrum Lanes with a score of
3,101, ahead of Grand Rapids Christian
3,040, Otsego 2,941, Fowlerville 2,898,
Allegan 2,838, Thornapple Kellogg 2,806,
Gull Lake 2,787, Pennfield 2,704, Hastings
2,679, Haslett 2,608 and Plainwell 2,029.
The Hastings girls were 163 pins behind
the last of the state qualifying girls’ teams
from the region.
Allegan won the girls’ title with a score of
2,977, ahead of Charlotte 2,973, Mason
2,941, Wayland 2,865, Hastings 2,778,
Grand Rapids Christian 2,588, Fowlerville
2,548, Otsego 2,503, Gull Lake 2,369, Pen-
nfield 2,288 and Thornapple Kellogg 2,260.DKHS boys clip Clippers to close
SAC Central season in third
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The Delton Kellogg varsity boys’ bas-
ketball team will star the state postseason
Monday at Galesburg-Augusta High
School taking on Comstock in the opening
round of the MHSAA Division 3 District
Tournament.
The Panthers are 9-12 heading into their
regular season finale at Battle Creek Cal-
houn Christian tonight, March 2.
The Comstock Colts are 12-9 so far this
season. They finished off a conference
championship season in the Southwest 10
Conference North with a 64-49 win over
Decatur Tuesday night.
Delton Kellogg finished a 5-5 season in
the Southwestern Athletic Conference
Central Division with a 49-42 win over
visiting Martin Friday night.
Delton Kellogg head coach Jim Hogo-
boom liked his guys’ energy on senior
night against a neighborhood rival.
“I am pleased with how hard we played,
and wins are good but there were times our
execution was pretty shaky at best,” Hogo-
boom said. “It was as little chaotic and
hectic at times, and we fall into that too
easily. I’m proud of how we pulled it
together enough to get the win and send our
seniors out that way at home. Now if we can
find that energy on the road and play less
reckless we will compete down the stretch.”
Philip Halcomb led Delton Kellogg with
12 points. Torren Mapes had 10 points and
Grant McArthur chipped in 9 points.
“Really proud of how Grant responded
to a challenge we gave him earlier to be
more aggressive and I have been wanting
him to display more positive energy,” Hog-
oboom said. “He did that with some really
big defensive plays. Grant hit a big three to
start the fourth quarter, and then followed
that up with another nice move.”
Freshman Tyler Howland followed upthose big plays by McArthur with a three
early in the fourth that had his team up
46-38.
“A technical foul on Martin with 1:30 to
go helped us get a little more breathing
room and we sorta ran the clock out from
there,” Hogoboom said.
Braeden Shanley led Martin with 14
points, but the Clippers’ leader was held to
just three points in the second half all of
them in the third quarter.
DK led the ballgame 17-8 after one
quarter and carried an advantage through-
out the ballgame. The Panthers couldn’t get
comfortable though. Martin went on a 9-
run to tie the ballgame at 19-19 in the sec-
ond quarter, but the Panthers managed to
answer with a 9-0 run of their own.
A buzzer-beating shot at the end of the
first half by Halcomb gave the Panthers
some energy going into the half.
Galesburg-Augusta took the SAC Cen-
tral title this winter with a 10-0 conference
record. Saugatuck was second at 8-2 in the
conference.
Hopkins took a 62-33 non-conference
win over the visiting Panthers in a non-con-
ference ballgame Tuesday night.
“It was a pretty big step up for us on the
schedule, but the kind of team we have to
be ready to compete with as we grow,”
Hogoboom said.
The Vikings led 36-9 at the half after the
bigger, stronger hosts held DK to two
points in the second quarter.
“Although the scoreboard was never in
doubt after that I was proud of how we
worked,” Hogoboom said. “We started to
play with more physicality and did a little
better execution wise on offense.”
DK got 16 points from Halcomb.
Hopkins’ Tristan Perry went over 1,
career points with his 21 against the Pan-
thers. Hopkins also got 12 points from
Micah Estelle.