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TOWNSHIP OF HOPE2024 NOTICE OF BOARD OF REVIEW
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Board of Review will meet at the Township
Hall, 5463 M-43 Hwy., Hastings, MI 49058 to examine and review the 2024 as-
sessment roll. The board will convene on the following dates for the hearing of
appeals of assessments or taxable values, poverty exemptions, parcel classifi-
cation appeals and/or current year qualified agricultural denials:Tuesday, March 5, 2024, 11:30 am Organizational Meeting
Monday, March 11, 2024, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
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of the desire to be heard until assessment rolls have been revised, corrected and
approved.APPEALS ARE HEARD ON FIRST COME FIRST SERVE BASIS; letter appeals
will be accepted and must be received no later than 5:00 pm the Friday before the
first appeal hearing.Tentative ratios and estimated multipliers for 2024 are as follows:
Agricultural 44.47% 1.
Commercial 47.43% 1.
Industrial 46.92% 1.
Residential 42.02% 1.
Personal Property 50.00% 1.Tentative equalization factor of 1.0000 for all classes is
expected after completion of Board of Review.Doug Peck, Supervisor Hope Township
Kevin Harris, Assessor Hope TownshipHope Township Board Meetings are open to all without regard to race, color,
national origin, sex or disability.American with Disabilities (ADA) Notice
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individuals with disabilities at the meeting/hearing upon seven (7) days’ notice
to Hope Township. Individuals with disabilities requiring auxiliary aids or services
should contact Castleton Township by writing or calling.Hope Township Clerk
5463 M-43 Hwy.
Hastings, MI 49058
269-648-Trojans get regional runs
in on Caberfae slopes
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
It has been hit or miss on the slopes this
winter, but the Plainwell/Thornapple Kellogg
Trojan Ski team got in its runs at the MHSAA
Division 2 Regional hosted by Caberfae
Peaks Monday.
The Plainwell/TK boys placed 11th and
the girls 12th in the final team standings on
the day.
Liam Troutner had the top individual finish
of the day for the Trojan team with a 28th-place
performance in his slalom competition. He
had runs of 28.78 seconds and 29.26.
The Plainwell/TK boys also had Robby
Jones place 39th, Sam Bacon 48th and Colin
Gritter 49th in the slalom.
In the giant slalom, Jones led the way for
the Trojan Ski team with a 45th-place finish.
He had runs of 22.31 and 24.39. Bacon
placed 50th, Gritter 52nd and Gerrit Taber
56th. Troutner had a second run of 22.21, the
fastest slalom run of the day for the Trojans,
but couldn’t make up for a mishap the first
time down.
East Grand Rapids’ Quinn Erwin was the
fastest skier in each of the four guys’ runs of
the day. He was the slalom champion withruns of 22.70 and 23.55. That first run down
was 1.77 seconds faster than any other guy.
He was also the GS champion thanks to runs
of 18.00 and 20.05.
The top three teams and top ten individuals
all qualify for the MHSAA Division 2 Ski
Finals, which will be held at Nubs Nob Feb.- The top four individuals not on the state
qualifying teams in both the slalom and GS
also earned spots in the state finals whether or
not they managed a top ten finish.
Erwin and the Pioneers won the boys’
regional title with just 50 points ahead of
Mattawan 98, West Catholic 110, Cadillac
153, Grand Rapids Christian 192, Forest Hills
Central 196.5, Caledonia 210.5, Hackett
Catholic Prep 309, Lowell 323, Spring Lake
324.5, Plainwell/TK 367, South Haven 401
and Northview 493.
Lillian Warnez led the Plainwell/TK girls
in both events. In the GS, she was 53rd over-
all with runs of 26.46 and 25.21. Amelia
Wynalda placed 55th, Kaitlyn Hodges 58th
and Marian Gielincki 62nd.
In the girls’ slalom, Warnez had times of
35.93 and 36.54 to place 45th overall. Wynal-
da had the fastest slalom run for the Plain-
well/TK girls getting down the hill in 35.
on the first run. She added a 37.11 second run
to place 46th. Alivia Raak was 57th and
Laine Hinton 62nd for the Trojans.
Cadillac’s Onalee Wallis was a fall on the
second run of the slalom from sweeping the
two girls’ races. She had the top time of 24.
the first time down in the slalom, but finished
40th with a second run time of 43.06. East
Grand Rapids’ Hannah Darooge was right
behind Wallis on that first run in 24.50 and
then took the slalom victory with a time of
25.03 on the second run.
Wallis won the GS with runs of 20.41 and
18.55. Her teammate Avery Meyer was sec-
ond with times of 20.87 and 18.64. Darooge
placed third in the GS with runs of 21.22 and
19.25.
Cadillac won the girls’ regional title with
44 points ahead of Mattawan 60, East Grand
Rapids 101, Grand Rapids Christian 130,
Forest Hills Central 188, Grand Rapids Cath-
olic Central 198, Hackett Catholic Prep 211,
Spring Lake 286, Caledonia 330.5, Lowell
418, Northview 436, Plainwell/TK 438 and
South Haven 531.
The Trojan Ski Club had a Senior Night
race planned for Wednesday, Feb. 14, at Tim-
ber Ridge.Beavers and Mounties overcome
Saxons in second half
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The scorebook lists three straight Inter-
state-8 Athletic Conference defeats in five
days, but there were positives throughout for
the Hastings varsity girls’ basketball team.
The stretch stared with a 46-29 defeat at
Harper Creek Friday evening in conference
play, and then the Saxons lost back-to-back
ballgames at home Monday and Tuesday to
Jackson Northwest and Parma Western.
Hastings head coach Chase Youngs said he
thought the Saxons played some of their best
ball of the entire season during the stretch,
especially Monday in a 5-38 loss to the visit-
ing Mounties.
Jackson Northwest is currently 14-3 and
leads the Interstate-8 Athletic Conference
with a 9-1 record.
As has happened here and there, a late
scoring drought cost the Saxons. Northwest
led the ballgame 24-16 at the half, but Hast-
ings rallied to get within 31-30 heading into
the fourth quarter with a 14-7 run in the third.
Olivia Friddle had eight points in the third
quarter and ten in the second half to help the
Saxons more than keep pace early in the sec-
ond half. She finished with ten points.
Rachael Hewitt had a team-high 14 points for
the Saxons. She had six in the fourth quarter.Kalli Koning had six points and Adeline
Nickels five in the loss.
Coach Youngs was pretty pleased with the
defensive effort on Northwest’s Mara Mitchell,
led in part by Nickels. He was really pleased
with everyone’s effort highlighting the perfor-
mances of Kimber Fenstemaker, Hewitt, Frid-
dle and Madilynn Peake off the bench too.
Mitchell did finish with 20 points to lead
the Mounties. She had eight in the fourth
quarter to help her team seal the victory Ash-
ley Weller chipped in ten points. Brooke
Grant had eight points.
The Saxons couldn’t keep pace late at
Harper Creek last Friday either.
Hastings shot out to a 12-3 lead in the first
quarter in Battle Creek and led 19-17 at the half,
but scored just ten points in the second half.
Coach Youngs was pleased with the box-
and-one defense his girls ran to slow down
the Beavers’ Ella Chantrenne a bit. She fin-
ished with 12 points, the only double-digit
scorer for her team.
The Beavers’ length continued to be a chal-
lenge for the Saxons to deal with as it was in
the first meeting between the two teams. Foul
trouble didn’t help the Saxons either.
Hewitt had a team-high 12 points for
Hastings, but just two in the second half.
Victoria Tack and Fenstemaker had five
points apiece and Peake finished with four.Junior Leina Schweickert and Peake both hit
threes in the third quarter for their team’s
only points of the period.
“We made some shots at the beginning
against Harper,” Youngs said. “I appear to be
a better coach when they make shots. If you
go back to Coldwater, Harper and Northwest
we have really started playing a lot better.
We’re not getting wins, but teams are not
getting a night off when they play us. They
haven’t quit. Which is something that is easy
for a team that has three wins to do, to mail it
in to the end of the season.”
Playing on back-to-back nights, the Saxons
didn’t keep pace with the Parma Western girls
Tuesday who took a 68-15 win at Hastings
High School.
Hewitt had seven points in the loss.
Rayah Hitt led the Panthers with 17 points.
Kaia Bruneel had 13 points and Bayli Stewart
finished with ten.
“Parma, that’s as good of a high school
basketball team as I have seen in person,”
Youngs said.
The Saxons get another crack at Northwest
Friday, Nov. 16, and then will be home for
ballgames with Pennfield Feb. 20 and Mar-
shall Feb. 23.
The Hastings girls are 3-13 overall and 1-
in the I-8 heading into the rematch with the
Mounties.Plainwell/Thornapple Kellogg's Kaitlyn Hodges works her way down the hill at Caberfae Peaks during the MHSAA Division 2
Regional meet Monday. (Photo by Eric Hodges)Saxon senior guard Adeline Nickels (1)
attacks the rim past Harper Creek's Alyssa
Smith (3) and Camille Robinson (10)
during their Interstate-8 Athletic Conference
contest Friday night at Harper Creek High
School. (Photo by Perry Hardin)The Saxons' Victoria Tack (21) blows
by Harper Creek’s Izzie Miller( 35) in the
first half of their Friday night matchup at
Harper Creek High School in Battle
Creek. (Photo by PerryHardin)
between the regular season meeting and the
Vikings’ district championship win.
Lakewood would also get pins in the dual
from Bryson Boucher at 150 pounds and
Calder Villanueva at 175 pounds before Agu-
ilera put on the finishing touch.
With the two forfeits at the end though,
both teams won seven weight classes, mean-
ing even the defeats were key to making the
difference on the scoreboard.
“We added [assistant coach] Lane Allen to
our roster this year. He wrestled with in 2017
and he is just so analytical,” Harmer said.
“He is hungry for it. He wants the kids to
experience what he did. He made the state
meet back when he was in high school, I
made the state meet. We got talking and we
said we have to get something going for
them. So, he is all about match-ups, looking,
bouncing. Him and I stressed each other out
for the last week and a half ... bouncing ideas
back and forth ... I have a great coaching
staff. That is what it really boils down to.”
Jonathan Krebs put up a good fight bumped
up against Portland’s Landon Guilford who
took a 3-1 win in their 157-pound match.
That wasn’t necessarily a spot the Vikings
were looking to just hold serve, but a few
other guys really did their job in defeats.
Even though he clearly really wanted to
push for a victory in the end, the Viking cor-
ner convinced Lydon Rogers to play things
safe in a 4-2 loss to Portland’s Liam Spitzley
in the 144-pound match. Spitzley had a 4-
lead going into the third period and a reversal
by Rogers kept him in good position.
In the 165-pound match, Lakewood’s Chris
Webb managed to fight off a pin in the final
minute against the Raiders’ Brad Meyers who
took a 12-4 major decision with his late three
nearfall points. At 190 pounds, the Vikings’
Levi Frizzell did an outstanding job of keep-
ing Portland’s Bryce Fullet from turning him
over in what went in the books as a 12-
Raider major decision.
“They had beaten us three years in a row.
Every year, it is stress. I lose years off my
life, and the same thing with [Portland head
coach Andrew Pulling] too,” Harmer said.
“After all this is said and done, we hang out,
we work together, we practice together and it
is just – it is what it is when it comes district
time. We’re good friends, and that is what
makes this even a little bit tougher.”
Portland reached the district final with a
51-24 win over Central Montcalm in the dis-
trict’s opening round match.
The Vikings were in Alma Saturday, Feb.
10, for their MHSAA Division 3 Individual
District Tournament.
Simon ran his season record to 30-1 by
winning the 215-pound weight class. He
pinned his first two foes in a total of one min-
ute and 47 seconds and then took an injury
forfeit win in the championship round.
Krebs took the 144-pound championship
with three technical falls on his way to the
championship round where he pinned Swan
Valley’s Matthew Adams in 47 seconds.
Lakewood has a total of seven guys through
to the individual regional round of the state
tournament which will be hosted by Howard
City Tri County Saturday, Feb. 17.
Kade Boucher took a runner-up finish at
126 pounds for the Vikings, Stamm at 120
pounds and Bryson Boucher at 138 pounds
both placed third. Rogers at 144 pounds and
Vincent Risk at 165 both placed fourth.VIKINGS, continued from page 9 ––––––––––––––––––––
Saxons get handful past individual district in D
Hastings is sending five guys to the
MHSAA Division 1 Individual Wrestling
Regional at Holt Saturday thanks to their top-
four finishes in the district at Jackson High
School last Saturday.
Keegan Sutfin took the one individual dis-
trict championship for Hastings, at 144
pounds.
Troy Hokanson was the regional runner-up
at 106 pounds, Isaac Friddle at 215 pounds
and Colton Smith at 132 both placed third.The Saxon team also had Jordan Humphrey
fourth at 113 pounds.
Sutfin took an 11-4 win over Ayden Mosh-
er from Holt in the 144-pound championship
match. He cruised into the semifinals with an
opening round pins and a technical fall in the
quarterfinals. In the 144-pound semifinal,
Sutfin took a 7-2 win over Brighton’s Kaden
Tindall.
Hokanson pinned his quarterfinal and semi-
final opponents to reach the championshipmatch where he was bested by Brighton’s
Ethan Smith 10-5 for his first defeat of the
season. Hokanson is now 45-1 on the year.
The Saxons had five individuals place in
the top 4 and qualify for individual regionals.
Keegan Sutfin won the team’s one champion-
ship on the day. Troy Hokanson was run-
ner-up in his weight. Colton Smith and Isaac
Friddle placed 3rd. Jordan Humphrey placed
4th. These five wrestlers will compete in indi-
vidual regionals next Saturday at Holt.