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TOWNSHIP OF BALTIMORE2024 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 2024 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 5, 2024, 1:00 pm Organizational Meeting
Hearings will be the week of March 10, 2024
Monday, March 11, 2024, 9:00 am to 12 noon and 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 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 13th,
2024.Tentative ratios and estimated multipliers for 2024 are as follows:
Agricultural 42.91% 1.
Commercial 44.72% 1.
Industrial 47.69% 1.
Residential 40.98% 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
Jana Harding Bishop
3100 E Dowling Rd
Hastings, MI 49058
269.378-Hastings girls finish off their
sweep of Interstate-8 season
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The Hastings varsity competitive cheer
team clinched their fourth Interstate-8 Athlet-
ic Conference Championship by finishing off
a sweep of the conference competitions on
their home mat Wednesday, Feb. 7.
Hastings outscored runner-up Jackson
Northwest by nearly 60 points putting up a
total of 711.12 points.
Jackson Northwest was second with a
score of 652.76 ahead of Pennfield 595.5,
Harper Creek 593.3 and Parma Western
573.72.
“I cannot say enough about the strength
and versatility of this team,” Hastings head
coach Linsey Jacinto said. “We have been
able to sub different team members in and out
of all three rounds with very little impact. We
made a switch in round two just before going
out on the mat at the conference finals and
had one of our best rounds yet.”
The Saxons put together scores of 221.
points in round one and then 193.32 in round
two. They finished off their day with a score
of 296.6 in round three.
Northwest was second in all three rounds
to earn the runner-up spot. The Mounties had
scores of 209.6 in round one, 179.06 in round
two and 264.1 in round three.
Hastings was as little better overall on the
scoreboard as it placed third in one last post-
season tune-up Saturday at the Mason Invita-
tional.
Mason won the Division 1/2 competition
with an overall score of 764.84 ahead of St.Johns 730.22, Hastings 713.02, Mt. Pleasant
685.58 and Holt 577.34.
The Saxons had scores of 229.5 in round
one, 190.32 in round two and 293.2 in round
three.
Hastings now heads to Gull Lake High
School Friday for its MHSAA Division 2
District Tournament.
“We are cleaning the fine details and really
working on round two heading into districts,”
Jacinto said. “Alumni and outside family and
friends have been coming to practice to help
and get fresh eyes on the rounds. The team is
confident and ready to hit the mat on Friday
in Gull Lake.”
The top four teams from the district
advance to the following weekend’s regional
round of the state tournament.Delton grapplers outdo
Saranac to win D4 district
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Seniors bookended the Delton Kellogg
varsity wrestling team’s first team district
championship since 2021 Thursday at Bellev-
ue High School.
Delton Kellogg head coach Dan Phillips
got a good feeling when he noticed.
Panther senior Michael Bhola was pinned
by Saranac’s Joe Lauer in the 215-pound bout
to start the MHSAA Division 4 Team District
Final at Bellevue High School, but coach
Phillips said he set the tone for his team with
his effort in the loss.
Delton Kellogg’s only other senior, Luke
Watson finished off a 63-18 win for the
Delton Kellogg team with a pin of Saranac’s
Whyatt Hicks late in the first period of their
190-pound bout.
In between, Delton Kellogg got a pin from
Mitchell Swift at 285 pounds, AJ Lorenz at
113 pounds, Gauge Stampfler at 132 pounds,
Griffyn Harmon at 138, Tucker Tack at 150
and Austyn Lipscomb at 165 pounds.
The Delton Kellogg team took two forfeit
wins and also added a 4-2 win by 157-pound-
er Mendon Phillips over Landen Winsor in
the 157-pound bout.
Delton Kellogg opened its day with a
54-12 win over Maple Valley in the district
semifinals.
Swift, Harmon and Tack had pins for the
Panthers in a dual that had just four contested
weight classes.
DK got forfeit wins fro Lorenz at 113
pounds, Corban Antolovich at 120, Olivia
Post at 126, Stampfler at 132, Mendon Phil-
lips at 150 and Lipscomb at 157 pounds.
Maple Valley’s lone win on the mat came
thanks to a pin from Jackson Burpee in his
190-pound bout with Watson. Skyler Cook
took a forfeit win for Maple Valley at 215
pounds.
Coach Phillips said wrestling in the tough
Southwestern Athletic Conference his Pan-
thers really set their sights on using that con-
ference season as preparation for a district
championship run.
“I was really impressed with the level of
intensity they came out with,” coach Phil-
lips said.
A couple of tough freshmen middle weightclinched the district title for the Panthers with
Tack getting his pin of Jacob Bollone from
Saranac midway through the third period of
their 150-pound bout and then Mendon Phil-
lips getting his two-point decision at 157.
It has been, and continues to be, an outstand-
ing season for the Delton Kellogg youngsters.
The Panther team got eight wrestlers through
its MHSAA Division 4 Individual Wrestling
District at Bronson Saturday including the two
seniors and six underclassmen. Those eight
will wrestle in the individual regional hosted
by Mendon this Saturday, Feb. 16.
The two seniors advanced through the indi-
vidual district with Watson the runner-up at
175 pounds and Bhola placing fourth at 215
pounds.
The DK team had one individual district
champion – Swift. Swift pinned each of his
first two foes in less than a minute to get to
the 285-pound championship match where he
pinned Jonesville’s Cooper Stevens in 3:45.
Swift ran his record to 41-6 and coach
Phillips said he continues on in the state
tournament ranked second in the state in D
at his weight.
“He is just a dominant wrestler,” coach
Phillips said of Swift.
“[Stevens] was pretty tough. He was tough
on his feet. He had watched us and his
defense was pretty tough. He negated some
of the things we do pretty well.”
That was what it took for Stevens to make
it halfway through the second period against
Swift, who started on the bottom and earned
a quick reversal before getting the pin.
Delton Kellogg also had Kayle Mclellan
the runner-up at 106 pounds, TJ Wright
fourth at 113, Antolovich at 120, Stampfler
third at 132 and Harmon third at 138.
Coach Phillips was pretty impressed with
is young lightweights. Mclellan wasn’t the
starter at 106 pounds for the Panther varsity
to start the season, but worked his way into
that position and now into the regional round
of the state tournament. He said Wright and
Antolovich wrestled especially well too.
Maple Valley was as part of the district
tournament in Bronson too. Burpee was the
lone top four medalist to earn a spot in this
weekend’s regionals. He placed second at
190 pounds.Wayland beats out TK in
D2 wrestling district
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Wayland widened the gap between itself
and the Thornapple Kellogg varsity wrestling
team Thursday night.
The Wildcats took a three-point win in
their OK Gold Conference dual this season,
on their way to a conference championship,
but stretched the difference to 5-19 as they
outscored the Trojans in the MHSAA Divi-
sion 2 Team District Final at Wayland Union
High School Thursday.
TK opened the conference dual between
the two teams with wins at 126 pounds, 132,
138 and 144. The Wildcats won all four of
those weight classes to bookend their district
win.
The Wildcats won ten of the 14 weight
classes. The Trojans got pins from Blake
Bossenberger at 175 pounds and Jayce Curtis
at 1 90 pounds in the middle of the dual, and
they added a 5-09 win by Jimmy Manne over
Zephan Shafer in the 285-pound bout and a
14-3 major decision by Christien Miller over
Ryan Kious at 113 pounds.
Wayland won the first four bouts of the
final. Danny Kenna knocked off TK’s Griffin
Grummet 14-6 at 138 pounds and his team-
mate CJ Nesbit followed up with an 11-8 win
over Camden Peter at 144.
Pins by Henry Maass at 150 pounds, Elijah
Weaver at 157 and Lane Button at 165
bumped the Wildcat lead to 25-0 to start
things off.
Wayland would add pins by Trent Sikkema
at 215 pounds, Jody Bitner at 106 pounds and
Rex Emmorey at 126 pounds as well as a
major decision for Miles Nesbit at 120 and a
win by Ty Langley at 132 to finish things off.
Thornapple Kellogg got by Godwin
Heights in the opening round of its MHSAA
Division 2 Team District Tournament with a
65-15 victory over the Wolverines. Wayland
took a 73-6 opening round win over Grand
Rapids Christian to get to the final.
Griffin Grummet got the TK team its first
points in the dual with Godwin Heights, out-
scoring DJ Mata 15-0. The rest of the TK
wins came by pin or forfeit – ten of them in
all. Peter, Bossenberger, Curtis, Tanner Bux-
ton, Tom Bewersdorf, Collin Mann and Mill-
er had pins for TK. Micah Dock, Raini Bras-
ka and Caleb Miller took forfeit victories
against voids in the Wolverine line-up.
Wayland had a few close duals, but a one-
point win over Cedar Springs this season was
enough to get the Wildcats a share of the
2024 OK Gold Conference championship
when coupled with a runner-up finish to theRed Hawks at the conference tournament
Feb. 2 in Middleville.
The TK wrestlers headed to Lowell for
their MHSAA Division 2 Individual District
Tournament Saturday and Miller and Curtis
earned spots in the regional round of the indi-
vidual state tournament with their top four
medal winning performances.
Curtis won the 165-pound weight class. He
pinned Lowell’s Seth Harvey in the champi-
onship match at their flight after sticking each
of his first three foes too.
Curtis needed less than a minute to pin
Will Vanden Berg from Grand Rapids Chris-
tian and Troy Postema from Zeeland West in
his first two matches. He pinned Hamilton’s
Tyler Block with 31 seconds left on the clock
in the third period of their semifinal bout.
Miller placed third in the 113-pound weight
class. Miller was pinned by Holland’s Aiden
Segovia in the third period of their quarterfi-
nal match to start the day and then wrestled
all the way through the consolation bracket to
advance.
Miller pulled out a 9-7 win over Ionia’s
Chad Campell in the first round of consola-
tion and then pinned Hamilton’s Ethan Good-
win in the blood round, the consolation semi-
finals. Miller got another shot at Segovia in
the match for third place and took an 8-6 win.
Thornapple Kellogg 215-pounder Abram
Dutcher and 165-pounder Blake Bossenberg-
er both reached the blood round before bow-
ing out of the state tournament.
Miller and Curtis will head to Allendale for
their MHSAA Division 2 Individual Wres-
tling Regional Saturday, Feb. 16.The Hastings High School varsity competitive cheer team whoops it up with its conference championship trophy after winning
the Interstate-8 Athletic Conference Final at Hastings High School Wednesday, Feb. 7.
The Delton Kellogg varsity wrestling team celebrates with its trophy after winning
the MHSAA Division 4 Team District Tournament hosted by Bellevue Thursday. The
Panthers defeated Maple Valley and Saranac to win the district title.Thornapple Kellogg's Griffin Grummet moves Godwin Heights' DJ Mata around the
mat during their 138-pound bout in the MHSAA Division 2 District Semifinal at Wayland
Union High School Thursday, Feb. 8. (Photo by Brett Bremer)Thornapple Kellogg's Blake Bossenberger works to try and earn a take down early
on in his 165-pound bout with Godwin Heights' Cameron Overton in the MHSAA
Division 2 Team District Semifinal at Wayland Union High School Thursday. (Photo by
Brett Bremer)