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By Ashley WoodrumSpecial Writer

Visitors to the CivilWar Days festival atGordon Hall lastJune had thechance to watch a

game of baseball played alittle different than themodern day equivalent.

The vintage baseballteam, the Chelsea Monitors,are already back in action,but now it’s time for aDexter team.

The Union Base BallClub of Dexter is looking to

start its first year as a vin-tage baseball team.Unfortunately, the name

of Dexter’s baseball clubof the 1860s, the Wahoo

Base Ball Club of Dexter, isbeing used by a Royal Oakteam.

“I chose this namebecause the time that weare representing is aroundthe middle of the 1860s,right when the Civil Warwas ending,” said DonovanHill, co-founder of the base-ball club. “Seeing as howwe fought on the side of theUnion and because therewas a company withinMichigan’s 4th infantrythat fought out of Dextercalled the Dexter UnionGuard, I thought, for the

time we are representing,that Union meant some-thing to Dexter.”

The idea to form the clubstarted when Hill saw the

Chelsea Monitors play lastyear at the Civil War Days.

“I contacted their cluband expressed that I wasinterested in playing andtalked with the Monitorsco-captain, Jon Van Hoek,and over time went out andpracticed with them,” Hillsaid. “At the end of theirseason, Jon asked me if I would be interested instarting a club in Dexterwith his help. We co-found-ed the club together andhave been working on thisfor a couple months now.”

Anyone who is 21 or

older can play the game,which has extremely dif-ferent rules from the waymodern baseball is playedthese days.

For example, a hitteris ruled out if the ball iscaught on the fly or afterthe first bounce on theground, but base runnerscan still advance underthese circumstances. Thereare also no balls or strikes,and a hitter can take asmany swings as they likeuntil they miss the ballthree times.

While vintage baseballstill has nine innings andthe bases are still 90 feetapart, there are no groomeddiamonds, lemon peel ballsare used - and nobody used

gloves back in the 19th cen-tury, so neither do today’svintage baseball enthusi-asts.

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High school adds courses for fallBy Krista GjestlandHeritage Media

The Dexter Board of Education approved theaddition of two new cours-es the Dexter High Schoolcurriculum.

Business math and phys-

ics for the general studentpopulation will be availablefor Dexter High Schoolstudents to take startingfall 2012.

The additional physicscourse will create a entry-level and advanced-level of 

physics course, high schoolprincipal Kit Moran said.

“This will become ourstanding physics courseand then our current phys-ics course will becomeadvanced physics, and thatwill be more math-scienceoriented,” he said.

Moran’s hope is that hav-ing an entry-level coursewill draw more studentsinto physics, which can bean intimidating subject.

“Our hope is to pull somemore kids in to science,”he said. “Physics is a really

good area for kids to study.It’s just scary for somekids.”

Business math offers anoption to students who needa senior math class, butaren’t on a calculus track.

“It’s a class that we reallyneed for generally senior

math kids who are not on apre-calc or AP calc track,”Moran said. “It’s a valuablecourse.”

The business mathcourse should be able touse the same textbooksas another course, Moran

said.“My understanding is

we’re going to be able toutilize the same book thatwe use for financial man-agement,” he said. “It’s notreally going to kill us to addthe course.”

The board scheduled a

special meeting at 7 p.m.Jan. 30 at the CopelandConference Room to fill thesecretary vacancy left byKim Covert.

Covert recently resigned

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Batter up!Jon Van Hoek (center) talks during a 2011 Chelsea Monitor vintage baseball game. Van Hoek co-founded the UnionBase Ball Club of Dexter with Donovan Hill, and the team is looking for players

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By Sean DaltonHeritage Media

Dexter CommunitySchool District officials areenthusiastic about the pros-pect of bringing pedestriantraffic off the shoulders of the narrow Shield Road cor-ridor.

The pedestrian bridge,which spans the distancebetween Dexter HighSchool and Al Ritt Field atCreekside, will be officiallyopened for public use thisspring.

“To get the bridge com-pleted we’re going to have towait until spring, when weget the final crossing mark-ings placed on the pave-ment ... it’s better to placethem when it’s 65 degreesout,” Superintendent MaryMarshall said, while walk-ing the path with GrangerConstruction’s Jerry Brand.

Bussing and special pro-grams like marching bandwill take advantage of thepedestrian bridge’s comple-tion of the district’s campuswalking path connectivity.

The pedestrian path ispart of the 2008 $56 millionbond proposal, included forits overlap in addressing thecategories of student health,safety and ending the highschool’s existence as anisland campus.

Marshall said that safetyconcerns about the existingbridge on Shield Road cou-pled with the shoulders thatbecome undefined and icyduring the winter monthsled to parents and students

calling for the district to cre-ate a solution to what someDexter residents consideredone of the most dangerousroads in the school district.

Brand said that Grangerand the district plan tohave temporary markingsplaced in the coming weeksto help public use of thebridge prior to the district’sintegration of it into schoolfunctions and after-hourprograms such as marchingband participation in sport-ing events.

Typically sheriff ’s depu-ties have had to close off Shield Road entirely andenforce it with manpower,

but the walk signals thatwill be installed upon theproject’s completion willreduce or potentially elimi-nate that necessity.

“Pedestrians just have

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