Jacob Montgomery had the odds stacked against him going into Saturday’s Division 2 state track finals at Forest Hills Eastern’s Hawk Stadium. While Montgomery, an Ionia junior, was the No. 10 seed in the 800-meter run, he literally had people stacked against him at the start of his race.
The Daily News was honored with 37 awards for news, sports, design and advertising in the Michigan Press Association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest, the results of which were was announced on Thursday. The Daily News received 21 awards for advertising and 16 awards for editorial work from 2021 and 2022, including second place for Class D Newspaper of the Year (the Daily News took first place in this category for seven years prior) and second place statewide for Daily Newspaper Excellence in Advertising.