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May 20, 2016, is target date for splash pad, city park renovations

It's official now, plans for renovating the Wayland City Park, including a splash pad for kids now have the target date for completion set at May 20, 2016. City Manager…
Posted by Editor August 3, 2015
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Fire district discussion will be held Aug. 13 at Yankee Springs

The City of Wayland, Wayland Township, Yankee Springs Township and perhaps Hopkins and Leighton townships will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13, at the Yankee Springs Township Hall to…
Posted by Editor August 3, 2015
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Foreclosed house on West Superior may be sold by city after all

The old dilapidated house at 430 W. Superior St. may have a buyer after all, but more negotiations are probable for the City of Wayland. The Wayland City Council sought…
Posted by Editor August 3, 2015
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Yes It Is, It’s True: I just don’t think climate change is a joke

“Rows and flows of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way. “But now they only block the sun,…
Posted by Editor August 3, 2015
Posted inObituaries

Hopkins, Gun Lake community activist Joan Weick passes at 73

Joan K. Weick (Iciek), 73 died Saturday, Aug. 1. Born in January 1942, in Hopkins, Joan was afflicted with juvenile diabetes at the age of 13. Unwilling to let her…
Posted by Editor August 3, 2015
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Monday Moanin’: Sit down and deliver, or I could be fired!

by Jeff Salisbury jeffreylsalisbury@gmail.com In the 1988 film “Stand and Deliver,” actor Edward James Olmos portrayed educator Jaime Escalante’s inspired teaching of his AP Calculus students in East Los Angeles. Olmos, as Escalante lit…
Posted by Editor August 2, 2015
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The Muck Starts Here: Will Trump get trumped in GOP race?

by Barry Hastings The Donald. What an ass. A racist. A magnifier of truth, dealer in innuendo. (Hopefully) destroyer of the GOP. He took off on John McCain a short…
Posted by Editor August 2, 2015
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Visitation, funeral for Patt DeHaan, 57, both will be Tuesday

Patrice De Haan, 57, of Wayland, died Friday, July 31. Patt was born Sept. 25, 1957, in Columbus, Ohio, to the Rev. Hubert and Barbara (Swartz) Sprik. A dairy farmer's…
Posted by Editor August 1, 2015
Posted inObituaries

No funeral service scheduled for Harvey Hoke, 76, of Cobb Lake

Harvey Hoke, 76, died of cancer at his home on Cobb Lake Wednesday. Hoke was born in Grand Rapids on March 15, 1939, to Lois (Murray) and Earl Hoke He…
Posted by Editor August 1, 2015
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‘Get Moving’ Tuesday to highlight free summer meals week

Northern Physical Therapy will have a “Get Moving” family fitness event at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Steeby Elementary to highlight this coming week’s summer free lunch program. The fitness event,…
Posted by Editor August 1, 2015

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