March 2016 – Page 7

City park bereft of children’s play equipment, only for now

All of the children's play equipment has been removed from the Wayland City Park to make way for the new and for a splash pad. Volunteers and City Department of…

Editor March 21, 2016

Articles

Wayland City, Leighton Twp. voters to decide recycling issue

Voters in the City of Wayland will join a significant number of other municipalities in Allegan County to decide next August on a proposal to pay a $36 per year…

Editor March 21, 2016

Articles

Wayland City Council to seek bids for planning services

The Wayland City Council Monday night agreed to seek requests for proposals for planning services and post them on the city’s web site. The city had been contracting with Wade…

Editor March 21, 2016

Articles

City Council votes to seek DNR grant again for rec trail

The Wayland City Council Monday evening decided to go ahead with plans to submit an application again for a $276,000 Michigan Department of Natural Resources grant to help pay for…

Editor March 21, 2016

Features

WHS Pro Youth Team students attend ABYS Youth Summit

More than 400 students from Allegan and Barry counties attended the third annual Allegan Barry Youth Summit Friday, March 18, at Gun Lake Community Church. The Allegan County Pro Youth…

Editor March 21, 2016

Columns

Monday Moanin’: About Detroit schools, charter schools, tech

(From the blog of Mister Journalism: Reading, Sharing, Discussing, Learning) “Can Detroit schools be stabilized? Ed Tech - who is being served? Are Charter schools Public schools?” By Jeff Salisbury…

Editor March 20, 2016

Columns

The Muck Starts Here: What we’ve learned from the primaries

by Barry Hastings The first lesson was, Maryland residents need not apply (apparently, rightly so). Second came via Ben Carson, viz., The meek shall not inherit the earth (and they'll…

Editor March 20, 2016

Community Notices

More coming and going for downtown Wayland businesses

Though the fire at Giuseppe's Pizza on West Superior Street near the Main intersection occurred in January, the building remains boarded up and there are no signs of life. Owners…

Editor March 20, 2016

Articles

Jayda Gale still on track to open sometime later this year

Despite several delays to iron out issues with financing, all systems now are go for completion of the Jayda Gayle Distillery in downtown Wayland. “We have financing finally, to make…

Editor March 20, 2016

Columns

Yes It Is It’s True: We Americans really are a violent lot

H. Rap Brown became infamous about 48 years ago when he was reported to have said, “Violence is as American as apple pie.” Though he was roundly excoriated for the…

Editor March 19, 2016