Month: May 2021

Lady Wildcats belatedly cut down the nets as champs

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Members of the Wayland girls' varsity basketball team won O-K Gold Conference, District and Regional championships this past winter, but never enjoyed the traditional cutting ceremony they bring. So the girls and head coach Wes Hudson did just that at their banquet Wednesday evening outdoors to avoid having to wear...
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Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County

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(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — May 15, 1996 The Moline Thimble Circle Eighteen hot air balloons were spotted flying over Wayland during the past weekend during the annual Dahlia Springfest. Festival chairman Jeff Salisbury was treated to...
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One Small Voice: We must work together to beat fears

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by Lynn Mandaville The other day, as I was beginning another day of home schooling my grandsons, their father Randy (my son) firmly told the older one, Jack, that he couldn’t show me his new Nintendo Switch game until all that  day’s lessons had been completed.  Then he left for...
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Lady Wildcats in driver’s seat to regain O-K Gold title

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Emma Ludema With three doubleheaders left this season, the Wayland High School varsity softball team is closing in on regaining the O-K Gold Conference championship. The Lady Wildcats, on a mission this spring, swept a doubleheader Tuesday at home against Forest Hills Eastern, 15-0 and 22-0, to hike their league...
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Martin High School grad Bret Sunnerville dies at 56

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Bret Sunnerville, a 1982 graduate of Martin High School, died Monday, May 10, at Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo. He was born June 1, 1964, in Plainwell, the son of Ernest and Jerrilyn (Pell) Sunnerville. Bret was raised on the family dairy farm where he loved to ride horses and...
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Henrietta Martha Zandstra of Gun Lake dies at age 100

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Henrietta Martha Zandstra died Thursday, May 6, at the age of 100. She experienced the Great Depression, two world wars, advances in human rights, science and technology, so many things she could never have envisioned. I was born in Hull, Iowa, on Jan. 15, 1921, in her parents’ home, she...
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Hopkins state FFA reporter is national officer candidate

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Stephanie Harvey Stephanie Harvey of Hopkins, State Reporter for the Michigan FFA, has been selected as Michigan's National Officer Candidate! She will spend the upcoming months preparing for a rigorous selection process in hopes to serve as a National FFA Officer.
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Wildcat boys take 4-3 mark into O-K Gold track meet

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The Wayland boys’ varsity track team scored a resounding 97-39 victory over O-K Gold Conference rival Grand Rapids Ottawa Hills Tuesday, but the girls’ squad was defeated 86-51. The highlight for the boys was outstanding individual performances. Ian Thompson captured the 100-meter dash and the long jump. Tim Wierckz took...
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Plan Commission gives OK to housing, storage plans

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The Wayland City Planning Commission Tuesday evening recommended rezoning for a proposed residential development on 133rd Avenue and approved a site plan for a second storage unit business on Reno Drive. The commission held a public hearing on rezoning two parcels along 133rd from agricultural to residential, from R-A to...
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Allegan County Covid rates decline, but deaths are up

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The death toll from the Coronavirus in Allegan County has climbed by four more since Friday, reaching a total of 138 since the pandemic began 13 months ago. However, statistics demonstrate a mixed bag, as the rate of daily new cases over the past seven days has dropped below 30...
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