November 2021 – Page 7

Wildcat slugger Kennedy Cole to play at Kent State

Wayland High School senior Kennedy Cole has announced she has signed a letter of intent to continue her softball career at Kent State University. Cole was the leading home run…

Editor November 10, 2021

Articles

Boundary Commission gets comments on annexation

A public hearing Wednesday night on a request from mostly property owners in Hopkins Township turned out to be exactly that — a public hearing. There was no “torches and…

Editor November 10, 2021

Features

Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County

(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now historical library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — Nov. 11, 1996 The Globe, in honor of Veterans Day, published a…

Editor November 10, 2021

Community Notices

Covid closes Hopkins schools Nov. 11-12, 22-26

Hopkins Public Schools will be closed Thursday and Friday this week because of an increase of Covid-19 cases for students and staff. Superintendent Gary Wood announced the move today in…

Editor November 10, 2021

Features

Nine WHS singers qualify for Regional Honors Choir

Nine Wayland High School students have been accepted into the Regional Honors Choir after auditions this month. The nine celebrated singers are Stephen Harnish, Mark Musgrave lll, Aiden Ketchapaw, Christian…

Editor November 9, 2021

Articles

Plan Commission OKs 2 requests, 1 with conditions

The Wayland City Planning Commission Tuesday night gave a thumbs up, one with conditions, to two requests that were presented. Getting the green light entirely was a request for an…

Editor November 9, 2021

Features

Civil War widow buried in Wayland Twp. cemetery

The cremains of Wealthy Congdon, wife of a Civil War veteran Lyman Congdon, were buried this week in West Elmwood Cemetery, Wayland Township. Wayland Township Clerk Ann McInerney said local…

Editor November 9, 2021

Columns

Not long ago, not far away, there was a GOP good guy

I’ve been reading some posts lately about Michigan’s Bottle Bill, which, for better or worse, was passed by a state-wide ballot proposal in 1978. To this day, some praise our…

Editor November 9, 2021

Columns

This long-distance runner will never forget journey

by Denise Dykstra It was the honking I found odd. After a full and busy weekend, I was cleaning up the last off the mess in the kitchen and people…

Editor November 9, 2021

Sports

WHS grad helps guide Mich. Tech to C-C nationals

Robert Young (second from left), a 2003 graduate of Wayland High School, is assistant coach for the Michigan Technological University cross-country team that will compete Nov. 20 in the NCAA…

Editor November 8, 2021