Month: December 2021

Case of missing 7-year-old girl has a happy ending

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Area public safety agencies were on alert Friday evening and a search party was organized to locate a missing 7-year-old girl, who eventually was found safe. hn Wayland City Police Chief Mark Garnsey posted on Facebook, "For a couple hours we thought we had a lost 7-year-old who left the...
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County’s Covid death toll increases by 11 in last week

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Eleven more Covid-19-related deaths have been reported over the last week in Allegan County, bringing the cumulative total to 268 since the pandemic began in March 2020. A total of 25 Covid deaths have been reported in the county over the last two weeks. The rate of positivity in testing...
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Editorial

We can run away, but we can’t hide from crime

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ACHTUNG: This is not a “fair and balanced” article. It is an editorial by the editor. A woman at the Dorr Township Board meeting Thursday night posed an important question as to whether a recent rash of local burglaries and car thefts is a troubling consequence of residential growth, urban...
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Dorr Parks Commission has good news and bad news

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Dorr Township Parks Commission member Amanda Winters told the Township Board some good news and some bad news Thursday evening. First the good news: The resurrection of the Christmas in the Park celebration Saturday, Dec. 4, was a big hit. Winters said the event attracted more than 1,000 people. She...
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Columns

Army Bob: It’s time to show Dr. Anthony Fauci the door

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I suggest we replace Dr. Anthony Fauci with a brutally frank, totally truthful medical professional. When will the COVID-19 emergency end? We have been promised by Dr. Fauci several times in the last two years that the end is near. Two weeks to bend the curve, one month total, as...
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Funeral mass will be Dec. 30 for Sharilynn Westfahl

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Sharilynn Bernice Westfahl of Wayland died Tuesday, Dec. 21, at Allegan General Hospital. Sharilynn was raised on her family farm in Hilliards and attended school at St. Stanislaus Catholic School and then graduated from Hopkins High School in 1966. She spent 30 years working for Wayland Union Schools as a...
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Townbroadcast columnist publishes book on Amazon

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Phyllis McCrossin, author of the “Ramblin’ Road” column on Townbroadcast for the past two years, is publishing a book on Amazon. McCrossin, who grew up in Allegan County in Hamilton and graduated from Central Michigan University, has penned “Who Is that Stranger in the Chair?” It’s the story of her...
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Steve Hibbits, Teunissen family kin, dies of Covid

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Steve L. Hibbitts, who had a strong family relationship with the Teunissens in Wayland, died of Covid Tuesday, Dec. 21. He was 51. Steve will be remembered for his huge heart for helping others, the nicknames he gave everyone, always making people laugh, and his love for boating, snowmobiling, and...
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Wayland’s downtown district wins Michigan historic designation

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The Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) has announced that Wayland and two other downtown commercial districts have been added in the National Register of Historic Places. Wayland and downtown districts in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the Ishpeming Main Street Historic District and the Negaunee Downtown Historic District were selected. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer,...
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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) The Wayland High School choir and Director Mrs. Helen Gambee in 1966. 25 Years Ago — Dec. 23, 1996 The Hopkins and Wayland school districts took part in a cooperative holiday food can drive. A group...
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