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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 — Aug. 26, 1996 Wayland City officials have given Wayland Township 30 days…
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Heat cuts Martin school to half day again Thursday
The oppressive heat wave again has claimed Martin Public Schools as a victim. School officials today announced Martin will have only a half day of classes Thursday, Aug. 26, just…
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Heat, Covid, politics present school opening challenges
As if local school districts Martin, Wayland and Hopkins did not have enough challenges while opening for the school year, now comes oppressive heat that has closed some schools in…
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Continued Covid leaves me and family ‘languishing’
by Denise Dykstra This week I attended our school’s school board meeting. They had some decisions that were being made and I wanted to hear what was going to happen.…
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Wayland schools studying newfangled teaching tool
The Wayland Union school district is examining an online application that promises students better access to virtual instruction. Wayland High School math teachers Linda Anderson Bensyl and Amy Nelson demonstrated…
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Wildcats 2nd in both races at Wayland Invitational
The Grand Rapids Track Club Peregrines won both the boys’ and girls’ divisions of the season-opening Wayland Invitational cross-country meet Monday. GRTC had just 24 team points in the boys’…
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Memorial service Sept. 25 for Hopkins’ Lee Swainston
Lee Swainston, patriarch of the longtime Hopkins family, died Friday, Aug. 20. He was 72. A 1967 graduate of Byron Center High School, he was a Hopkins area dairy farmer…
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Celebration of life Monday for Debbie VanOflen, 66
Deborah “Debbie” Mae VanOflen, age 66, died Saturday, Aug. 21. While she couldn’t communicate in the traditional way because of her cerebral palsy, her smile, her expressions, and her eyes…
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Service pending for Varano Electric owner Tom Varano
Thomas J. Varano, II, 51 of Dorr, died Saturday, Aug. 21, at Metro Health Hospital Born Oct.16, 1969,kj in Kalamazoo, he was the son of Geraldine “Jerri” Sinkler and the…
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Wildcats get off to fast start in tennis with 8-0 victory
The Wayland High School boys' tennis team came out the gate fast for the start of the 2021 season by blanking Otsego in their home opener Monday night. Coach Ben Adams…