September 2022 – Page 10

Airborne car driver charged with cocaine use in crash

A motorist who drove an airborne car that soared over the Dorr expressway overpass has been charged with driving under the influence of cocaine last Jan. 13. Chandler Cockerham, then…

Editor September 7, 2022

Articles

National media plans to visit Gun Lake’s Curly Cone

The Gun Lake eatery got its start in 1954 as Kirk's Kurly Kones, a drive-in ice cream shop near the corner of Patterson and Chief Noonday Roads at the Barry-Allegan…

Editor September 7, 2022

Obituaries

Funeral will be Saturday for Richard VanDerMeer, 88

Richard Martin VanDerMeer of Hopkins died Monday, Sept. 5, at Briarwood Assisted Living in Allegan. He was 88. Richard was born in Holland, MI, on Dec. 16, 1933, to his…

Editor September 7, 2022

Articles

City Council deals death blow to golf cart proposal

Advocates for golf cart use in the City of Wayland were dealt a setback Tuesday night when the City Council voted 4-2 against drawing up an ordinance. Council members Rick…

Editor September 6, 2022

Features

Wayland was represented in walk on the ‘Mighty Mac’

Among the many participants in the annual Labor Day Mackinac Bridge Walk were Coralie Ritz Miller (lower right) and kin, who arose bright and early Monday to join the traditional…

Editor September 5, 2022

Columns

Ex-Allegan Mayor could really shake ’em down

John Hotchkiss “All the memories came flooding back… Old Mrs. McAvoy eating that horrible chicken… and the terrified child running from the burning wreck.” — Vivian Stanshall, 1972, “Rawlinson End.”…

Editor September 5, 2022

Articles

Wayland Police Chief says he will retire, take new job

Mark Garnsey Wayland Police Chief Mark Garnsey has announced his retirement from police work. Wayland's chief for the past four year has said he has had family, friends and business…

Editor September 4, 2022

Columns

One Small Voice: Mending old books is a labor of love

by Lynn Mandaville Aside from any day which I can spend with my grandboys, Tuesdays and Fridays are the most satisfying of my days. They are the days I spend…

Editor September 4, 2022

Obituaries

Son of former WHS track coach takes his own life

Danny Bolhuis, son of former Wayland High School teacher and track and wrestling coach Dan Bolhuis, took his own life Monday, Aug. 29. Danny was born on Oct. 17, 1996,…

Editor September 2, 2022

Sports

Wildcats, Martin both 2-0; Hopkins bounces back

All three area varsity football teams wound up in the winning column Friday night, and the verdicts all were kind of special. Wayland improved to 2-0 on the season with…

Editor September 1, 2022