Month: March 2023

Community Notices

Martin Area Resource Center offers free clothing

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The Martin Area Resource Center clothing program has a lot of decent clothing free and available to anyone . There are no eligibility requirement and no signups. Clients can just walk in during the center's open hours to check out the merchandise. Infants to adult sizes are included. A spokesperson...
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Guest Column: Please vote yes in the May 2 election

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by Erin Stepek Erin Stepek Please vote yes May 2 for our students and the community.  My family was attracted to Wayland as we searched for homes in 2020 for two reasons: proximity to our jobs in both the Grand Rapids area and Kalamazoo, and the strong reputation of its...
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Former WHS bowling coach lands another post

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Bill Holbrook Former Wayland High School girls' varsity bowling coach Bill Holbrook has landed on his feet again. Though his University of Tennessee Southern team was disbanded because of school budget cuts, the William Woods University athletics department named him as the next men's and women's bowling coach, starting April...
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Private services planned for Robert Pawlowski

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Robert John Pawlowski of Shelbyville died from complications of a stroke. He was 91 years old, just two weeks shy of his 92nd birthday. Bob was born to East European immigrants Pitor and Maryana Pawlowski in South Bend, Indiana on March 24, 1931. He was the youngest of seven children....
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Funeral Tuesday for Alice Gibson of Monterey Twp.

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Alice Mae Gibson died Wednesday, March 29, in her family home on 30th Street, Monterey Township. Born in Douglas General Hospital, Douglas, on March 29, 1943, she was the younger of two children born to Edson and Violet (Kuhlman) Gibson. She graduated from Fennville High School in 1961 and married...
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Columns

Army Bob: Woke crazies are told by good folks ‘enough’

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by Robert M. Traxler Well, it is starting to happen, the inevitable backlash to the over-the-top purely dumb Woke movement. If you study history this is a no-brainer; society swings left to an extent that only the 2% who are the most dedicated progressive/socialists/wonks will approve of, then the majority...
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Let’s use technology tool to help teens who need help

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ACHTUNG: This is not a "fair and balanced" article. It is an editorial by the editor. I urge resolutely the Wayland Board of Education to proceed with contracting with the student mental health service provided by the Clayful firm. I recommend it despite acknowledging the program’s shortcomings, as suggested by...
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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) This appears to be a photo from downtown Wayland in the 1950s. 25 Years Ago— March 30, 1998 Wayland elementary schools are taking part in cereal boxtop fund-raisers and have come up with a cumulative total...
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Pesky, persistent winter season just won’t go away

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The persistent winter season that just won't go away continues to plague the West Michigan area. After a couple of balmy springlike sunshiny days Monday and Tuesday, the white stuff came-a-calling again Wednesday morning in a ferocious, but brief burst that didn't even result in. snow sticking to the roadways....
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WHS junior’s art work to be included at KIA show

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Wayland High School junior Olivia Stein has had her artwork accepted into the 2023 High School Area Show exhibition at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. The exhibition will run from April 22 to May 21, with a reception at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 21. Her artwork is a self portrait...
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