December 2024 – Page 7

WHS grad scores her 1,000th college point

Former Wayland High School basketball standout Stephanie Ainsworth registered her 1,000th career point for Cornerstone Universty in the team's first game this season. Ainsworth, a senior center for the Golden…

Editor December 7, 2024

Obituaries

Service is Dec. 13 for Gayle Lee Truax Stevens

Gayle Lee Stevens, a 1966 graduate of Wayland High School, died Thursday, Dec. 5. She was 77. She was born Sept. 30, 1947, to Gale and Margaret Truax of Hopkins.…

Editor December 7, 2024

Features

Lt. Scott Glupker is top Medical First Responder

The annual Wayland Area Emergency Medical Services (EMS) banquet was held Thursday night and Leighton Fire Department Lt. Scott Glupker was recognized as Medical First Responder of the year. "We…

Editor December 6, 2024

Sports

Wildcats’ smothering defense subdues Hopkins

Macy Thorne Wayland’s signature smothering pressure defense led the way for the girls’ basketball team’s third straight blowout victory in the young season. The Wildcats defeated Hopkins 52-13, making things…

Editor December 6, 2024

Editorial

A’int nothin’ we can do about the power outage

ACHTUNG: This is not a “fair and balanced” article. It is an editorial by the editor. There’s been a lot of chatter about Consumers Energy’s plans for a deliberate power…

Editor December 6, 2024

Features

Wayland students join tech program in Lansing

Three Wayland Union Schools students were invited to the Student Technology Showcase Wednesday in Lansing. The conference was an opportunity for student-led teams from around the state to demonstrate best…

Editor December 6, 2024

Obituaries

Service was held earlier today for Ivan Mac Sooy

Ivan Mac Sooy, died at his residence in Orangeville Monday, Dec. 2. He was 83. He was born on Nov. 29, 1941, in PlainwelI, the son of Arthur L. and…

Editor December 5, 2024

Columns

Army Bob: There was a coverup in Biden’s pardon

President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. pardoned his son Robert Hunter Biden for gun crimes; but aren’t gun crimes, gun violence the worst? Aren’t guns evil? The socialist media is trying…

Editor December 5, 2024

Community Notices

Snow thunderstorm plays havoc, closes schools

All area schools and businesses were closed Thursday because of a winter storm that included snow thunder and dumped as many as five inches of the white stuff.. The Allegan…

Editor December 5, 2024

Community Notices

Will Dorr Colonial Kitchen become Mexican eatery?

Word on the street is that Bell’s Colonial Kitchen, in Dorr, which closed recently, has been purchased by a Hispanic couple from Fennville, fueling speculation it will reopen as a…

Editor December 4, 2024