Margaret “Maggie” Bott, sister of the late Helen Jane Helmey, died at age 102 in Grand Rapids Friday, Jan. 18. Mrs. Bott often spent Saturdays working in the office at the Wayland Globe. Maggie was a former president of the Ladies Literary Club, a Civic Theater member and longtime contributor of the Grand Rapids Symphony. […]
“It was a night oh oh what a night. It was it really was such a night.” — Elvis Presley Wayland, on a snowy Snowcoming Friday night, posted perhaps the high school hoops upset of the year with a thrilling 59-53 overtime victory over a Grand Rapids Christian ballclub that entered the game with a
The Belding boys’ and girls’ varsity basketball teams braved the bitter cold and snowy and slippery roads Friday to come to Hopkins to play basketball. Then probably wished they hadn’t. The Black Knights suffered through a dark and stormy night when both visiting squads were clobbered, the boys 87-39 and the girls 64-23. It was
Wayland High School graduate Tess Tobolic Marhofer continues to use her chalk artist skills for quality public projects. Most recently, her illustration was featured in the Journal of Neurosurgery with a case study of a rare pseudoaneurysm treatment. Marhofer, who now lives in Arizona, last year directed a small of group of painters of a
Eugene M. Wright, age 65, died Sunday, Jan, 20. Eugene served his country in the United States Navy. First and foremost, Eugene loved his family dearly. He also had heart for others, and was known to give to many local charities. In his free time, he enjoyed fishing and traveling He is survived by his
Several catalytic converters were stolen from A-1 Asphalt during the early morning hours of Saturday, Jan. 12. Authorities ask that anyone with information regarding similar thefts or who know anything about the perpetrators in the surveillance photo shown, please contact the Wayland State Police at (269) 792-2213.
by Robert M. Traxler No surprise to anyone, it is cold outside, it is winter in Michigan after all. On very cold days my old mind slips to my misbegotten youth and the years spent stationed in Alaska in the early 1970s, from 1970 to 1973, the before the pipeline Alaska. I drove the Alaskan
The 1951 movie “Rashomon” by Japanese master film maker Akira Kurasawa offers the best explanation for what happened last Friday in that now-famous videotaped incident in Washington D.C., showing a confrontation between Catholic school students and a Native American leader. Kurasawa’s masterpiece was a story about four different eyewitness accounts in court of a rape
Jeanette Kooistra, age 88, of Wayland, died Tuesday, Jan. 22. Jeanette will be sorely missed, she was a good mother, grandma and unique individual. She is survived by her daughters, Karen (Phil) Robbennolt, Gloria (Bill) Medendorp; son, Wayne (Cheryl) Kooistra; 13 grandchildren; 20 great grandchildren; siblings, Esther Fincher from Tempe, FL, Alvin (Henrietta) Van Middendorp
The Wayland bowling teams enjoyed the excitement of the Cat’s Den Wednesday afternoon, but both teams lost to visiting Zeeland. Boys’ coach Sherry Milusicak said she appreciated the school spirit to get her charges pumped up. She added Supt. Norm Taylor walked in and got a standing ovation, perhaps because of the snow day he
