“Help! I need somebody! Help, not just anybody. Won’t you please, please, help me?” — The Beatles, 1965 My uncle, a Korean War vet, asked me the other day if there are a lot of sea urchins in Bonaire. We leave soon for the month of February there, and I plan to snorkel often. There’s […]
The Wayland Area Emergency Services ambulance operations are the busiest ever and personnel are scrambling to keep up with costs and demands. Penny Post, who represents Dorr Township on the WAEMS Board, said Thursday evening that the service made a record high 4,452 runs in 2019, up from the previous high of 4,043 in 2018.
Colter Rounds, the motorist who caused a traffic crash that killed 17-year-old Wayland High School student Ethan Mutschler has been sentenced to a year in jail. Rounds also was ordered to serve five years or probation in his sentencing Thursday in Kent County Circuit Court. Mutschler, a three-year letterman on the Wayland High School varsity
The search for a successor to retiring Wayland Union Schools Supt. Norman Taylor began in earnest Thursday afternoon and evening with a couple of “public input sessions.” Dr. Rodney Green from the Michigan Association of School Boards, himself a superintendent for 24 years, led a session just after noon at the administration building and in
by Robert M. Traxler In researching this column, I Googled Representative Adam Bennet Schiff, (D-Ca.) and got page after page of hero worship by the media; to sum up the coverage in a few words, “God-like.” Those who openly criticize our President for lying forget Representative Schiff’s open and frequent lies. Remember his statement made
The Hopkins girls’ varsity bowling team continues to roll undefeated in the O-K Silver Conference. The Lady Vikings defeated Kent City on a non-league dual match Monday and then bested Belding Wednesday. The girls beat Belding for the second time, leaving their record still undefeated. The boys struggled, leaving Belding’s boys leading their conference undefeated.
It was a tough day for the Wayland boys’ and girls’ varsity bowling teams Wednesday. The Lady Wildcats lost by a score of 27-3 and the guys went down 29-1. Girls’ coach Eric Bottrall said Zeeland had a solid four bowlers post great scores “and they definitely dominated this match… I think some of our
I plan to vote for Mike Bloomberg in the primary because- he’s taking the fight to the madman. Every one of his public statements amounts to a direct assault on the record of the most dangerous man ever to occupy the Oval Office. Even moderate Republican office-holders fear his wrath. Bloomberg’s record and his wealth make him impervious to Trump‘s slanders. Republicans in the Senate
(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — Feb. 1, 1995 Scott Sullivan, in his contribution to the weekly Soapbox column, gave a number of reasons why he’s not a fan of the Super Bowl. “The halftime show had more hype and bombast than anything
Linda Lue Hays passed died Monday, Jan. 27, after a long illness. She was 77. Linda is remembered as a loving wife, mother, grandmother and friend. Linda was an artist and her talents shone through and influenced many people from the margins of books and notes, to large-scale paintings. She illustrated the places she lived,
