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Middle school students aid in recycling chores

Students in Cassie Peereboom's class at Wayland Middle School have been working together with peers to empty recycling bins weekly for other teachers. This helps develop collaboration skills among peers,…

Editor December 9, 2024

Features

Hopkins students, staff finish holiday toys drive

Students, staff and teachers last Friday completed the Epic Toy Drive. Hopkins High School teacher Jason Babiak coordinated the effort to collect toys and send them to Helen DeVos Children's…

Editor December 9, 2024

Obituaries

Dorr native, boating expert’s funeral online

Paul Thomas Howard died Nov. 30, after a year-long battle with cancer. He was 80 years old. Paul was a builder, author, sailor, adventurer, thinker, leader, endlessly patient teacher, fixer…

Editor December 8, 2024

Columns

Traditional Irish dish Colcannon is very tasty

by Kathy Hamman Miller Colcannon is a very tasty, traditional Irish dish made of potatoes, cabbage and kale. If you’re looking to bring a dish to pass that would be…

Editor December 8, 2024

Columns

Yes It’s True: Outage was inconvenience, not crisis

The power in our house went out at 11:20 p.m. and it was restored at about 4:30 a.m., making it a five-hour, not seven-hour outage, I checked around the community…

Editor December 8, 2024

Sports

Wildcat ladies finish 2nd in pre-conference event

The Wayland girls' varsity bowling team, just like the boys, took second in the O-K Gold pre-conference tournament at Hudsonville, The Wildcat ladies missed first place by just 21 pins,…

Editor December 7, 2024

Sports

Wildcats take 2nd in pre-conference tourney

The Wayland boys’ varsity bowling team captured second place Friday in the Pre-Conference (O-K Gold) Pre-Tournament at Hudsonville. Northview (Division 2 state runner-up in 2023-24 and now a member of…

Editor December 7, 2024

Sports

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