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Service Saturday for Garland Roberts, 85, of Wayland

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Garland Roberts Jr., 85, of Wayland, died Thursday, June 2. Visitation will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Friday, June 10,  at Brown's Funeral Home, 627 Jefferson Ave SE, GR, MI 49503. Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 11, family hour at 10 a.m. Kingdom...
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City agrees to contribute $1,000 to trails coalition

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The Wayland City Council Monday evening voted 6-1 to proceed with making a $1,000 contribution to the West Michigan Trails and Greenways Coalition’s rails to trails effort on behalf of 20 communities. The coalition is seeking a match for a Department of Natural Resources grant, instigated by the City of...
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City may decide cost recovery ordinance proposal

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The Wayland City Council is examining two proposed ordinances, but it appears that only one has a chance of being adopted. What might fly is a cost recovery ordinance, but it has to be worded properly so it doesn’t falsely give local residents the notion they’ll have to pick up...
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Splash pad leads to paving nearby, more business

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The new splash pad in the City Park is such a huge hit that it’s being credited with the paving of Church and Cherry streets later this summer. Oetman Excavating, which currently is resurfacing East Sycamore Street, has offered to do the east-west block of Cherry Street and the north-south...
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Monday Moanin’: Education needs investment, support

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BOULDER, CO (June 2, 2016) – The father of the common school movement, Horace Mann, proclaimed universal education to be the bedrock of democracy. Education is the “great equalizer of the conditions of men” and the “balance wheel of social machinery,” he said, and it deserves significant public investment. Mann...
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Yes It is, It’s True: Muhammad Ali wasn’t always so beloved

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“And it ain’t braggin’ if it’s true. Muhammad Ali said that. Back when he was a young man. Back when he was Cassius Clay. Before he had too many fights, and left his brain inside the ring.” — Dan Bern Muhammad Ali said a lot of things during his colorful,...
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Technology Solutions open for business on W. Superior

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Technology Solutions, a computer and smart phone repair business owned and operated by 1988 Wayland High School graduate Scott Calkins, opened its doors last month at 122 W. Superior St. Calkins also has rented out office space to other businesses in the building. Technology Solutions claims to repair computer hardware...
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Barry Hastings: June 6, 1944: The day the world stood still

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by Barry Hastings (Normandy, June 6, 1944, 9:30 p.m., double-daylight savings time.) At six-thirty p.m., two squadrons of U.S. Army Air Force P-51 fighter planes, the 334 and 335 , of the 4 Fighter Group, were airborne, and forming up for their third flight of the day over Normandy. They...
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Vibrant Grains drops restaurant, still to be a bakery

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The Vibrant Grains Restaurant and Bakery is dropping the restaurant, but will continue as a bakery. The restaurant was closed Friday, June 3,  and now there are plans for co-owners Celia and Virgil Gleason to grow the bakery. Celia recently posted on Facebook, "We tried valiantly to win as a...
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Father of several local citizens dies June 3 at age 77

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Jack Holmes died Friday, June 3, at the Wings Home in Allegan. He was 77. He was born April 18, 1939, in Otsego the son of Clifton and Laura (Root) Holmes. Jack served his country in the United States Navy. He was a lifelong resident of the area and had...
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