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Musical chairs just another way to skirt around term limits

April 15, 2016

ACHTUNG: This is not a "fair and balanced" story. It is an editorial by the editor. I hear tell in the last two weeks that no fewer than three state legislators plan to get back into the government game in a different capacity this year. I reported earlier this month...

Funeral for Marjorie Haas, 86, will be Monday afternoon

April 15, 2016

Marjorie Ann Haas, 86, of Allegan, died Wednesday, April 13, at her home. Mrs. Haas was born Jan. 20, 1930, in Kalamazoo, the daughter of Frank and Leah (Tangway) Williams. Marjorie spent her working career as a secretary for the Michigan Department of Transporation (MDOT), retiring in 1985 after 22...

Lilly seems to be getting better in New York experiment

April 15, 2016

This is an unusual photo of 10-year-old Lilly Vanden Bosch of Dorr, who is in New York to receive an experimental treatment for a virus she contracted earlier this year after undergoing a bone marrow transplant last November at Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in Grand Rapids. Her mother reported today...

Dorr Twp. road millage request to be back on ballot Aug. 2

April 15, 2016

The special Dorr Township Roads Committee is laying out a plan to inform voters about the need to pass a three-mill request for repairs, improvements and paving of local roads Voters will see a three-mill request on the ballot in the Aug. 2 primary election. A similar request was soundly...

Golf cart, most ORV use around Green Lake permitted

April 15, 2016

Leighton Township officials hope an old issue about use of golf carts and off-road vehicles (ORVs) at Green Lake has finally been resolved. The Township Board Thursday evening adopted a resolution allowing golf carts to use all roads with a 25-miles-per-hour speed limit around the lake. The resolution will take...

Columns

Army Bob: Did Mrs. Clinton fail as the Secretary of State?

April 15, 2016

by Robert M. Traxler Let’s discuss Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State. For the purpose of keeping this column to a reasonable length, Benghazi will be left out. I would like to focus on two foreign policy failures under Mrs. Clinton’s watch, the killing of Muammar Kaddafi in Libya...

Wildcats swept in awful day twin bill vs. Byron Center

April 15, 2016

It was a just plan awful day Thursday for the Wayland varsity baseball team, as it was swept by Byron Center in a doubleheader, 11-1 and 14-1. Coach Travis Wilcox said the problems were “The inability to throw strikes and make plays in the field.” The ‘Cats pitching staff struggled...

Lady Wildcat soccer team drops nonleague match at Jenison

April 15, 2016

The Lady Wildcats' soccer team's overall season record fell to 1-2 Thursday in a 5-1 loss on the road at Jenison. "The game was much closer than the score indicated though, with the girls having some close chances in the second half to cut the score down," said coach Ben...

WHS Science Olympiad students receive awards

April 15, 2016

Wayland High School competed in the Science Olympiad Region 10 contest Feb. 27 at Western Michigan University and recently received their awards. The 11 students who competed were Lynnsey Hooker, Lexi Walters, Sean McCarty, Hope Reurink, Jarod Geerlings, Anna Kidwell, Toni Lohroff, Samantha Dzierzyc, Kirsten Nelson, Matt Gauthier, and Landon...

Air park developer submits new scaled-down proposal

April 14, 2016

There’s a new twist in the continuing controversy over a proposed air park in Leighton Township. Developer Clark Galloway has introduced a revised, scaled down plan for installing an air strip near the intersection of 144th Avenue and Kalamazoo Avenue. His first proposal was for a 3,000-foot strip to include...

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