Editor – Page 1216

Let’s get rid of privatization of public services, not Snyder

April 8, 2016

ACHTUNG: This is not a “fair and balanced” story. It is an editorial by the editor. Gov. Rick Snyder has been getting hammered a lot since the new year over the Flint water crisis, and much of the grief he has absorbed is deserved. But I part company with those...

Gun Lake Casino expansion plans to be outlined April 12

April 8, 2016

The Gun Lake Tribe of Pottawatomi Indians; Gun Lake Casino; Wayland Township and Clark Construction will have a press conference at 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 12 at the Sandhill, Café. Information about the casino’s plans for expansion will be outlined and architectural drawings will be presented. An expansion of...

Zondervans seek help from public in daughter’s health crisis

April 7, 2016

Wayland Board of Education member Pete Zondervan and his wife, Kristiana Kay, continue to deal with their daughter Kinsley's serious health issues since she was born last Sept. 3. Kinsley, born with a ventrical septum defect, has undergone two complicated surgeries, the latest this week. She was born with a...

Columns

Army Bob: It’s politically correct these days to hate the rich

April 7, 2016

by Robert M. Traxler Quite frankly I must admit to being confused with the apparent hypocrisy of at least one of the Democrats running for President of the United States. Secretary Clinton and Senator Sanders denounce the rich and the unfairness of income inequality between the rich and the “people.”...

Watson Township to consider Johnsons’ planning bid

April 7, 2016

The Watson Township Board will evaluate a proposal from Tim Johnson of Main Street Planners to provide planning services for the township. Johnson, who re-started Main Street with his wife, Janice, earlier this year, is seeking to be planning consultant for Watson, which lost Mark Sisson, who took a full-time...

Watson Township adopts budget with healthy fund balance

April 7, 2016

The Watson Township Board adopted a balanced 2016-17 fiscal year budget of $218,850 in both revenue and expenditures after a public hearing Thursday night. Township Treasurer Sue Jones reported the general fund balance, or “rainy day fund,” is pegged at $223,895, or more than 100 percent of the budget. The...

Articles

Watson Twp. sticks with dust control service at higher cost

April 7, 2016

EDITOR"S NOTE: The original story published last Thursday night reported an incorrect figure for the cost of paving 122nd Avenue. The total cost will be $483,780. The Watson Township Board Thursday evening decided to stick with the same dust control service despite a cheaper offer. The board voted to spend...

Service will be Tuesday for Randall Lee Postma, 58

April 7, 2016

Randall Lee Postma, age 58, died Wednesday, April 6. He is survived by his wife of 38 years, Cindy (Borowka) Postma; children, Marcy (Nate) Zylstra, Nicole (Mike) Augustine, and Rick (Alison) Postma; grandchildren, Jared, Gavin, Brady, and Mason Randall; mother, Marie Postma; sisters and brother, Roxanne (David) Vanderroer, Starla (Roy)...

Democrary Tree: Perrigo among Michigan offshore tax cheats

April 7, 2016

As reporters pore over the recently leaked “Panama Papers”, searching the massive document dump for names familiar here in the U.S., the Obama administration used the occasion to push for a crackdown on corporate tax inversions — an ongoing problem draining the nation’s economy of revenue by the billions. Inversions...

Bygone Days: A brief look at Wayland area’s past, Part 210

April 6, 2016

25 Years Ago — April 10, 1991 VanSolkema Farms has been ordered to pay $16,000 in civil penalties and for damages in the 1989 “chemical drift” killing of about 2,000 brown trout fingerlings in the Rabbit River in Leighton Township. The burglary and break-in at the Radio Shack at 138...

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