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Five Lakes Brewing may open this summer at Dorr strip mall

February 29, 2016

If all goes as planned, Lisa and Randy Blain and partners Doug and Cindy Lameyer will open Five Lakes Brewing this summer at the former location of the Seasons in Time Restaurant and Jake's Goodtime Bar & Grill, 1638 142nd Ave. at the High Mark Center mall in Dorr. The...

Dorr Twp. road, fire equipment millages expected in August

February 29, 2016

Dorr Township voters again will be asked to approve millage requests for fire equipment replacement and for repairing, maintaining and improving local roads. The two millage requests are expected to be on the primary election ballot on Tuesday, Aug. 2. They were scheduled to be brought to the attention of...

Six WHS choir students advance to State Solo & Ensemble

February 29, 2016

Six Wayland Union High School choir students moved up to the State Solo and Ensemble level and will be performing two songs and sight singing in front of a judge April 15 at Portage Central High School. They are spending many hours after school preparing for this event. The six...

Dorr Elementary food service staff bring the beach to students

February 29, 2016

Dorr Elementary food service staff members Friday brought the “beach” to the students in the school cafeteria, where they had a luau lunch complete with leis, grass skirts and sun glasses. (Photo courtesy of Laurie Zywiczynski)

Steeby 4th-grade team qualifies for state Odyssey of the Mind

February 29, 2016

A Steeby Elementary Odyssey of the Mind team took second place in the regional competition Saturday at the regionals in Martin and have earned the right to take part in the state competition March 19 at Middleville Thornapple Kellogg, Five teams of elementary students represented Wayland Union Schools – one...

David Wolowicz, 60, a 1974 graduate of WHS, passes

February 28, 2016

Word has been received of the death of David Wolowicz, 60, a 1974 graduate of Wayland High School. Wolowicz, who served in the U.S. Navy after graduation, was a member of the Wayland High School varsity baseball team. He was born on Jan. 3, 1956, in Grand Rapids the son...

Monday Moanin’: Skilled trades workers needed In Michigan

February 28, 2016

Just Google the phrase “construction worker shortage Michigan.” After decades of the “college for all” mantra, too many K-12 public schools have divested themselves of their vocational and traditional “shop” classes. Intermediate school district “tech centers” have picked up SOME of the slack, but interest in skilled trades has waned...

The Muck Starts Here: A mass murder comes closer to home

February 28, 2016

by Barry Hastings And won't it be interesting to learn about his motivation? Even more interesting will be learning the motivation of Jason Dalton's neighbors who, time after time that Sunday, appeared before the cameras of WWMT-TV News talking about the many times they'd heard (or seen) this slovenly killer...

Wildcat boys 9th in regionals; Austin Beggs just misses state

February 28, 2016

The Wayland boys’ varsity bowling team finished in the middle of the pack in the Division 2 regional tournament Friday at Continental Lanes in Kalamazoo. The Wildcats were ninth among the 17 schools in the competition. They rolled a combined 3,533 pins, 20 behind eighth-place Three Rivers. Coldwater won the...

Soph Sydney Urben qualifies for state bowling tourney again

February 28, 2016

Wayland sophomore Sydney Urben punched her second straight ticket to the state Division 2 singles bowling tournament in Plymouth Canton by placing third Saturday in the regionals with a score of 1224 (204 average). Senior teammates Lizzy Cobband Aubree Hodges and junior Alicia Sweeney came close, but both fell below...

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