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Celebration of Life event for Donna Walters is Saturday, Jan. 30

January 13, 2016

Donna K. Walters, age 48 of Dorr, a 1986 graduate of Wayland High School died Tuesday after a lingering and debilitating illness. Donna, one of the earliest Facebook friends for townbroadcast.com, eerily posted this message on Facebook, “To all my friends, the angels blessed me with my wings. Thank you...

Wildcat boys rated No. 5 in first AP Class B basketball poll

January 12, 2016

The Wayland boys' varsity basketball team is ranked No. 5 in this season's first state-wide Associated Press poll. The Wildcats, who sport a 5-1 record overall this season, will be back in action Friday evening at 7:30 p.m. at Grand Rapids Catholic Central. irdonically, the Wayland girls' squad, which will...

Yes It Is, It’s True: Just a coincidence in a name? Perhaps not

January 12, 2016

Not long after music legend John Lennon was murdered, an old friend, state champion volleyball coach Marty Andrews enthusiastically told me he thought he once knew Lennon’s killer, Mark David Chapman. Andrews told me that in the mid-1970s he had served in some sort of Peace Corps-type program through the...

Funeral will be held Jan. 16 for Howie Osterhouse, 47, of Dorr

January 12, 2016

Howard Ray (Howie) Osterhouse Jr., 47, died peacefully Dec. 30, 2015, at his home in Dorr, with his wife and daughters by his side. Howie was born March 25, 1968, in Kalamazoo, and moved to DeLand in 1989, where he owned and operated Osterhouse Services Inc. Howie returned to Michigan...

Basura: Snorkeling featured in upcoming trip south of the border

January 12, 2016

My wife and I are headed south of the border for a bit. I love to snorkel. She loves to get out of the cold, and be away from the snow and ice. We generally go somewhere warm in mid-winter, more often than not Mexico. We’ll go to Isla Cozumel,...

Ranger Rick: The Great Divide is Remocrats vs. republicans

January 12, 2016

The Great Divide When you first start to read this I presume you are thinking, what divide? Between Democrats and Republicans, racial divide, Michigan vs. Michigan State? No, the divide is between “Establishment Republicans” and the poor, unwashed masses known as Conservatives (which include every faction of little “r” republicans...

Winter storm dumps enough white stuff to result in 1st snow day

January 12, 2016

The first snow day for Wayland, Hopkins and Martin schools took place Tuesday, Jan. 12, after a winter storm dumped at least six inches of the white stuff on the area. Wayland High School got an unexpected extra day off Monday when a heating problem caused dismissal of students at...

Democracy Tree: Emergency manager law a monstrous hoax

January 12, 2016

by Amy Kerr Hardin The very first sentence of Public Act 436, Michigan’s Emergency Manager Law — not the second or third, or some obscure subsection buried within — the actual primary legal premise of the act, is a bald-faced lie. The leading statement of the preamble has proven to...

Fund-raiser for Hopkins athletics attracts all kinds of characters

January 11, 2016

One of the four-person teams competing last Saturday in the Hopkins High School bowling fund-raiser at High Mark Lanes in Dorr was this "Team EBowla," billing itself as "The sickest team around." Team members are identified simply as Mike, Kelly, Cynthia and Rick. Event organizer Julie Smith, a Hopkins Middle...

Wayland doesn’t fare well on M-STEP, but neither do other schools

January 11, 2016

The bad news told to the Wayland Board of Education Monday night was that students in the local district didn’t score very well in the M-STEP tests. The good news was that neither did just about everybody else. Director of Instruction Teresa Fulk explained that this was the first time...

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