Editor

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

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…

Editor January 12, 2016

Columns

Democracy Tree: Emergency manager law a monstrous hoax

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…

Editor January 12, 2016

Features

Fund-raiser for Hopkins athletics attracts all kinds of characters

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…

Editor January 11, 2016

Articles

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

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…

Editor January 11, 2016

Community Notices

Tom Salingue elected president of Wayland Board of Education

Tom Salingue (seated, center) was elected president of the Wayland Board of Education at Monday night's annual board reorganizational meeting. Salingue, who has served previously as treasurer and vice president,…

Editor January 11, 2016

Articles

Driver at fault in crash that killed John Dolegowski is identified

Authorities have disclosed that the at-fault driver in the traffic crash that killed John Dolegowski near Hopkins last month is Catherine Gertrude Bender, 45, who was arraigned Monday in Allegan…

Editor January 11, 2016

Uncategorized

Public Safety Beat: Fire damages barn; boom is ‘freeze quake’

A couple of incidents over the weekend and Monday morning had Wayland and Dorr area people buzzing. A damaged a barn in the 100 block of 131st Avenue in Wayland…

Editor January 11, 2016

Columns

Monday Moanin’: How you can help as Flint water crisis continues

By Jeff Salisbury https://misterjournalism.wordpress.com/ Despite declarations of disaster being announced, first by the otherwise powerless mayor (owing to the State of Michigan appointed emergency manager being in charge), as well…

Editor January 10, 2016

Columns

Barry Hastings: Coming of age with the Coast Guard in the ’50s

By Barry Hastings In mid-September, 1955,1 turned 17 when a friend (who'd hit the mark a month or so earlier) and I took a ride to Battle Creek. We planned…

Editor January 10, 2016

Editorial

Let’s make special election March 8 a referendum on Snyder, GOP

If I were David Gernant, Democratic Party candidate for former State Rep. Cindy Gamrat’s 80th District seat, and I’m not, I would scream from the mountaintops that, “If you care…

Editor January 10, 2016