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Free meals for kids summer program serves more than 8,300

Jeff Williams (left), pastor of the Wayland United Methodist Church, and Tim Murtaugh, interim pastor at the United Church of Wayland, two of the recipients of awards from the Wayland…

Editor September 14, 2015

Articles

Buyer offers $50,000 for historic, aging Moline Elementary School

Stephen Austin has offered the Wayland Union school district $50,000 to buy the historic, but aging Moline Elementary School. Bill Melching, the schools’ finance director, told the Board of Education…

Editor September 14, 2015

Community Notices

Two new teachers welcomed at Hopkins High, Middle Schools

Linsay Mitchell and Mack Scudder are the newest teachers this year in the Hopkins Public Schools system, in special education and U.S. history, respectively. Mitchell, who works at the high…

Editor September 14, 2015

Columns

Monday Moanin’: ‘New American Way of Life’ just another hoax

By Jeff Salisbury Meme… e-mail… truth… fiction… urban legend… Hope you’ve seen or read the chain email or Internet meme called either “How to get $75k in benefits for you and…

Editor September 13, 2015

Columns

The Muck Starts Here: Is Hillary Clinton a victim of ‘Murphy’s Law?’

by Barry Hastings The Clinton camp has suddenly become the Clinton collapse, in Iowa and New Hampshire, as Bernie Sanders leads Hillary in polls among Democrats in the latter by…

Editor September 13, 2015

Columns

Democracy Tree: Big box store bullies hurting communities

by Amy Kerr Hardin The 'Dark Store' bait and switch — A corporate scam Big box stores across Michigan are gaming the system on property taxes — threatening the core…

Editor September 13, 2015

Sports

O-K Gold, Silver, SAC football standings, roundup for week 3

Week Three — Overall records for the football teams in the O-K Gold, O-K Silver and Southwestern Athletic Conferences. Ottawa-Kent Gold Ottawa-Kent Silver GR Catholic Central…

Editor September 13, 2015

Articles

Allegan County Tea Party compares Gamrat expulsion to 9-11

The Allegan County Tea Party did not react kindly to the expulsion of former State Rep. Cindy Gramrat (R-Plainwell) early Friday morning. A statement issued on its Facebook site Friday…

Editor September 12, 2015

Sports

Wildcat volleyball team goes 4-2, makes semis in invitational

The Wayland varsity volleyball team won four of six matches Saturday in the Grandville Invitational and made it all the way to the tournament semifinals. In pool play the Wildcats…

Editor September 12, 2015

Obituaries

Services Wednesday for businessman, bus driver John Lynema

John Lynema, age 96 of Shelbyville, died Saturday, September 12, at Thornapple Manor. John was a long time farmer in the Shelbyville community. He was a custodian and bus driver…

Editor September 12, 2015