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Wayland High School graduate Bruce Hayes passes at 59

April 8, 2015

Bruce Hayes, 59, of Howard City, formerly of Wayland, died Tuesday, April 7. A 1974 graduate of Wayland High School, he was a pitcher on the Wildcat baseball team. Bruce proudly served in the US Navy and was a member of Resurrection Life Church in Rockford. Surviving are his sister,...

Longtime Wayland businesswoman Edith Clack dies at 99

April 8, 2015

Edith E. Clack, age 99, of Wayland died Tuesday, April 7. Edith and her husband, Eugene, owned and operated Gene's Barber Shop & The Beauty Center in Wayland. She was a lifelong member of Wayland United Methodist Church, where she taught Sunday school and was active in many women's groups....

Bygone Days: A brief look at Wayland area’s past, Part 160

April 8, 2015

25 Years Ago — April 11, 1990 The Allegan County Board of Commissioners voted 8-5 to table a request for a $25 per household annual recycling fee as a surcharge for the service. Coordinator Mary Jones urged the board to make a decision soon or she would consider resigning her...

Democracy Tree: RFRA is political wedgie that keeps on giving

April 8, 2015

by Amy Kerr Hardin Last week’s crucible of intra-party warfare sent the Republican Party reeling over the schism between social and fiscal conservatives which, much to the left’s delight, culminated in an epic self-inflicted political wedgie. The “clarification” amendment to Indiana’s RFRA law isn’t the end-all though — not by...

‘Garage sale for moms’ for Saturday, April 18, in Hopkins

April 8, 2015

A Mom 2 Mom sale at will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 18, at Hopkins Elementary to help moms buy and sell gently used clothing and toys for kids, a sort of "garage sale for moms." Hopkins teacher Jason Babiak, whose son, Dawson is battling...

Public safety Beat: Deputies seek runaway suspect in Moline

April 8, 2015

Moline residents expressed some dismay Tuesday evening that police were chasing a runaway suspect in the neighborhood without many of them knowing about the potential danger. One longtime local resident posted on Facebook, "Right by my house and I knew nothing about it. This resident was not on any alert...

We Americans continue to let voting, democracy slip away

April 7, 2015

“Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” “A Republic, if you can keep it.” — Benjamin Franklin answering a question after the Constitutional Convention of 1787 "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."...

Ranger Rick: Calling it whatever you want doesn’t make it so

April 7, 2015

When I was a young man, 14 or 15 years old (this would be mid-sixties), an old man told me I would see and experience things in my lifetime that were unheard of at the time, not new inventions, but the destruction of traditions and religion. He was a World...

John Sloan sworn in as new Wayland City Council member

April 6, 2015

John Sloan was sworn in by Clerk Michelle Herman as Wayland's newest member of the City Council Monday night. A recently retired counselor at Wayland High School and former assistant varsity football coach, he succeeds Ron Kobish, who stepped down last month to take a position in Auburn Hills. Sloan...

City approves street closures for ‘Light It Up’ fun run July 17

April 6, 2015

The second annual "Light It Up" run in Wayland is scheduled for Friday, July 17, to kick off the annual Main Street celebration weekend. The Wayland City Council Monday night approved street closures to accommodate the downtown "Glow in the Dark" fun run, sponsored by the New Life Community Church...

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