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Wayland High School graduate Bruce Hayes passes at 59

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…

Editor April 8, 2015

Obituaries

Longtime Wayland businesswoman Edith Clack dies at 99

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…

Editor April 8, 2015

Features

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

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…

Editor April 8, 2015

Features

Democracy Tree: RFRA is political wedgie that keeps on giving

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…

Editor April 8, 2015

Coming Events

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

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…

Editor April 8, 2015

Community Notices

Public safety Beat: Deputies seek runaway suspect in Moline

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…

Editor April 8, 2015

Editorial

We Americans continue to let voting, democracy slip away

“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…

Editor April 7, 2015

Columns

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

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…

Editor April 7, 2015

Articles

John Sloan sworn in as new Wayland City Council member

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…

Editor April 6, 2015

Community Notices

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

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…

Editor April 6, 2015