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Memorial plaque to honor longtime Martin Fire Chief
A special plaque to honor longtime Martin Township Fire Chief Gil Gilson will be placed by the siren in front of the township hall. The longtime owner of Martin Hardware,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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‘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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…