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Leighton’s budget fund balance less than 1%

The Leighton Township Board Thursday night adopted an extremely tight 2025-26 budget with less than 1 percent left in its fund balance. The board approved a budget that projects $2,758,317…

Editor March 14, 2025

Features

Wayland school bands have been busy lately

Wayland High School bands have participated in three festivals in the past three weeks. Along the way, the high school band earned a Division II rating, The seventh and eighth…

Editor March 14, 2025

Articles

GRI project proposal denied for 3rd time

Todd VanderSlik, engineer for GRI-Moline project. The third time was not the charm Thursday night for GRI-Moline in its quest to have a Leighton Township parcel rezoned to accommodate a…

Editor March 13, 2025

Features

Army Bob: Anti-Israel protests are puzzling

Anti-Israel protesters calling the New York Police Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is strange, as the protesters are covered head to toe in their traditional costumes as the…

Editor March 13, 2025

Features

Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County

(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — March 13, 2000 The Globe published a front page photo of father…

Editor March 13, 2025

Features

Wayland school board members win awards

Two Wayland Union school board members earned awards from the Michigan Association of School Boards last year for efforts to improve their leadership skills, demonstrating their commitment to student achievement…

Editor March 13, 2025

Features

WHS graduate takes post at U of Tennessee

Wayland High School graduate Mitchell Salisbury is transitioning into a new position at the University of Tennessee as coordinator of eligibility & operations. “I am honored to continue serving our…

Editor March 13, 2025

Obituaries

Celebration of life is delayed for Bob Ward

Robert “Bob” Ward, age 69, died Monday, March 10. He was a friend, uncle, brother, dad, father-in-law, son-in-law, husband and grandpa. He was a planner, cook, pontoon captain, teacher and…

Editor March 13, 2025

Community Notices

Huge barn in Leighton burns to the ground

A barn in Leighton Townshipwas severely burned Wednesday morning, prompting three area departments to be summoned. The barn, located near 137th Avenue and Kalamazoo Avenue (Fourth Street) was 44 years…

Editor March 12, 2025

Articles

Martin Twp. considers park and splash pad

The land for a proposed park is just to the north of the Clipper Cafe and to the south of the JC Wheeler Library on 10th Street. Martin Township is…

Editor March 12, 2025