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Dorr library millage vote will be in March after all

December 3, 2019

Dorr Township Library Director Elyshia Hoekstra The Dorr Township Library Board has decided to reconsider the date of its millage request, opting for the March Michigan presidential primary instead of the August primary. The Library Board last month voted to place an 0.6-mill increase proposal on the August 2020 election...

Ranger Rick: Assorted pre-holiday political commentary

December 3, 2019

Surveying the Plight of Democrat Candidates: It sure is interesting to watch the Democrat Party go from the self-proclaimed "party of the working people" to the party of the free everything. Old Joe (Plugs) Biden is his same old goofy self, biting his wife's finger while she is addressing the...

Leighton Fire Dept. honors 32-year firefighter and EMT

December 3, 2019

Members of the Leighton Township Fire Department Monday night held a celebration for Rudy Banas' retirement from LTFD after 32 years as an EMT and firefighter, helping his neighbors and citizens of Leighton. Fire Chief Matt Weston said, "We appreciate his service and commitment and wish him good luck as...

Local winter sports seasons to get under way this week

December 2, 2019

Winter sports contests will get under way later this week for Hopkins, Martin and Wayland high schools. The earliest games will take place Tuesday event at 7 p.m. when the Martin and Wayland girls’ varsity basketball teams will make their debuts. Wayland, under fourth-year coach Wes Hudson, will be on...

Kristin Engel sworn in as interim Wayland City Clerk

December 2, 2019

Kristin Engel Kristin Engel was sworn in by Mayor Tim Bala Monday evening at City Hall as new interim city clerk. Engel, who was working in City Hall as a utilities billing clerk, succeeds Michelle Herman, who will retire later this month after serving as city clerk for nearly a...

Steeby Elementary teacher wins voucher to book shop

December 2, 2019

Danielle Purlee Danielle Purlee, a third grade teacher at Steeby Elementary, is one of 18 teachers who has earned a $500 voucher from Grand Valley State University to shop for books at a buy one, get one sale today at the Scholastic Warehouse in Caledonia. The grant money comes from...

For the Bottralls, the family that bowls together…

December 2, 2019

Kadence Bottrall and her father, Eric, bowled together in the GLJGT Adult-Youth Tournament in Jackson last weekend. Eric, head girls' coach at Wayland High School, said, "It didn’t start out very well for the both of us. The pattern was very challenging and we both managed to average over 200 for...

Columns

One Small Voice: A holiday meditation on ‘Helping’ poem

November 30, 2019

One of my favorite poems was penned by the renowned children’s writer Shel Silverstein. This poem, called Helping, from Silverstein’s 1974 collection called Where The Sidewalk Ends, goes like this: Agatha Fry, she made a pie, And Christopher John helped bake it. Christopher John, he mowed the lawn, And Agatha...

Editorial

Brian Boot should resign Dorr Plan Commission seat

November 29, 2019

ACHTUNG: This is not a “fair and balanced” article. It is an editorial by the editor. Brian Boot It is with a heavy heart I pen this opinion piece. Unlike today’s Republican Party, I choose to put the public good above my personal preferences by hereby asking for Brian Boot’s...

Columns

Army Bob: So where’s the ‘watchdog’ media in impeachment?

November 28, 2019

by Robert M. Traxler Mark Levin said Thursday that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., had awakened the "sleeping giant" of the American people by leading impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. In an interview on "Hannity," a nightly news comment program on FOX News, the "Life, Liberty & Levin"...

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