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Wayland City adds $100,000 to 2019-’20 general fund balance

June 17, 2019

Kelle Tobolic The Wayland City Council Monday night adopted a fiscal year 2019-20 budget that will add almost $100,000 to the fund balance. The council unanimously after a public hearing approved anticipated revenues of $2,576,708 in the general fund budget, expenditures pegged at $2,476,776 and nearly about a $100,000 figure...

Columns

One Small Voice: No More Deaths efforts are not criminal

June 16, 2019

by Lynn Mandaville Day after day I find myself wondering how we got here as a nation. By that I mean, how did we get to where the federal government is attempting to make it a criminal activity to extend compassion and humanitarian aid to the vulnerable immigrants who have...

Yes It’s True: New used car dealer proves it’s a good neighbor

June 16, 2019

“And like a good neighbor, Broadmoor is there.” — With sincere apologies to State Farm Insurance My family's cleaning lady, whom I playfully call “Wal-Mart Annie,” gets a weekly good-bye from me with the admonition, “Don’t shop at Wal-Mart" She just laughs and later that day gleefully does exactly what...

Community Notices

Man nabbed in car theft spree after shootout with deputies

June 16, 2019

Allegan County Sheriff's authorities this morning captured a man whose violent car theft spree began Saturday evening in downtown Martin. Deputies said they responded to a report of a stolen vehicle in Martin at about 7 p.m. Saturday and developed suspect information. The man abandoned that vehicle and stole another...

Mass of Christian Burial slated for Bob Lippert of Gun Lake

June 16, 2019

Robert Leon Lippert age 79 of Gun Lake died Friday, June 14, Bob was born Aug. 29, 1939, in Chicago, to Leon and Sylvia Warta Lippert. Some of his fond memories from childhood include family fishing trips to the U.S. Boundary Waters, first with his father, mother, and brother, and...

Austin Marsman serving as Sen. Peters’ campaign intern

June 15, 2019

Occasional Townbroadcast contributing writer Austin Marsman, a 2018 graduate of Martin High School, is continuing his political activism this summer as an intern for the re-election campaign of Democratic U.S. Senator Gary Peters (left). Marsman last year served on the campaign of Garnet Lewis of Saugatuck, who ran for State...

Hopkins Township Board must end its futile war with Tribe

June 15, 2019

ACHTUNG: The following is not a “fair and balanced” story. It is an editorial by the editor. “There are no coincidences, but sometimes the pattern is more obvious.” — Neil Innes, the Bonzo Dog Band, 1969 It’s likely that at least four members of the Hopkins Township Board regard persistent...

Martin man to be sentenced Sept. 16 for sex offense in 2018

June 15, 2019

Sentencing for a 23-year-old Martin man who admitted to having sex with a mentally disabled client at a facility will be at 1 p.m. Sept. 16 in Allegan County Circuit Court. Benjamin Paul-Alexander Arce, pleaded guilty earlier this week to one count of third-degree criminal sexual conduct by person in...

Celebration of Life is June 23 in Martin for Grace Hirst, 81

June 15, 2019

A Celebration of Life for Alta Grace Hirst is planned for 1 p.m. Sunday, June 23, at the Dover Farms Community Building in Martin, just east of 131 on the south side of 116th Avenue. Alta Grace Hirst was born on March 20, 1938, and died on April 23. Most...

Columns

Basura: So let’s all get behind Sarah Huckabee Sanders

June 14, 2019

“Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.” — Proverbs 12:22 The Republicans are well blessed with not one, but two Sarahs! Of course, we all remember Sarah Palin, the self-described “Mama Grizzly,” who served, albeit briefly, as Governor of Alaska. That is, until...

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