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Basura: Locker-room chatter spins impeachment debate
“Walk on By” — Burt Bacharach, as sung by Dionne Warwick I was walking from the shower to my locker at the gym, when I heard one man say to another,…
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Wayland City Police say lost child now safe, home
Wayland City Police Department officials this morning are reporting a lost girl was found in Wayland and they are asking is anyone knows who she is. Anyone with information is…
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No services planned for builder Henry Bolt, 72, of Dorr
George Bolt, age 72, of Dorr and Howard City, died Sunday, Dec. 1. He was born in Grand Rapids on Oct. 13, 1947, to the late George and Johanna (Groen)…
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Gun Lake Tribe purchasing parcel in Watson Township
The Gun Lake Tribe of Potowatomis has purchased a 20-acre parcel of land in Watson Township from owner Richard Funk. The site is on the southwest corner of the intersection…
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Career Connections students win gold, bronze medals
Career Connections Academy students from Wayland High School competed in the Alternative Athletic League Bowling Tournament Wednesday. The students had a great time and took home two bronze medals and…
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Army Bob: It’ll be pay day for climate change industry
by Robert M. Traxler Climate change, the latest in the long list of disaster predictions from environmentalists, is perhaps the best term they have coined. Global cooling, mass starvation, global…
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Community activist to seek 72nd District state rep. seat
Lily Cheng-Schulting of Gaines Township has announced she will be a candidate for 72nd District State Representative, which takes in the City of Wayland and the townships of Wayland, Dorr…
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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 — Dec. 7, 1994 The deadline for demolition of the abandoned former Carriage…
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Former WHS cheerleader Laraine Oswald Anderson has died
Word has been received of the death Nov. 25 of Laraine Oswald Anderson, a 1964 graduate of Wayland High School. She was presumed to be 73. Joan Morgenstern Miller, a…
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Local senior citizens’ Christmas luncheon held at VFW
The annual Christmas luncheon and program for local senior citizens was held at the Wayland VFW Hall on South Main Street Wednesday afternoon. It was coordinated again by Penny Salisbury, who…