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Art Hop, parade kick off Wayland Christmas season

The City of Wayland kicked off the Christmas season with the annual Art Hop celebration downtown Friday evening and the holiday parade. Members of the Wayland High School Strings Orchestra…

Editor December 7, 2019

Sports

Hopkins opens girls’ hoops season doubling foe’s score

Hopkins beat Potter's House Friday night 44-22 to open its girls' varsity basketball season on the road. The Lady Vikings were led by senior guard Evangelina Helderop with nine points…

Editor December 6, 2019

Sports

New Martin girls’ coach Schipper off to a good start

New Martin girls’ varsity basketball coach Ben Schipper apparently doesn’t shrink away from a challenge. After coaching junior varsity boys’ basketball for three seasons at his alma mater, he is…

Editor December 6, 2019

Features

Chuck Frederick selected VFW Teacher of the Year

Chuck Frederick (center), Wayland Union High School teacher, is this year's recipient of the VFW Teacher of the Year. He received the award at the annual Pearl Harbor Day assembly…

Editor December 6, 2019

Columns

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,…

Editor December 6, 2019

Community Notices

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…

Editor December 6, 2019

Obituaries

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)…

Editor December 6, 2019

Articles

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…

Editor December 5, 2019

Sports

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…

Editor December 5, 2019

Columns

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…

Editor December 5, 2019