Editor

Ranger Rick: Airstrip should be OK’d as property rights

Nobody likes change, especially when people feel if affects them directly. Evidently the people involved in the Leighton Township airstrip fiasco living near the proposed airstrip are determined to stop…

Editor May 15, 2018

Articles

Rural events barns decision postponed by Dorr Twp.

About 75 local citizens appeared at a normally sparsely attended Dorr Township Planning Commission meeting Tuesday evening to object to a proposal to allow wedding barns near residential neighborhoods. The…

Editor May 15, 2018

Obituaries

Funeral mass is Friday for Arthur Harnish, 95, of Dorr

Arthur T. Harnish, age 95, died Monday, May 14. He was born in 1922 in Byron Center, grew up in Moline and graduated from Wayland High School in 1940 before…

Editor May 15, 2018

Sports

Amanda Brown scores 4 as Lady ‘Cats blank Wyoming

The Wayland varsity girls' soccer team evened its overall season record at 6-6 with an 8-0 victory Monday evening over Wyoming."The Wildcats went on a goal scoring frenzy after their…

Editor May 15, 2018

Community Notices

Sheriff’s Dept. seeks help with retail fraud suspects

EDITOR'S NOTE: The Sheriff's Department has announced the suspects have been apprehended and the assistance from the public was appreciated. The Allegan County Sheriff's Department is seeking help in…

Editor May 15, 2018

Sports

Lady Vikings officially win 7th straight league crown

It’s official. The Hopkins girls’ track team captured its seventh straight O-K Silver Conference championship by taking first in a weather-delayed league meet. The meet was delayed for about one…

Editor May 14, 2018

Articles

County, Hopkins Twp. to file comments on tribe land

Allegan County and Hopkins Township have until next month to file comments with the U.S. Department of the Interior on the Gun Lake Tribe's request to take into trust a…

Editor May 14, 2018

Features

WHS Class of ’18 summa cum laude honors announced

Wayland Union Schools has announced the Class of 2018 graduating seniors who have earned cumulative grade point averages of 4.0 of higher, thereby earning summa cum laude academic honors. The…

Editor May 14, 2018

Articles

Bay Pointe Woods planning review to continue Monday

by Austin Marsman After granting initial planned unit development approval in February, the Barry County Planning and Zoning Commission meeting Monday will discuss further specifics for the proposed Bay Pointe…

Editor May 13, 2018

Sports

WHS grad Sierra Mutschler cracks 28th career homer

Former Wayland High School standout Sierra Mutschler (left) crushed a three-run homer in the fifth inning in Saturday's NCAA Division III regional softball championship game for Hope College against Franklin…

Editor May 13, 2018