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Robin Beckwith promoted to United Bank branch manager

September 14, 2017

Robin Beckwith Kara Vugteveen Word on Facebook is that Robin Beckwith, assistant manager, has been promoted to manager of the Wayland branch of United Bank. Townbroadcast attempted to contact a United Bank official about the development, but received no reply. Beckwith has been assistant manager and a licensed mortgage broker...

Fatal crash on U.S.-131 near Dorr rerouts motorists

September 14, 2017

A crash on southbound US-131 near Dorr shut down traffic after a crash Wednesday night that killed one person. A male driver near the Wayland exit was spotted driving erratically and officers tried to pull the vehicle over before he led police on a chase on northbound US-131. The suspect driver smashed through the cable...

Martin Township to file amicus brief in casino court case

September 13, 2017

The Martin Township Board Wednesday adopted a resolution to file an amicus brief along with Wayland Township in U.S. Supreme Court in the lengthy Patchak v. Zinke case involving the Gun Lake Casino. The Supreme Court last May agreed to hear a long-running case affecting the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians, also known...

Bygone Days: A look at the history of NE Allegan County

September 13, 2017

25 years Ago — Sept. 14, 1992 Downtown Wayland in the mid-1950s. The Martin Village Council is considering a policy to regard all employees as “at-will,” meaning they can be dismissed at ant time without prior notice and without reason. A group called “Concerned Citizens” has formed as a result,...

Service Saturday in Shelbyville for Melvin Fought, 94

September 13, 2017

Melvin R. Fought, age 94, died Monday, Sept, 11. He is survived by his granddaughter, Karen (Jeff) Burns, along with many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and extended relatives. Melvin was preceded in death by his wife Eliza Lee Fought and sister, Dorothy Tryon. Melvin’s family will meet with relatives and friends...

Yes It Is, It’s True: Lies of omission just keep coming at us

September 12, 2017

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” — Most often attributed to George Orwell “Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lies of omission or lies of commission; they can be lies that undermine national security or...

Ranger Rick: Alinsky’s ‘How to destroy a nation from within’

September 12, 2017

As I write this, it is the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, invasion of radical Islam committing murder on innocents. As were you, I was in shock about the Twin Towers and the Pentagon being hit by hijacked passenger planes and the subsequent felling of the towers and extensive damage...

Former Gun Lake Tribe chair Leah Sprague-Fodor dies

September 12, 2017

Leah Sprague-Fodor of Dorr, who in June last year was named chairperson of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians (Gun Lake Tribe), died Sunday. She was 48. The Gun Lake Tribe posted, “It is with great sorrow that we inform our community that Leah Sprague-Fodor walked on from this world...

Lady Wildcats improve to take 4th in Gold jamboree

September 12, 2017

The Wayland High girls' varsity golf team shot a much-improved 185 Monday in the third O-K Gold Conference jamboree of the season, this one at the Yankee Springs Golf Course. South Christian was a distant first with an excellent round of 166, but the rest of the league was grouped closely...

Service will be Thursday for Martin High grad Sharon Kelly

September 11, 2017

Sharon Lynn (Sipple) Kelly, 76, of Portage, a 1959 graduate of Martin High School, and formerly of Gobles, died Saturday, Sept. 9, at Bronson Methodist Hospital. Born April 4, 1941, in Grand Rapids, she was the daughter of the late Henry Deforrest Sipple and the late Ruth Irene (Pitcher) Sipple Walton Bishop....

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