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Chip and cracked seal, fog coat to be done on 144th Ave.

June 12, 2015

The Leighton Township Board Thursday night approved a cracked seal, chip seal and fog coat resurfacing job for 144th Avenue from Kalamazoo Avenue to Ninth Street at a cost of $45,000. Turned down, meanwhile, was a proposal for the same kind of work on Green Lake Road on South and...

Green Lake residents still upset about ban of dock on beach

June 12, 2015

About a dozen Green Lake residents appeared Thursday night before the Leighton Township Board for the second straight month, and this time things got a bit more hostile and confrontational. The residents in May were rebuffed in their attempt to keep a dock and fire pit on a beach they...

Wayland shocked by death of athletic patriarch Bill Merchant

June 11, 2015

Word was received Thursday morning of the death of Bill Merchant, 55, father of four of Wayland’s finest girls’ athletes and junior varsity basketball coach. Merchant was killed in a traffic crash in Hopkins Township. He was killed in a collision between his sport utility and a tanker truck at...

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Martin Township Board adopts budget of about $300,000

June 10, 2015

The Martin Township Board Wednesday night adopted a 2015-16 fiscal year general fund budget of just over $300,000 and made a few decisions about road work for this summer and fall. The budget for the next fiscal year projects a surplus of $12,562, which will be transferred into the general...

Martin Twp. finally to consider local marijuana ordinance

June 10, 2015

The Martin Township Board and Planning Commission have begun to seriously examine a local marijuana ordinance. After continuing a moratorium on having such a local law for years, township officials recently learned that a marijuana dispensary was operating at the site of the former Shelbyville post office on 124th Avenue....

General RV to seek approval for expansion of facilities

June 9, 2015

The Wayland City Planning Commission will have a special meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 23, to discuss a special land use request from General RV on Reno Drive near the U.S.-131 expressway. General RV wants to expand by as much as 44 percent in area, including a building, 145...

Wayland schools’ 2015-16 budget shows more of the same

June 8, 2015

The Wayland Union school district’s $26.5 million budget for fiscal year 2015-16 is about the same as it has been for the past several years, but the fund balance has slipped slightly to 7.35 percent. Finance Director Bill Melching told school board members Monday night that the budget for the...

Schools Administrative Secretary Pam Coleman to retire

June 8, 2015

Pam Coleman, administrative secretary at Wayland Union schools, has announced she will retire after serving 16 and a half years here. Coleman, who started her career as athletic department secretary for East Grand Rapids school more than 24 years ago, came to Wayland to be guidance office secretary in 1999....

School aides, food service workers feel ‘underappreciated’

June 8, 2015

It was a bad night Monday for the lowest paid employees of the Wayland Union school district. The Board of Education unanimously denied all six grievances filed by food service workers and appeared to be unmoved by a last gasp effort to spare some classroom and playground aides from reduced...

Petition drive launched with goal to halt fracking in Michigan

June 5, 2015

Petitions to ban fracking statewide are being distributed now after the Michigan Board of State Canvassers has approved the initiative’s format. LuAnne Kozma campaign director for the Committee to Ban Fracking in Michigan, said the goal is to have the question placed on the ballot for the November 2016 election....

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