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Wayland school board agrees to build 2nd baseball field

March 24, 2015

Detroit News staff writer Tony Paul, a graduate of Wayland High School, has reported today that the Wayland Board of Education has decided to include a new baseball field on its list of capital improvements this year to be funded. The school district was acting less than a week after...

Dorr Twp. Board adopts $1.3 million budget for FY 2015-16

March 24, 2015

The Dorr Township Board Monday night adopted a 2015-16 general fund budget of more than $1.3 million, with a fund balance of just about that amount. The township is expecting revenues at $1.384 million and expenditures of nearly the same figure and a fund balance of $1.35 million after setting...

Dorr Township debate raises question: How much pay is fair?

March 24, 2015

An apparently failed attempt to get a raise in salary for three Dorr Township officials raised questions about just what what fair compensation is for public officials. Supervisor Jeff Miling, Clerk Brian Boot and Treasurer Jim Martin asked for a 5.3% raise in the Township Board meeting Monday night, only...

Wayland School Board gets legal opinion on Title IX complaint

March 24, 2015

The Wayland Board of Education Monday night went into closed session to consider a written legal opinion from its attorney about a Title IX civil rights complaint filed last week by former board member Shelly Salisbury Whitley. Whitley last Tuesday filed her complaint with the Office of Civil Rights in...

Dorr citizens’ road committee ramping up campaign for votes

March 22, 2015

The Dorr Township Citizens Road Committee is ramping up the campaign to pass a millage May 5 to fix local roads. The committee has completed work on the look of postcards that will be sent to voters in the township, supporting a three-mill increase for five years dedicated entirely to...

New police facility, remodeled fire dept. ideas kicked around

March 19, 2015

Two architects from a Kalamazoo firm showed up Thursday evening at the Wayland fire station to try to get public opinions about a new police station and renovated fire facility. Plans are in the works for having the Wayland City Police move out of the building they now share with...

Dorr Ranch residents bring complaints about developer

March 17, 2015

Dorr Township Planning Commission Chairman Bob Wagner Tuesday evening agreed to ask Professional Code Inspections to look into complaints by residents of the Dorr Ranch development off 12th Street. Several members of the neighborhood association appeared before the Planning Commission to talk about what they called unacceptable conditions of the...

Verizon cell phone communications tower OK’d in Dorr Twp.

March 17, 2015

The Dorr Township Planning Commission Tuesday evening approved a special use request from Verizon Wireless to construct a communications cell tower on 20th Street. Approval was granted after a public hearing and a presentation by Verizon vendor Judd Chaille. The 2,200-foot high tower on a 100x100-foot site will be placed...

Civil rights complaint filed against Wayland school district

March 17, 2015

Former Wayland Board of Education member Shelly Salisbury Whitley has filed a Title IX civil rights complaint against the Wayland School District. She and her husband, Aaron, both Wayland High School graduates, filed their discrimination complaints Tuesday with the Michigan Department of Civil Rights and with federal Office for Civil...

Wayland schools opt out of early college program, for now

March 17, 2015

The Wayland Board of Education has instructed Superintendent Norman Taylor to tell the Allegan Area Education Services Association it will pass for now on participating in in a special early college program. The board last week voted to endorse the program in concept, but expressed concerns about being finally able...

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