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Wildcat football players do community service after storm

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About 30 members of the Wayland varsity football team Monday did a little community service in the area in the wake of last weekend's storms. Head coach Mike Doupe and players used their physical strength to move overturned tree limbs that came down Saturday. They stopped in at local residents'...
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Authorities find body of man who drowned in Green Lake

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The body of 58-year-old Michael Pawloski of Caledonia was found Monday in Green Lake in Leighton Township after a two-day search. Allegan County Sheriff's office dispatchers reported they were called just after 2 p.m. Saturday. Divers and police and police and fire personnel were summoned to the scene, but they...
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Heat, humidity, storms wreak havoc on homes, Main Street

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This was just one one many trees that were felled by high winds Saturday morning. Mother Nature showed no respect for the 2019 Main Street celebration in downtown Wayland Saturday. A terrible combination of heat, humidity and storms caused the annual festival to be canceled halfway through, at about 5...
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Friends, family of Ethan Mutschler attend special service

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Despite the oppressive heat and humidity, a fair number of local people, many of them students, turned out Friday evening for a special celebration of life for Wayland High School senior Ethan Mutschler, who was killed a week ago in a traffic accident in southern Kent County. The temperatures were...
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Woman, 27, arrested for head-butting Gun Lake Casino cop

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Ellie Kay Haitov. 27, has been charged with assaulting a federal police officer at the Gun Lake Casino. She had to appear in federal court after being accused of head-butting the officer because the casino is on federal land. According to an FBI agent, Gun Lake Department of Public Safety...
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Three waterless cleaning systems installed at Gun Lake

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The Gun Lake Tribe, in partnership with the Michigan DNR, Allegan County Parks, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Kraai Well Drilling, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Gun Lake Protective Association and Gun Lake Improvement Board, recently installed three CD3 Waterless Cleaning Systems at Gun Lake. Two are located at the Yankee...
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Main Street celebration slated for Wayland all day Saturday

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FrankenGarry, one of the entertainment acts at the Main Street celebration, will perform at the stage downtown at 1:30 p.m. EDITOR'S NOTE: The editor regrets erroneously publishing that a pancake breakfast would take place. It will not be held this year. The 10th annual Wayland Main Street Celebration will be held...
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Special celebration of Ethan Mutschler’s life is Friday night

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The This Is Wayland web site is reporting that plans are in motion for a special celebration of the life of 17-year-old Ethan Mutschler, who would have been a senior this fall at Wayland High School, but whose life was cut short in a traffic accident Friday evening,  The celebration...
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The accent is on local history at Martin’s Founders Day

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A presentation on the history of Martin by Scott Kuykendall was featured Saturday afternoon at the Martin Founders Day celebration at the JC Wheeler Library. The observance was of the 180th anniversaary of the beginning of Martin in history.
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WHS senior grid lineman Ethan Mutschler dies in car crash

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Ethan Mutschler, his mother and sister. The Wayland High School community is reeling from the news this morning that senior athlete Ethan Mutschler was killed in a traffic accident. Mutschler was perhaps best known as a three-year starter on the offensive line for the Wildcat varsity football team and as...
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