Category: Community Notices

Special Roads Town Hall session is at City Hall June 19

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Rep. Jack O'Malley A special Roads Town Hall program will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, at Wayland City Hall, 102 S. Main St., Wayland. Special guest will be State Rep. Jack O'Malley, chairman of the Transportation Committee of the Michigan State Legislature, a Republican who represents the...
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All in the family: Sister of Mark Ludwig running in Wyoming

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Yana Ludwig Yana Ludwig, sister of Fennville area farmer and political activist Mark Ludwig, has announced she is a Democratic Party candidate from Laramie for U.S. Senate in Wyoming in a race to succeed incumbent Republican Mike Enzi. Mark Ludwig ran unsuccessfully for state representative from the 80th District in...
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Dorr exits to expressway will be closed until June 24

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The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) has ordered the closing of both U.S.-131 expressway exits at Dorr on 142nd Avenue. Authorities said construction work is being done and they hope to have it completed by June 24. Traffic from the expressway can get off at the Dorr exit, but motorists...
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Write It Right: Clarifying Twp. Board support for library

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EDITOR'S NOTE: A recent column I wrote has prompted questions about how much money the Township Board awards to the Dorr Township Library. Dorr Township Clerk Debbie Sewers has sent along this clarification: "The Dorr Township Library is part of Dorr Township, but not its only source of revenue. The...
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Michelle DeYoung-Foster wins Katheryn Brenner award

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Michelle DeYoung-Foster was the recipient of this year's Katheryn Lorraine Brenner Outstanding Teacher Award. Mrs. Foster is a science teacher and robotics coach at Wayland Middle School. The honor is bestowed annually in honor of Kathy Brenner, who died at age 18 of cystic fibrosis in October 1993. The award...
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Wayland man charged with child pornography offenses

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A 28-year-old Wayland man has been arrested by the Michigan State Police Computer Crimes Unit and Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force on charges of child pornography. Matthew Bennett, 28, is being charged with child sexually abusive activity, child sexually abusive material possession, using computers to commit a crime, and...
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Dorr Elementary Citizens of the Year winners announced

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The Dorr Business Association has selected third-graders Alexa Henkel and Elijah Alonzo as Citizens of the Year for the 2018-19 academic year. The awards were presented by United Bank Dorr Branch Manager, Laree Waanders, shown here with Dorr Elementary Principal Kevin Zaschak. (Photo supplied)
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Austin Marsman’s persistence nets another political celebrity

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Martin High School graduate Austin Marsman continues to be politically active and meets and greets with famous people. He went to Lansing Tuesday to have this photo taken with Democratic presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachussetts. "It was incredible to have met Elizabeth Warren tonight and be in the front row...
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Wayland man gets 7 to 15 years for newlyweds’ traffic deaths

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Jacob Scot Damron Jacob Scot Damron, 22, of Wayland, was sentenced in Allegan County Circuit Court to seven to 15 years in prison in the fatal traffic crash in Heath Township last summer that killed newlyweds Logan and Hannah Allbaugh. It was determined that Damron was influenced by medical marijuana...
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Authorities seek tips on who wrote Hopkins bomb threat

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Hopkins Middle School administration immediately evacuated the building and contacted law enforcement authorities Friday afternoon after finding a threat saying “I will bomb da school” written on a stall door in the Hopkins Middle School boys' bathroom. Deputies from the Allegan County Sheriff’s Office responded; and a Gun Lake Tribal...
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