Community Notices

Heat, humidity, storms wreak havoc on homes, Main Street

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…

Editor July 20, 2019

Community Notices

Friends, family of Ethan Mutschler attend special service

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…

Editor July 19, 2019

Community Notices

Woman, 27, arrested for head-butting Gun Lake Casino cop

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…

Editor July 19, 2019

Community Notices

Three waterless cleaning systems installed at Gun Lake

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…

Editor July 18, 2019

Community Notices

Main Street celebration slated for Wayland all day Saturday

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…

Editor July 17, 2019

Community Notices

Special celebration of Ethan Mutschler’s life is Friday night

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…

Editor July 15, 2019

Community Notices

The accent is on local history at Martin’s Founders Day

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…

Editor July 13, 2019

Community Notices

WHS senior grid lineman Ethan Mutschler dies in car crash

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…

Editor July 13, 2019

Community Notices

Julia Sturvist chosen Wayland Main Street/DDA Director

Julia Sturvist has been selected as the new Main Street/DDA Director, succeeding Ingrid Miller, who left last month to take a job in Grand Rapids. Sturvist received her bachelor’s degree…

Editor July 13, 2019

Community Notices

Woman who drowned in Gun Lake was Laura Smith, 66

The Barry County Sheriff’s dive team and Hastings firefighters recovered the body of Laura Smith, 66, of Middleville, who apparently drowned in Gun Lake Thursday afternoon. Barry County Sheriff Dar…

Editor July 11, 2019