Community Notices

Michelle DeYoung-Foster wins Katheryn Brenner award

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…

Editor June 10, 2019

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Wayland man charged with child pornography offenses

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,…

Editor June 10, 2019

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Dorr Elementary Citizens of the Year winners announced

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…

Editor June 6, 2019

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Austin Marsman’s persistence nets another political celebrity

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…

Editor June 4, 2019

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Wayland man gets 7 to 15 years for newlyweds’ traffic deaths

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…

Editor June 3, 2019

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Authorities seek tips on who wrote Hopkins bomb threat

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…

Editor June 1, 2019

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WHS assistant Principal Mike Omness moving to Pine Street

Mike Omness, who has been assistant principal at Wayland High School for the past two years, is moving to Pine Street Elementary next fall to serve under Robyn Robinson. “I’m…

Editor May 31, 2019

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Sesquicentennial year adds to Dorr 4th of July celebration

This summer’s Dorr Fourth of July celebration will be a week-long affair, from Sunday, June 30, through Saturday, July 6, because the township will observing its 150th anniversary. “The Fourth…

Editor May 30, 2019

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Wayland High School library also is getting a facelift for fall

The Wayland Union Schools' bond issue a year and a half ago is funding the middle school addition for sixth grade and construction of new tennis courts, but it also…

Editor May 30, 2019

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Laura Velderman graduates from Hopkins as a Marine

Laura Velderman (right) officially concluded her unusual high school career this week at the Hopkins High School commencement, receiving her diploma from Ken Szczepanski, high school principal and secondary curriculum…

Editor May 26, 2019