Category: Community Notices

Summer ‘Funtastic’ free lunch series begins June 14

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Wayland Union Schools, local businesses and the Henika Library for the third straight summer plan to offer a series of fun, summer events where a free meal will be provided for children ages 18 and under. Beginning Wednesday, June 14, there will be opportunities for students to take part in...
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Middle School to present ‘A Mixed Up Fairy Tale’ Friday

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Wayland Middle School seventh- and eighth-graders will perform the play “Mixed Up Fairy Tale,” by Susanna Hargreaves at 7 p.m. Friday, May 19, in the WMS Cafetorium. It’s a story about fairy tales that get utterly mixed up. Cinderella’s desperately trying to get to the royal ball, but somehow she’s...
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‘Importance of Pollinators’ presentation will be May 24

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Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians (Gun Lake Tribe) and U.S. Department of Agriculture will present a program on "The Importance of Pollinators" at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 24, at the Luella Collins Community Center,  419 126th St. Shelbyville. This event is open to the public at large and free to attend.  There...
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Wayland Schools public forum June 1 on next bond proposal

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Wayland Union Schools will be presenting information and seeking feedback from the public on potential school facilities projects, reduced in size and scope, for a possible bond proposal in the Nov. 7 election. A public forum will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 1, at the Wayland Union Middle School Cafeteria.  “We are greatly...
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Blessing of the Animals set at City Park Saturday, May 27

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Rev. Bonnie Simerly and the United Church of Wayland invite all who have pet animals to the first annual “Blessing of the Animals” under the trees of Wayland City Park Gazebo at 1 p.m., Saturday, May 27. Seniors, families, singles and children are encouraged to bring their horses, dogs, cats, birds,...
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Stabbing in Yankee Springs Twp. leaves teen, 13, injured

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A stabbing at the Yankee Springs Meadows Mobile Home Park Sunday night left a 13-year-old with non-life threatening injuries. Authorities from the Wayland post of the Michigan State Police and Barry County Sheriff's Department said the incident was the result of a domestic dispute at a home on Yost Street in...
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Two Buckeye Construction employees injured in accident

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Two employees at Buckeye Construction in Leighton Township sustained non-life threatening injuries in a work place accident Monday morning. Authorities said a piece of machinery fell on two men inside a warehouse at the company site on Electric Avenue, just off 10th Street. They both were taken by ambulance to...
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Elyshia Schafer named director at Dorr and Hopkins libraries

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When Hopkins and Dorr Libraries Director Natalie Bazan left in March, Elyshia Schafer was selected as interim director for both. This week she was announced as new permanent director. Schafer has a master's degree in library and information science from Wayne State University. She earned her liberal arts degree at Michigan Technological...
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Little Free Libraries to encourage reading over the summer

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The Wayland Union school district is looking for builders, sponsors and hosts for Little Free Libraries. Director of Instruction Teresa Fulk said the idea is to increase students' access to books over the summer with a small, enclosed, weather resistant book case that serves as a book exchange location for children...
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St. Therese School turns to Go Fund Me for new boiler

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St. Therese Catholic School has taken to putting up a "Go Fund Me" page on the Internet to solicit financial support for a new boiler at the school. The page says, "We are a small Catholic Parish in Wayland and our school is in desperate need of a new heating...
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