Community Notices

City Park renovations expected to be completed next month

April 4, 2016

Work is progressing at the City Park, which will have renovations and improvements done this spring in Wayland. City Manager Tim McLean told the City Council Monday evening that water and sewer hookup have been completed and "things are coming along well." New playground equipment is expected to arrive and...

Aplastic anemia patient Lilly, 10, now in New York for therapy

April 4, 2016

Lilly Vanden Bosch, 10, of Dorr, has been flown to New York City for a cutting-edge medical treatment called Adaptive T-Cell Therapy, in which a specific kind of white blood cells will be injected into her to help eliminate a virus. Lilly, who underwent a bone marrow transplant last November...

Early morning fire routs residents near West Maple, North Main

April 4, 2016

An early Monday morning fire routed the people living inside in the 100 block of West Maple Street in Wayland, but all were able to escape safely. Fire authorities said the fire was reported just before 6 a.m. Monday by passerby Ashley and Brady Forcier at the apartment building near...

WHS robotics team wins All-Star Rookie award in contest

April 3, 2016

The Wayland Robotics team No. 6090 was named Rookie All-Star Team at the district competition of the FIRST Robotics at East Kentwood High School Friday and Saturday. This is the first year Wayland has fielded a robotics team. The Wildcats were rated 15th among the 40 teams in the district...

Pryer Sisters featured in next folk gathering Saturday

April 1, 2016

Folk music lovers (bluegrass, country, blues, oldies) are invited to a monthly gathering of fellowship and music at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 2, at the Vibrant Grains Restaurant, 142 S. Main St., Wayland. The featured artists will be the Pryer sisters, Mary and Faith, who bring their own unique style...

Historic J.C. Wheeler Library building brought down in Martin

March 31, 2016

The historic, but aging building that formerly housed the J.C. Wheeler Library came tumbling down today in downtown Martin next to what used to be the Boysen's Market, which also was demolished. The old former library site is making way for a Dollar General Store at the southeast corner of...

Virus challenges 10-year-old bone marrow transplant patient

March 31, 2016

A major challenge now is confronting 10-year-old Lilly Vanden Bosch of Dorr, who under went a bone marrow transplant earlier this year at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids. Lilly’s mother, Meg, posted on Facebook. “Things have gone from bad to worse as the CMV virus has officially taken...

GR Symphony, WHS Strings will be back ‘Side by Side’

March 31, 2016

The Grand Rapids Symphony will perform with the Wayland High School Symphony Strings students at the Fine Arts Center the evening of May 17. The Grand Rapids Symphony will be conducted by John Varineau. The Symphony Strings Orchestra, made up of WHS students from 10-12 grades, is conducted by Karen...

Matt Miller hired as new Wayland schools’ public safety officer

March 28, 2016

Matt Miller, head of security at Crossroads Alternative High School in Kentwood for the past four years, has been hired as the Wayland Union school district’s public safety office. Miller, a graduate of Hopkins High School who has two daughters who attend St. Therese Schools, succeeds the retiring Harry Werkema,...

Hopkins Middle School TechVikes survive Super Regional

March 23, 2016

The Hopkins Middle School TechVikes robotics team finished as division finalists at the Super Regional competition in Iowa last week. There were only two middle school teams that qualified to compete in the finals. The Hopkins High School TechVike team will be at GVSU March 25 and 26 and again...

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