Community Notices

The Martin Board of Education will have a vacancy beginning with the next regularly scheduled meeting Sept. 20. Board Vice President Rosemary Andrews resigned at the July meeting to allow…

The Wayland Police Department is encouraging local residents to roll up their car windows and lock the doors of their vehicles after they park them at home at night because…

Kent County Sheriff's authorities have announced the arrest of an accused ice cream thief who included the Dairy Ranch in Dorr Township among his victims. It was puzzling that Cameron…

Both the Hopkins and Martin schools’ non-homestead millage requests were approved handily, by better than two-to-one margins, in special elections Tuesday. The proposal was approved in Hopkins with 591 (68%)…

The Wayland, Yankee Springs and Martin Fire Departments were summoned to the scene garage apartment fire Wednesday, July 28. Homeowner Jenifer Babock said, "I didn't expect to see building standing.…

Employees and students at the Michigan Carpentry and Millwright Institutei in Wayland performed a little community service this week by constructing a new pavilion in the City Park to replace…

Two teen-agers have been apprehended on the southeast side of Grand Rapids in connection with an armed robbery at the T-Mobile store in Plainwell Thursday morning and use of a…

The bathrooms at the North Park Pavilion in Dorr Township will be closed until further notice as the result of vandalism. A Parks Commission spokesperson said, "We will have to…