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Public Safety Beat: Dorr Twp. family escapes house fire
A fire at a house in the 2300 block of 142nd Avenue in Dorr Township Thursday morning routed a family of four. Authorities said the fire started at about 4:40…
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Steeby students go on field trip to new high school science facility
Steeby Elementary fourth-graders didn’t have to travel far to experience a unique, hands-on science lesson, as they had an “in-district” field trip to the new Science & Innovation Center inside…
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Bygone Days: A brief look at the Wayland area’s past, Part 152
25 Years Ago — Feb. 14, 1990 The Wayland Board of Education was embroiled in controversy over reinstatement of a student-athlete who was suspended for five days and charged with…
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Five Beagles are Allegan County ‘surrenders, not ‘strays’
This is one of five little ones that were not strays, but rather surrenders. Apply today if you are interested, because we do not think they will be with us…
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Duke and Duchess crowned at Wayland HS Snowcoming festivities
Wayland High School seniors Jessica Hedgecock and Kyle VanderWeide were chosen Duke and Duchess at the Snowcoming festivities Friday evening. They were crowned before a packed house that witnessed the…
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Local photographer’s work on bubbles published on web site
Hope Thurston Carter of Shelbyville has had some of her photography published on the Phoblographer web site. She posted on Facebook Wednesday, "This is a very first for me, what…
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Bygone Days; A brief look at the Wayland area’s past, Part 152
EDITOR'S NOTE: The customarily reliable archives at the Then and Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr did not have a copy of the Feb. 7, 1990, edition of the Penasee…
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Chances of school on Monday as low as the temperatures
This stubborn cuss continued to blow out his driveway Sunday afternoon in the face of near-blizzard conditions that was dropping between six and 10 inches of snow on Wayland and…
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WHS grad’s Bluetooth company shows plenty of ‘rapid growth’
Wayland High School graduate Jason Hall is shown here in a photo and story that appeared in the Jan. 29 edition of Rapid Growth. Hall is the CEO of Grand…
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WHS teacher Gunderson’s wine cork mosaics strike again
Scott Gunderson, a Wayland High School art teacher, is shown here in a photo that appeared in USA Today with his latest artistic creation, a mosaic of Spain’s King Philippe…