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Hopkins lady ‘never wins anything’ until this raffle

Diane Darby-Kamps from Hopkins EA was the lucky winner of the recent MEA Portal raffle. During the promotion period, Diane checked in to her MEA Member Portal, updated her contact…

Editor March 8, 2022

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Ex-WHS foreign exchange student still safe in exile

Former Wayland High School foreign exchange student Olya Schenky remains outside of war-torn Ukraine, but is reporting that she is well and awaiting a reunion with her parents. Schenky, who…

Editor March 8, 2022

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Thought spring arrived? I’m back! Didja miss me?

After a balmy 60-degree day Saturday and a windy Sunday, Michigan weather played its customary tricks in March by sending us the return of wintery conditions. Actually, the accumulation was…

Editor March 7, 2022

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Four WHS choir members to sing in concert March 17

Four Wayland Union High School choir students have been accepted into the South West Vocal Music Festival Honors Choir (from left): Mark Musgrave lll, Destiny Buckner, Kaprya Pureifoy and Stephen…

Editor March 3, 2022

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Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County

(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now historical library in downtown Dorr) Members of the Wayland High School Home Economics Club in the late 1930s. 25 Years Ago…

Editor March 2, 2022

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Lily of Hopkins High School defeats aplastic anemia

Lily and her mom six years ago during hard times. Lilly Vanden Bosch today is a reasonably healthy Hopkins High School student after overcoming the challenges of aplastic anemia. She…

Editor February 28, 2022

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WHS foreign exchange student has left Ukraine

Olya Schenky, Wayland High School foreign exchange student from Ukraine, has left her home country. In a message to American mother Connie VanHouten, she wrote, “Well, today I will finally…

Editor February 28, 2022

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WHS foreign exchange student still surviving invasion of Ukraine

EDITOR'S NOTE: Since posting earlier today, Former WHS foreign exchange student Olya Schenky has sent along updated information as follows: "Ahmed and I are safe today. Russian soldiers tried to…

Editor February 27, 2022

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WHS foreign exchange student from Ukraine safe

Olya Schenky, shown here with Wayland High School Principal Tom Cutler, receives her diploma in 2016. Olya Schenky, perhaps Wayland’s first-ever Muslim foreign exchange student, is safe in Ukraine thus…

Editor February 24, 2022

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Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County

(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now historical library in downtown Dorr) Early automobile enthusiast R.B. Reidlinger 25 Years Ago — Feb. 24, 1997 A special “Project Peace”…

Editor February 23, 2022