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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

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Local woodcarving artist has entries in Grand Haven

Woodcarving artist David Kerley, son of longtime Wayland High School teacher Kerley, has had two of his creations accepted in the Winter Arts Festival at Gallery Uptown in Grand Haven.…

Editor February 23, 2022

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WMS 8th-grader wins in regional spelling bee

Pictured (from left) Alexis DeLaney, Graysen Schuster, Adysen Pierce. Wayland Union Middle School was host for the Allegan Countywide Spelling Bee Tuesday, when 33 third through eighth grade students competed.…

Editor February 23, 2022

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Stud muffins breakfast trailer opens at Dorr Proline

The Stud Muffins food trailer finally is up and running at Proline Concrete in Dorr. It is Monday-Friday from 7 to 10 a.m. for breakfast pastries, coffee, and gourmet cupcakes.…

Editor February 21, 2022

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Gun Lake Winterfest’s Polar Dip was a frigid challenge

This year's Gun Lake Winterfest Saturday was presented with weather challenges that included stiff winds, frigid temperatures and wind chills stats that did more than make people uncomfortable. Regardless, the…

Editor February 19, 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) 25 Years Ago — Feb. 17, 1997 Richard M. Weaver of Allegan, a Wayland alternative high…

Editor February 16, 2022