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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) This is a Martin High School basketball team frok years gone by. Anybody know the year?…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…