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Cheetah program attracts 350 people at Pine Street Elementary

Mary Wykstra from Action for Cheetahs in Kenya (ACK) and "Zemba," a cheetah from the Columbus Zoo, visited Pine Street Elementary Monday in the concluding special program of the summer…

Editor August 24, 2015

Features

CNN features leukemia patient Dawson Babiak’s crayon drive

Dawson Babiak, 5-year-old son of Wayland teacher Alison Babiak and Hopkins teacher Jason Babiak, is getting national attention in his heroic battle against leukemia. Dawson has launched a crayon donation…

Editor August 24, 2015

Articles

Probe claims Reps. Gamrat, Courser misused public resources

A Michigan House Business Office investigation claims that State Reps. Cindy Gamrat and Todd Courser Michigan state Reps. Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat, "misused taxpayer resources" in an alleged attempted…

Editor August 24, 2015

Obituaries

Memorial Mass will be Sept. 10 for Dorothy Clary, 88, North Dorr

Dorothy (Harig) Clary, of North Dorr, died Friday, Aug. 21. She was 88. Born Dec. 19, 1926, she is survived by her children, Gloria and Milan Delfosse, Deborah and David…

Editor August 24, 2015

Columns

Monday Moanin’: Nobody knows what the hell they’re doing

By Jeff Salisbury Maybe you’ve seen the video of people of all ages, offering words of wisdom to those of their generation, but just a bit younger. I spotted it…

Editor August 23, 2015

Columns

The Muck Starts Here: We’re still paying for Iraq War debacle

by Barry Hastings (Much of this story will be in italics, and represents direct quotes from a piece I wrote for this site's publisher while he edited a regional newspaper…

Editor August 23, 2015

Columns

Democracy Tree: Attacks on Planned Parenthood bogus, unfair

Per usual, Michigan Republican lawmakers have proposed a spate of legislation in response to the deceptively edited Planned Parenthood tapes. A package of bills was introduced this week to prevent…

Editor August 22, 2015

Sports

Two grid coaches to make debuts in season openers Thursday

EDITOR'S NOTE: "We apologize for the previous apology." — Monty Python Martin indeed will open its football season Thursday evening at 7 .m. at Fennville. There has been conflicting information,…

Editor August 22, 2015

Community Notices

United Church of Wayland extends free lunches 1 more week

Though the original plan was to have the summer free meals program end Friday, Aug. 28, the United Church of Wayland is offering free lunches from Monday through Friday, Aug.…

Editor August 22, 2015

Sports

WHS frosh volleyball squad 2nd in Comstock Invitational

The Wayland High School freshman volleyball team got off to a quality start Friday by finishing runner-up to Coldwater in the Comstock Invitational. The Lady Wildcats, coached by Jessica Bredeweg,…

Editor August 21, 2015