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City agrees to engineering costs for East Sycamore project

The Wayland City Council Tuesday night agreed to pay $45,250 in engineering costs for the resurfacing project next year for East Sycamore Street. The engineer will be the firm of…

Editor September 8, 2015

Articles

City faces parking issues for park, may re-bid for renovation project

Wayland officials may reject all bids for the work on the City Park and re-bid for the project, which is scheduled to get under way next spring. But the bigger…

Editor September 8, 2015

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Wayland Self-Storage wins recommendation for rezoning to B-2

The Wayland City Planning Commission Tuesday night recommended rezoning for expansion of Wayland Self-Storage at 1050 133rd Ave. Glenn Carlson, owner of the property, noted half of the parcel was…

Editor September 8, 2015

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State Rep. Gamrat pleads for censure rather than expulsion

State Rep. Cindy Gamrat, who represents Hopkins, Watson and Martin townships in Lansing, asked a special committee Tuesday to recommend she be censured rather than expelled in the wake of…

Editor September 8, 2015

Obituaries

Services Friday for longtime Wayland resident Marian Longstreet

Longtime Wayland resident Marian Longstreet died Sunday, Sept. 6. She was 90 years old and would have celebrated her 91st on Sept. 24. Marian was a member of the Wayland…

Editor September 8, 2015

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Wayland teachers’ pay 4th lowest among 15 schools in area sample

Veteran Kalamazoo Gazette education reporter Julie Mack this week had a story published on MLive about teachers' salaries, as public schools begin the 2015-16 academic year. However, the data she…

Editor September 8, 2015

Columns

Ranger Rick: Do the science — Mother Earth is starting to cool

President Obama, armed with the speculation of “thousands of scientists” with scientific “consensus” the world is coming to an end because of Global Warming, er, Global Climate Change, or whatever…

Editor September 8, 2015

Columns

Democracy Tree: Do-nothing legislature’s approval ratings tanking

by Amy Kerr Hardin Blame, only where blame is due As predicted, the dog and pony show known as the Courser-Gamrat Affair is slated to suck all the oxygen out…

Editor September 7, 2015

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Daughter of board member, teacher faces serious health issues

Wayland Board of Education member Pete Zondervan and his wife, Kristiana Kay, have had a difficult week since the birth Sept. 3 of their daughter, Kinsley Kristiana, a third grade…

Editor September 7, 2015

Columns

Monday Moanin’: College good investment only if you’re a bank

By Jeff Salisbury JeffreyLSalisbury@gmail.com Michigan high school juniors, like my grandson Auston, will be the first to take the SAT college admission standardized test next spring instead of the ACT. The switch,…

Editor September 6, 2015