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Memorial service Saturday for Marty VanderMolen, 64

Martin “Marty” Lee VanderMolen, 64, died Friday, Dec. 1, at home. He deeply loved and cherished his family and enjoyed spending each moment with them. Marty was also a jokester…

Editor December 3, 2023

Community Notices

Team effort handles fire in Yankee Springs Township

Yankee Springs/Wayland Fire Dept. personnel Friday were summoned to what was reported as a fully involved garage fire in Yankee Springs Township. Through a cooperative effort of neighboring firefighters such…

Editor December 2, 2023

Features

Wayland, Martin kick off Christmas season Saturday

Christmas is a little more than three weeks away and the communities of Martin and Wayland held their pre-holiday season celebrations Saturday morning and afternoon. Wayland's annual parade feature Grand…

Editor December 2, 2023

Columns

Ranger Rick, Rob Reiner agree on JFK assassination

Politics makes strange bedfellows indeed. I have been listening to unabashed liberal Rob Reiner’s podcast, “Who Killed JFK?” And I found it to be eerily similar to information in a…

Editor December 2, 2023

Obituaries

Memorial service will be Dec. 9 for Carol Warner, 84

Carol L. Warner (Brocker), 84, Gun Lake, died Tuesday, Aug. 1. Being a grandmother was important to Carol and she loved spending time with her grandchildren. She also enjoyed golfing,…

Editor December 2, 2023

Sports

Hopkins scores 2nd victory; Wildcats lose at the buzzer

The Hopkins boys’ varsity basketball team scored its second victory in as many tries this season Friday by posting a 51-39 victory over visiting Muskegon Catholic Central. Junior Nick Schultz…

Editor December 1, 2023

Community Notices

Hopkins grad 1 of 4 Young Farmer Meet finalists

Former Hopkins FFA member and academic standout Samantha Ludlum has been announced as a finalist in the Young Farmer Discussion Meet in Michigan. Ludlam is listed as a representative of…

Editor December 1, 2023

Community Notices

Health issues cause Dorr Plan Board chair’s absence

Bob Wagner Bob Wagner, who has been a member of the Planning Commission since 1968 and its chairman since 1975, has been absent from the last four meetings, from August…

Editor December 1, 2023

Features

Ten WHS students join Solo & Ensemble theater festival

The Theater Solo and Ensemble festival 2023 took place Nov. 18 at Grand Valley State University and 10 Wayland High School students participated. The students learned two pieces and sang…

Editor December 1, 2023

Columns

Army Bob: Activists ignore world pollution elsewhere

by Robert M. Traxler To take a walk down memory lane, some 30 years ago, the cause celeb was saving the Amazon Rain Forest. It was said that the plants…

Editor December 1, 2023