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Council agrees to spend $526,618 on City Park renovations

The Wayland City Council Monday night agreed to spend $526,618 on the renovations for the City Park next year. Council agreed to pay Pentura that amount to install a splash…

Editor January 18, 2016

Articles

Kelle Tobolic appointed to seat on Wayland DDA Board

Kelle Tobolic has been appointed to a seat on the Wayland Downtown Development Authority Board of Directors. Tobolic, who formerly was a member of the Wayland City Planning Commission, succeeds…

Editor January 18, 2016

Articles

Wayland City Treasurer gets more than she asked for as interim

It's one thing to say somebody did a really good job, it means even more if the employee is compensated. Wayland City Treasurer Cheri Parrish received more than what she…

Editor January 18, 2016

Community Notices

Wayland area roads are slick with ice and difficult to melt

The Wayland Fire Department issued a statement around noon Monday that “U.S.-131 northbound from the Wayland exit to at least the Kent Allegan County line is a sheet of ice…

Editor January 18, 2016

Articles

WHS Novice takes 1st at the debate state championship series

The Wayland Debate Novice Team took first place and the Varsity Team placed third at the debate state championship series Saturday at Kendall College of Art & Design in Grand…

Editor January 18, 2016

Columns

Monday Moanin’: Your high school history teacher got it all wrong

By Jeff Salisbury https://misterjournalism.wordpress.com/ President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of its bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons…

Editor January 17, 2016

Columns

Barry Hastings: U.S. gun violence is result of GOP/NRA greed

"Obama's executive pen crosses out cooperation" read the untruthful headline of an editorial purported to be by Fred Jacobs, publisher of the Jan. 7 edition of the Hastings Banner. (I…

Editor January 17, 2016

Obituaries

Funeral for former Hopkins woman Doris Brahlek is Jan. 23

Doris E. Brahlek, 80, formerly of Hopkins, died Friday, Jan. 15, at her home in Cheshire Township. Doris was born Oct. 24, 1935, in Monterey Township, the daughter of Alford…

Editor January 17, 2016

Editorial

Leighton Township should deny rezoning request for air strip

ACHTUNG: This is not a "fair and balanced" story. It is an editorial by the editor. I urge the Leighton Township Board and Planning Commission to deny a rezoning…

Editor January 16, 2016

Community Notices

Wayland Invitational dance competition planned for Saturday

The Wayland Invitational dance competition will get under way at the Wayland High School gym at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 23. Fourteen different teams have indicated they will participate, including…

Editor January 16, 2016