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Collings, Forbes, relay quartet win at GVSU indoor track meet

Hopkins senior Quincy Collings and junior Julia Forbes both won individual titles Friday at the GVSU Indoor Track Invitational and the 4x600-meter relay quartet also emerged in first place. Collings,…

Editor March 23, 2015

Editorial

Barry Wege grant pass avoids opportunity to protect our land

To the editor: I am disappointed, but not surprised that Barry County commissioners voted to turn down a $5,000 grant from the Wege Foundation to explore ordinances to control oil…

Editor March 23, 2015

Features

WHS student takes 1st in state business competition

Wayland High School student Olivia Dubay took first place in Administrative Support Concepts and Business Meeting Management at the Business and Professional Association state competition this past weekend at the…

Editor March 23, 2015

Features

WHS Odyssey of the Mind team finishes 4th at state tourney

The Wayland High School Odyssey of the Mind team of Maggie Anderson, Casey Bellgraph, Mitchell Lapham, Victoria Poirier and Trenton Woodcox captured fourth place at the state final competition Saturday…

Editor March 23, 2015

Columns

Monday Moan: School board learns unintended consequences rule

By Jeff Salisbury [email protected] In the social sciences, unintended consequences are outcomes that are not the ones intended by a purposeful action. The term was popularised in the 20th century…

Editor March 22, 2015

Editorial

State lawmakers continue to ‘Starve the Beast,’ public schools

ACHTUNG: This is not a "fair and balanced" story. It is an editorial by the editor. Michigan state government has been playing a doomsday game of “Starve the Beast” for…

Editor March 22, 2015

Articles

Dorr citizens’ road committee ramping up campaign for votes

The Dorr Township Citizens Road Committee is ramping up the campaign to pass a millage May 5 to fix local roads. The committee has completed work on the look of…

Editor March 22, 2015

Articles

Allegan County stray dogs: March 21

We found this old timer on 135th and 18th Street, Dorr. He is in pain either from walking alot or arthritis. He was cold scared and alone at 2 am.…

Editor March 22, 2015

Community Notices

Wayland school board has a flurry of meetings recently

There appears to be a flurry of meetings activity for the Wayland Board of Education in the wake of former board member Shelly Whitley’s filing a civil rights complaint against…

Editor March 21, 2015

Columns

Yes It Is, It’s True: Tales of Title IX and reaction of resistance

Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear… Title IX is one of those landmark government actions that ranks right up there with the Civil Rights Act of…

Editor March 20, 2015