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Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County

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25 Years Ago — Aug. 19, 1996 The Hopkins Band, Circa 1933 Three Wayland Township property owners are asking to be annexed into the city to obtain water and sewer lines. They are sites near Wayland Union Schools, T & M Partners and Eleanor Marker. Leighton and Dorr Township officials...
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Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County

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25 Years Ago — Aug. 5, 1996 Martin Mansion. Animal welfare advocates argue the Allegan County Animal Shelter has needlessly killed dogs and cats during a parvo virus outbreak. Shelter officials claim they are trying to protect the public’s safety. Dennis Reno, age 53, son of longtime mayor Phill Reno,...
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City officials tour marijuana facilities in Lowell, Ionia

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Wayland City Council members and local officials spend the god part of a day last month touring and inspecting marijuana dispensaries and growing operations in Lowell and Ionia. Local officials are trying to do some research on the feasibility, wisdom and effects of a substance that was illegal until 2008...
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Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County

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(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — July 22, 1996 The Wayland High School varsity baseball team, 1905. Wayland City and Township officials are finding disagreement in the arrangements for trading fire services for Elmwood Cemetery use. And now...
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Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County

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(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — July 8, 1996 A Mr. Ward and his dog, Trixie, in 1948. Evidence shows that the Little Rabbit River and Kalamazoo River carry examples of our excesses and seeds of hope downstream....
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Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County

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(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — June 26, 1996 The Penasee Globe is being combined with the free circular The Orbit starting July 1, ending the 30-year history of the latter publication. Editor Nila Aamoth, in her Soapbox...
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Wayland School parents persist in Covid demands

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Torches and pitchforks again? Not so much. A group of Wayland Union school district parents appeared again at a Board of Education meeting Monday night to urge a policy removing Covid-19 restrictions when the academic year begins in late August. A smaller group this time, it did include a couple...
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Here’s my 2-step cure for our unfair elections disease

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ACHTUNG: The following is not a “fair and balanced” article. It is an editorial by the editor. Save our republic! Because the two-party political system in the United States has deteriorated, I hereby call for all elections below the state level to be non-partisan. Furthermore, I call for all elections...
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Will City of Wayland drop sidewalk snowplowing?

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Wayland City Council members appear to be between a rock and a hard place on an issue that’s probably near and dear to the hearts of many residents — sidewalk snowplowing. Council received a report and recommendation from the Budget Committee that suggested the city drop the service because it...
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Is the state going to take over gravel pit regulations?

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ACHTUNG: This is not a "fair and balanced" article. It is an editorial by the editor. “Politics makes strange bedfellows,” — adapted from Shakespeare’s, “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.” The Michigan Legislature is seriously considering a new law that would hand over decisions on and enforcement of gravel mining...
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