City Council – Page 35

Yes It Is, It’s True: Silly season begins for 72nd District

June 8, 2018

The silly season indeed has begun. A very competitive election contest for state representative from the 72nd District already is showing signs of being entertaining, thanks to a gaffe by current State Rep. Steven Johnson. Johnson, who is seeking election to his second two-year term in Lansing, committed a faux...

Bygone Days: A look at the history of NE Allegan County

June 6, 2018

(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — June 9, 1993 The Apple Core Lounge at the Orchard Hills Golf Course now is closed in the wake of the Wayland Township Board denying the club’s dance permit. Supervisor Don Black...

Second applicant expressing interest in city council post

June 5, 2018

Joe Kramer Word on the street is that a second candidate may be applying for the soon to be vacant seat on the Wayland City Council. Councilwoman Jennifer Antel was circulating a petition Monday evening on behalf of Joe Kramer, before the start of the council meeting. She explained that...

City approves Lumberyard Events parking agreement

June 4, 2018

Members of the Wayland Fire Department gave City Council members a demonstration of the three new "Jaws of Life" electronic tools that replaced the old and slower hydraulic tool used to extricate traffic crash victims from mangled vehicles. The City of Wayland and Lumberyard Events Center owners Mark and Marty Shepard...

Dahlia test garden project proposed for North Park

June 4, 2018

This is the site along North Main, just south of Dahlia Street, where the demonstration garden would go in, if approved. The City of Wayland once was known as the Dahlia City and even had a Dahlia Festival in the 1990s, and the local Main Street program has a proposal...

Bygone Days: A look at the history of NE Allegan County

May 30, 2018

25 Years Ago — June 2, 1993 Wayland's state runner-up basketball team, 1955, with Jim Heth (22), Phil Regan (21) and Harry Hudson (12). The sale of the former Kessler’s building at 809 S. Main St. to Technical Systems Inc. (TSI) has been finalized, and Allegan County has received $43,500....

Jeff Salisbury seeks open seat on Wayland City Council

May 29, 2018

Jeff Salisbury The City of Wayland is accepting applications to fill an upcoming vacancy on the Wayland City Council. Councilwoman Tracy Bivins last month announced she is resigning her seat, effective June 18. Any persons interested in being appointed to fill the remainder of Bivins' term may do so by...

Steeby students getting ‘batty’ with houses again

May 21, 2018

Six representatives from Danielle LaJoye's third grade class at Steeby Elementary make a presentation about bats to members of the Wayland Board of Education. Third-graders in Lori Howell's classroom at Steeby last month presented the City Council with their project to install bat houses in the City Park and Rabbit...

City Councilwoman Tracy Bivins to resign June 18

May 21, 2018

Tracy Bivins Tracy Bivins is resigning her Wayland City Council post effective June 18 for what she said was for personal reasons. Bivins first was elected to her first two-year term in November 2012 and was re-elected in 2014 and 2016. She would have been up for re-election again this...

Bygone Days: A look at the history of NE Allegan County

May 16, 2018

(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — May 19, 1993 Oscar Hogan, in a postcard from Wayland to his brother, said, "I got a fine job and a good time." He congratulated brother Elmer and wife on the...

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