Community Support

Allegan Area ESA plans to launch a rebranding project

As an outgrowth of the strategic planning that Allegan Area ESA completed in 2021, the organization embarked on a brand refresh project. The concept was to better align the district’s…

Editor August 22, 2022

Articles

Martin Public Schools reorganizing staff, administrators for ’22-’23

Danielle Whitaker Shelby Finney Martin Public Schools is undergoing a reorganization of staff and adminsitrators to commence the 2022-23 academic year. Supt. Brooke Ballee-Stone explained, "We have a couple more…

Editor July 19, 2022

Community Notices

Burglar at Rock ‘N Bowl apprehended by authorities

Local authorities have apprehended a minor suspect in the break-in and burglary early Tuesday morning at the Rock 'N Bowl bowling establishment just north of the Wayland city limits. The…

Editor March 11, 2022

Columns

Supt. Update focuses on safety and 2022 bond issue

Bond Project 2022 Thank you to those who responded to the MRA-EPIC telephone survey about our upcoming bond project. The results are favorable demonstrating support of our proposals so far…

Editor February 10, 2022

Articles

School’s casino funding workshop crowd sparse

Supt. Dr. Christina Hinds explains casino fund usage from one of the three categories. Nearly a decade ago, a large group of citizens demanded to know how Wayland Union school…

Editor December 6, 2021

Community Notices

Memorial celebration for Jose Blanco will be Sunday

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story orginally and incorrectly reported the memorial party was to be held Saturday afternoon. It will be Sunday afternoon instead. A memorial service for Jose…

Editor July 12, 2021

Articles

Wayland board pressured to fully reopen the schools

The subject once again Monday night was handling Covid-19, and members of the Wayland Board of Education had yet another lengthy and painful discussion about what to do about it.…

Editor October 12, 2020

Community Notices

Wayland Union Schools reports 2 cases of Covid-19

Two cases of the Coronavirus have been reported at two separate buildings in the Wayland School District today. School officials did not specify which two buildings among the six were…

Editor September 30, 2020

Community Notices

Martin to honor Class of 2020 at football field Friday

Martin High School seniors (Class of 2020) will be honored at 8:20 p.m. at the high school football stadium, where lights will come on and stay lit for 20 minutes.…

Editor April 30, 2020

Obituaries

Dorr’s Kuperus Dairy Farm founder dies at age 83

John Kuperus, husband, father and grandfather, died Thursday, Feb. 6. John was born in the Netherlands on July 14, 1936, and immigrated to New Jersey in 1953 where he met…

Editor February 8, 2020