Emergency Services

Dorr Township hears about proposed trails commission

June 30, 2020

Jennifer Antel explains the trails commission proposal. Jennifer Antel, representing West Michigan Trails and Greenways group, gave a presentation to the Dorr Township Board Thursday night about plans to establish a commission to oversee local paved recreational trails. Antel, mayor pro tem for the Wayland City Council, said the commission...

Fire destroys house on Apollo Drive in Wayland

May 30, 2020

Local firefighters were summoned to house fire on Apollo Drive in the City of Wayland Saturday and found the structure fully involved on arrival. Leighton Township Fire Department, paramedics from Wayland Area Emergency Services helped firefighters from Wayland/Yankee Springs Twp. Fire Department battle the blaze. The Hopkins Area Fire Department...

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

April 29, 2020

(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — May 3, 1995 Wayland all-league baseball players in 1971 (from left) Mike Longstreet, Conrad Mauchmar, Leon Hilaski and Joe Koperski. Amanda Bard and her father, Wil, appeared in a photograph of them...

FFA alums, Sue Sebright decontaminate Hopkins FD

April 20, 2020

The Hopkins Area Fire Department is extending appreciation to Sue Sebright, the Hopkins FFA Alumni and Sebright Products for coming to the stations and decontaminating trucks and gear. She came on behalf of the Hopkins FFA Alumni with some cleaning machines donated for use by Sebright Products to help reduce...

Editorial

Ambulance service is not under threat of bankruptcy

February 15, 2020

To the editor: Wayland Area Emergency Medical Services (WAEMS) has provided service to our neighbors for more than 40 years and will continue into the future. We are led by a volunteer board appointed by the local governments we serve. We are a non-taxing governmental authority supported by patient payments...

Articles

Ambulance service seeks more local govt. funding

February 14, 2020

The Wayland Area Emergency Services Board is telling all members it needs more financial support to stay in business. The Leighton Township Board Thursday evening was the latest to be given the word and officials agreed to increase its annual contribution from about $12,000 to about $19,000. Township Supervisor Steve...

Watson must come up with action plan to combat PFAs

February 6, 2020

Watson Township has until June 22 to come up with an action plan to deal with perfluorooctanoic acid, a perfluorinated carboxylic acid, or PFAs, that was discovered last fall in two of five wells and the old Watson-Martin landfill near the corner of 115th Avenue and 12th Street. Ray Spaulding of the...

WAEMS Board working on 5-year restructuring plan

January 30, 2020

Penny Post The Wayland Area Emergency Services ambulance operations are the busiest ever and personnel are scrambling to keep up with costs and demands. Penny Post, who represents Dorr Township on the WAEMS Board, said Thursday evening that the service made a record high 4,452 runs in 2019, up from...

Dollar General store to come to Leighton Twp. site

January 9, 2020

The fastest-growing township in Allegan County and one of the top three in all of Michigan finally will have a commercial retail store within its borders. Leighton Township soon will have a Dollar General store on a lot just to the south of the former Chemical Bank site on Polk...

Bittersweet birth for newest member of the Kramer clan

January 8, 2020

Finn Noel Kramer made his grand entrance Monday morning, Jan. 6, at 9lbs 1oz and 20.6 inches long. He is shown here with his mother, Dani, and brother Myles at the hospital in Pennsylvania. The tragic part of the good news was that he will never meet his biological father,...

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