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Preliminary enrollment count may spell trouble for schools

Though the Wayland Board of Education adopted the fiscal year 2015-16 budget June 22, some adjustments may have to be made, and those adjustments may not be pretty. Superintendent Norman…

Editor June 29, 2015

Columns

Yes It Is, It’s True: Let’s raise a glass to martyr Gerry Crane

EDITOR’S NOTE: Much of what follows is reprinted from a column I wrote more than two years ago. While the nation buzzes today about the Supreme Court’s historic decision on…

Editor June 26, 2015

Features

Bygone Days: A brief look at Wayland area’s past, Part 171

25 Years Ago — June 27, 1990 An expanded recycling program for Allegan County could be in lace by the first of 1991, applying a $25 tax per household, according…

Editor June 24, 2015

Features

Hopkins Public Schools recognizes 3 retiring employees

Three retiring longtime Hopkins Hopkins Public Schools employees were honored earlier this month at a meeting of the Hopkins Board of Education. Shown here with Superintendent Gary Wood (left) are…

Editor June 17, 2015

Columns

Monday Moanin’: Ruminations on Flag Day, iPads, civics, comfort

By Jeff Salisbury jeffsalisbury@charter.net All I know is what I read online “Well, what shall I talk about? I ain’t got anything funny to say. All I know is what…

Editor June 14, 2015

Features

Bygone Days; A brief look at Wayland area’s past, Part 169

25 Years Ago — June 13, 1990 Lee Pankratz, Lynn Mandaville, Mike Browand and Roxie Muczynski were the winners of the contests for two, four-year, one, two-year and one, one-year…

Editor June 10, 2015

Articles

Wayland schools’ 2015-16 budget shows more of the same

The Wayland Union school district’s $26.5 million budget for fiscal year 2015-16 is about the same as it has been for the past several years, but the fund balance has…

Editor June 8, 2015

Columns

Monday Moanin’: More tests, though they show no benefit

By Jeff Salisbury jeffsalisbury@charter.net "If it wasn’t for all the confusion there'd be no fusion at all." MEAP, MME, M-Step, PSAT, SAT According to a press release from the Michigan…

Editor June 7, 2015

Columns

Monday Moanin’: A for Average, F for Fraud, AP for inflation

By Jeff Salisbury jeffsalisbury@charter.net Wayland’s Class of 2015 went through commencement exercises recently and as is the common practice the district recognized those students who achieved top academic honors. According…

Editor May 31, 2015

Columns

Monday Moan: Sometimes I wonder who to ‘see about that’

By Jeff Salisbury jeffsalisbury@charter.net For most of my 24 years teaching journalism and “news-English” writing courses at Wayland High School, I showed the 1981 movie “Absence of Malice” starring Paul…

Editor May 24, 2015