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Michigan slowly reopening; Covid stats still improving

February 2, 2021

The Allegan County Health Department will vaccinate Hopkins Public School faculty and staff Friday, Feb. 5, so K-12 students will have a full day of on-line instruction. The development is just one of many positive signs the Coronavirus crisis is declining in Michigan. The state Monday announced that more than...

Columns

Yes It’s True: That was the year that was, with Covid

December 31, 2020

Faith Guritz The year 2020 probably will go down in history as the most hated, all because of a viral pandemic, a seriously contentious presidential election and economic distress the likes of which we haven't seen in almost a century. Closer to home, the Covid-19 virus wreaked havoc with local...

Longtime teacher, coach principal Bob Marutz dies

October 14, 2020

Longtime Wayland Union Schools teacher, coach and administrator Robert Marutz died Monday. He was 90. Marutz came to Wayland from Caledonia in 1962 to teach science and biology at the high school and coach football, basketball and baseball. He also was one of the driver's training instructors. Several years later...

Fall sports resumption for me a head vs. heart issue

October 3, 2020

ACHTUNG: This is not a “fair and balanced” article. It is an editorial by the editorial. I’ve been called out by a persistent reader to present my opinion about having high school football and other sports while area schools have been reporting cases of Covid-19. I was taken aback, having...

Former WHS athlete joins Allegan Co. Sheriff’s Dept.

September 26, 2020

The newest deputy on the Allegan County Sheriff's Department is a familiar face to Wayland High School sports enthusiasts. Carter Morse, a WHS graduate, was sworn in this week. He was a star quarterback on the football team and all-conference performer in baseball. He is shown here with his mother,...

We need another FDR in perilous American times

March 13, 2020

ACHTUNG: The following is not a “fair and balanced” article. It is an editorial by the editor. I hereby recommend all who read this to go to You Tube and watch “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” the brilliant “Twilight Zone” episode written by the late, great Rod Serling....

Private celebration of life planned for Jefferey Lawler, 61

June 21, 2019

Martin High School graduate Jeffery Keith Lawler, 61, of Vicksburg, died Friday, June 14, in Kalamazoo. Jeff was born on Sept. 24, 1957, in Kalamazoo, to Ronald and Susan (Philley) Lawler. Jeff married Jane Leonard on Oct. 10, 1981. Like his father and grandfather, Jeff was in the paper industry,...

Yes It’s True: New used car dealer proves it’s a good neighbor

June 16, 2019

“And like a good neighbor, Broadmoor is there.” — With sincere apologies to State Farm Insurance My family's cleaning lady, whom I playfully call “Wal-Mart Annie,” gets a weekly good-bye from me with the admonition, “Don’t shop at Wal-Mart" She just laughs and later that day gleefully does exactly what...

Ranger Rick: Parents, not kids continue the rotting

April 30, 2019

When you get older, I think it is natural to think back from where you came from, where you in life's journey happened to make a turn or had an opportunity and you passed or took it, and where you ended up to date. Some people make poor decisions with...

Community Notices

Wayland schools to start before Labor Day next fall

January 17, 2019

The Wayland Union School District will begin its 2019-20 academic year on Monday, Aug. 26, instead of the day after Labor Day. The Wayland Board of Education Monday adopted the 2019-2020 school district calendar that had been previously ratified by the district’s faculty, the WUEA. Superintendent Norm Taylor, in a...

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