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Gubernatorial candidates featured in ‘Women Rising Up’ event

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Bill Cobbs was one of the Democratic Party gubernatorial candidates who spoke Saturday during the "Women Rising Up" event at Mahan Park on Brady Street in Allegan. Cobbs has generated a lot of interest from two Wayland citizens, Wayland High School senior Jon Seymour (right) and retired teacher Jeff Salisbury,...
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Brianna Hewitt wins John Phillip Sousa award at WHS

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Brianna Hewitt (right), daughter of Kim Gage Hewitt and the Rev. Mike Hewitt, was announced Thursday night as this year's winner of the John Phillip Sousa Award at Wayland High School's Band Awards Night. The honor has been bestowed on the top band student each year since 1955. (Photo supplied)
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Bygone Days: A look at the history of NE Allegan County

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25 Years Ago — May 5, 1992 Steve Lawrence, 36, and wife Candy Lawrence, 34, were bound over in Barry County District Court on charges in connection with the suspected arson death of Willard Lawrence, 74, of Gun Lake, retired president of the Felpausch Food Centers. Steve was bound over...
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WHS senior Gray VanDerWeide shows promise in theater

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Wayland High School senior Gray VanDerWeide has been working alongside FAC Director Courtney Baareman for the past two years. and has been accepted into the theater program (mainly lighting) at Northern Illinois University. Fo the production of "Almost, Maine" Friday, Saturday and Sunday, she was permitted to design the lighting for the show. "Gray has...
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Tristen Ortiz to continue playing soccer at Trine University

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Wayland High School senior Tristen Ortiz Tuesday signed his letter of intent to play soccer next year for Trine University in Angola, Ind. The four-year Wildcat star will play for a school that is part of America's oldest athletic collegiate conference, the MIAA. He is shown with coach Ben Sleeman...
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Business owners protest ‘cheap’ sale of industrial parcel

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A couple of business owners along Reno Drive told the Wayland City Council Monday night they weren’t particularly pleased with its decision last month to sell a nearby 25-acre industrial parcel for only $20,000. “When you sell it for $20,000 that devalues the property,” asserted Bruce Schwartz, owner of Wayland...
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WHS concert band earns Division I rating at state level

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The Wayland High School concert band received a Division I rating in the regional competition last month, which allowed them to play at the State MSBOA Festival this past week in Otsego. They came away with a Division I rating. Mrs. Kelli Smith is the director of the band. (Photo...
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Wayland school bond issues election will be Tuesday

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A special election on two bond proposals for the Wayland Union school district will be held Tuesday, May 2. Voters will be asked to consider two bond proposals that will add a new upper elementary school for fourth and fifth grades, add a new wing to the middle school to...
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Yes It Is, It’s True: Marketing and advertising are evil

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“He’s here, he’s there, he’s everywhere! So beware.” — Unknown Hanna-Barbera cartoon You cannot escape death, taxes… and marketing and advertising, which is ubiquitous, meaning it’s everywhere. If I take a walk, I see signs advertising something. If I drive my car, I see billboard signs. If I turn on...
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Bygone Days: A look at the history of NE Allegan County

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(From the archives of the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — April 29, 1992 Globe staff writer Linda Hutchings did an enterprise piece about the continuing problems of urban sprawl, in which developers are buying up farm land and turning it into high-density residential...
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