Wayland High School

WHS foreign exchange student still surviving invasion of Ukraine

EDITOR'S NOTE: Since posting earlier today, Former WHS foreign exchange student Olya Schenky has sent along updated information as follows: "Ahmed and I are safe today. Russian soldiers tried to…

Editor February 27, 2022

Sports

Keep on rollin’: It’s deja vu for Cats’ Kadence Bottrall

Kadence Bottrall with another individual trophy. Well, here we go again. Wayland High School junior Kadence Bottrall earned her second straight individual regional bowling championship Saturday and she and senior…

Editor February 26, 2022

Sports

Local 8th-grader ties state indoor pole vault record

Wayland Middle School eighth-grader Evie Mathis, daughter of Rick and Cindy Mathis of Wayland, placed sixth amongst high school jumpers Saturday in the Michigan Indoor State Meet at the LAB…

Editor February 26, 2022

Features

WHS foreign exchange student from Ukraine safe

Olya Schenky, shown here with Wayland High School Principal Tom Cutler, receives her diploma in 2016. Olya Schenky, perhaps Wayland’s first-ever Muslim foreign exchange student, is safe in Ukraine thus…

Editor February 24, 2022

Features

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

(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now historical library in downtown Dorr) Early automobile enthusiast R.B. Reidlinger 25 Years Ago — Feb. 24, 1997 A special “Project Peace”…

Editor February 23, 2022

Features

Local woodcarving artist has entries in Grand Haven

Woodcarving artist David Kerley, son of longtime Wayland High School teacher Kerley, has had two of his creations accepted in the Winter Arts Festival at Gallery Uptown in Grand Haven.…

Editor February 23, 2022

Obituaries

Kevin Stearns, 2007 WHS graduate, dies at age 32

Kevin Michael Stearns, age 32, died Thursday, Jan. 20, in Comstock Park, Mich. Kevin was born April 4, 1989, in Grand Rapids, the son of Mary Beth Stearns (Czajkowski) and…

Editor February 22, 2022

Articles

Wayland schools plan a 2-series request for bonds

The current Wayland High School pool, which is 48 years old and has fallen into disrepair. The Wayland Union school district’s plans to have a bond election during the August…

Editor February 21, 2022

Sports

WHS Grad Cory Ainsworth earns 2nd academic award

Wayland High School graduate Cory Ainsworth of Cornerstone Basketball has earned his second consecutive Academic All America, as selected by CoSIDA All-District honor after his performance both on the court…

Editor February 18, 2022

Sports

Lady ‘Cats upset, but guys have fun in win vs. Catholic

Wildcat seniors Carson Beck and Mark Musgrave III It was two wildly different days Monday for the Wayland High School bowling teams. The boys waltzed to victory over Grand Rapids…

Editor February 15, 2022