Wayland High School

Cancer takes community activist Joan Medendorp

February 17, 2020

Joan Medendorp, age 73, of Wayland, lost her battle to cancer on Saturday, Feb. 15. Joan Pietila was born on Oct. 20, 1946, in Sault Saint Marie. She graduated from Muskegon High School in 1965. She went on to get her associates degree from Grand Rapids Community College and a...

WHS grad Sydney Urben, team win Hoosier Classic

February 16, 2020

Wayland High School graduate Sydney Urben and her Mount Mercy University (Iowa) teammates captured the championship in the Hoosier Classic Sunday. Urben is a 2018 graduate of Wayland High School and a state champion and runner-up in Division 2 during her prep career. She and her team finished ahead of...

Two Martin Odyssey of the Mind teams qualify for state

February 15, 2020

Two of the Martin Odyssey of the Mind teams that performed at Wayland Union High School in regional competition have qualified to advance to the state level at Middleville Thornapple High School.

Tim Gibson to return to WHS as head football coach

February 13, 2020

Tim Gibson Tim Gibson has been hired to return to Wayland as varsity football coach. Gibson may be best remembered as the coach of the Wildcat team that made it to the MHSAA Division 3 state semifinals in 2002. He comes Grand Rapids Catholic Central, where he was a varsity...

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

February 12, 2020

(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — Feb. 15, 1995 The halls at Pine Street Elementary today. (Photos courtesy of Brandon Halloran) Scott Sullivan wrote a feature story about KeLinda Scott of the Wayland Foster Home for Animals, who...

Ludema, Dobry join the offensive party in TK win

February 7, 2020

Emma Ludema Haley Dobry Both the Wayland and Middleville Thornapple Kellogg girls’ basketball teams are having strange seasons. Wayland, coming off an awful loss in which it scored only 17 points and coach Wes Hudson was ejected and served a one-game suspension over too much “discussion” with refs at Lowell,...

Mark Wakeman: Memory of Kingston Trio is special

February 5, 2020

In November of 1958, when I was 11 years old, something happened that I was unaware of at the time, but would later prove to be a major factor in determining the path my life would take. The event was a song called "Tom Dooley," and it was a #1...

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

February 5, 2020

(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — Feb. 8, 1995 Anita Kerber wrote a letter to the editor insisting that the Hopkins Public Schools indeed have been in crisis because of overcrowding and needs for new buildings, made worse...

Service is Thursday for WHS grad Jerry Pattok, 82

February 4, 2020

1955 Wayland High School graduate Gerald LeRoy Pattok, age 82, of Hastings, died Jan. 31. Gerald was born on Oct. 7, 1937, in Hilliards, the son of John and Anna (Lutostanski) Pattok. He ran track and played tennis and football while at Wayland High School. He attended Kalamazoo College on...

Guest Column: So let us promote the social welfare

February 2, 2020

EDITOR'S NOTE: Jon Seymour is a 2017 graduate of Wayland High School, a student at Grand Valley State University and an employee at Steelcase and McDonald's. He was student rep for the Wayland City Council and Wayland Board of Education and winner of the Daughters of the American Revolution Award....

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