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Cancer takes community activist Joan Medendorp
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…
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WHS grad Sydney Urben, team win Hoosier Classic
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…
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Two Martin Odyssey of the Mind teams qualify for state
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…
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Tim Gibson to return to WHS as head football coach
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…
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Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County
(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — Feb. 15, 1995 Scott Sullivan wrote a feature story about KeLinda Scott…
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Ludema, Dobry join the offensive party in TK win
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…
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Mark Wakeman: Memory of Kingston Trio is special
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…
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Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County
(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…
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Service is Thursday for WHS grad Jerry Pattok, 82
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…
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Guest Column: So let us promote the social welfare
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…