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Chuck Frederick selected VFW Teacher of the Year

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Chuck Frederick (center), Wayland Union High School teacher, is this year's recipient of the VFW Teacher of the Year. He received the award at the annual Pearl Harbor Day assembly Friday at Wayland Middle School. Mr. Frederick has taught here for 32 years.
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Career Connections students win gold, bronze medals

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Career Connections Academy students from Wayland High School competed in the Alternative Athletic League Bowling Tournament Wednesday. The students had a great time and took home two bronze medals and a gold medal.
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Former WHS cheerleader Laraine Oswald Anderson has died

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Laraine Oswald Anderson Word has been received of the death Nov. 25 of Laraine Oswald Anderson, a 1964 graduate of Wayland High School. She was presumed to be 73. Joan Morgenstern Miller, a classmate, said she had been called by Laraine's husband to announce her passing. Her husband of 52...
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Local winter sports seasons to get under way this week

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Winter sports contests will get under way later this week for Hopkins, Martin and Wayland high schools. The earliest games will take place Tuesday event at 7 p.m. when the Martin and Wayland girls’ varsity basketball teams will make their debuts. Wayland, under fourth-year coach Wes Hudson, will be on...
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For the Bottralls, the family that bowls together…

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Kadence Bottrall and her father, Eric, bowled together in the GLJGT Adult-Youth Tournament in Jackson last weekend. Eric, head girls' coach at Wayland High School, said, "It didn’t start out very well for the both of us. The pattern was very challenging and we both managed to average over 200 for...
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Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County

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(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — Nov. 30, 1994 High school shop class from days long ago. Martha Thomas, 83, of Wyoming, was struck by a hunter’s stray bullet in a freak accident while visiting her brother at...
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WHS athletic complex may include artificial turf in 2021

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Prospects look good for artificial turf at the Wayland High School football stadium and softball, baseball and soccer fields. Patricia Velie, director of buildings and grounds and finance director for the school district, outlined projects and costs for the next two academic years, 2019-20 and 1920-21, which includes spending nearly...
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Avery Hudson begins 3rd year with Davenport hoops squad

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Avery Hudson Wayland High School graduate Avery Hudson is beginning his third season as a starting guard on the Davenport University basketball team. Hudson, a 2017 WHS grad, started in all 31 games last year as a sophomore. He shot 42.6% from the field and 40.2% from three-point territory. averaged...
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Yes, It’s True: Standing for Pledge, anthem a matter of manners

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“What mighty contests arise from trivial things.” — Alexander Pope There was a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth in the past week over the news the Grand Valley State University Student Senate voted 21-10 not to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of its meetings. Backlash...
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WHS grad Sydney Ritz on 2nd all-star team for Spring Arbor

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Wayland High School graduate Sydney Ritz has been named to the second unit of the all-Crossroads League team as a senior playing for Spring Arbor University. Ritz, who starred in volleyball and basketball for the Lady Wildcats, graduating in 2016, was named for the second consecutive season and picked up...
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