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November 2015 News Briefs

Unofficial Election Results Mayor Susan M. Rowe – 960 Bob Boertje – 796 Lenard Fisher – 38 City Council At-Large Anthony Miller –  1149 Lucietta A. Mile – 360 City Council Ward 1 Christopher Sanders – 794 Allen J. Shuh – 544 Alfred Brock...

Living for this City

By Courtney Conover – He’s known as a husband to his wife Sue, dad to his three children, and to the residents of Wayne, he has long been known as councilman. “Some people call me Al, but those close to me know that I prefer Albert,” says Albert Damitio, who, after 22 years...

Wayne Memorial students to perfom “The Nutcracker”

By Carolyn Marnon – “The Nutcracker” is a family friendly production which incorporates music and dance and is the fall play at Wayne Memorial High School.  “I chose ‘The Nutcracker’ as our fall production because the theme for the 2015/16 show season is ‘family friendly...

Rosie the Riveters take back World Record

By Carolyn Marnon – 1,084.  That was the number to beat, set by a group in Richmond, California on August 15 of this year, to take back the Guinness World Record title for largest gathering of Rosie the Riveters.  The Willow Run Bomber Plant surpassed that number with 2,096...

New businesses are opening in town

By Carolyn Marnon – Biggby Coffee 35545 W. Michigan Avenue Hours: 6 a.m.-9 p.m. Biggby Coffee is a a Lansing, Michigan-based company.  All stores are owned by franchisees; there are no corporate stores.  Derek Shear, operating manager/owner of the Wayne Biggby, has lived in...

Distinguished Young Women awarded next month

By Carolyn Marnon – Twelve to fourteen young women from Wayne and Westland are preparing for the annual Distinguished Young Women awards on December 4.  Distinguished Young Women is a national scholarship program that inspires high school girls to develop their full,...

Small Business Saturday

By Lindsey Wooten – Saturday, November 28th, 2015 Small Business Saturday is an American shopping holiday held on the Saturday after US Thanksgiving during one of the busiest shopping periods of the year. First observed on November 27, 2010, it is a counterpart to Black...

October Police Community Meeting

By Carolyn Marnon – The Wayne Police Department is budgeted for 24 police officers and currently has 22.  There are 3 anticipated retirements before July, 2016 which could bring that number down further. The training process for an officer is approximately 4 months and...

Van Stipdonk newest diamond of the community

By Dee Ryan – Our newest Diamond of the Community—Lois Van Stipdonk, is a woman of great charm, talent and doer of many good works.  Wayne is a better place because of Lois. She is an officer in our city’s Rotary Club, a former Director of the Wayne Library, and she...

Wayne boy’s cross country on a learning curve

By Dave Merchant – The Zebra cross country team always has a tough league to run in and this season was no different. Two of the top three teams in the state are in their conference. The number two team is Northville and the number three team is Novi. Boys’ cross country...
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