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By Carolyn Marnon – The Wayne Chamber of Commerce has a new Executive Director and a new Board of Directors for 2021. The newly hired Executive Director is Zachery Burskey who started with the Chamber in December. He reported that his main goal will be to get things...

By Carolyn Marnon – Public Act 57 requires the DDA (Downtown Development Authority) conduct two informational meetings per year. The first meeting was held during the DDA’s regular Board meeting on December 9 and the second was held at the December 15 city council meeting....

By Carolyn Marnon – On September 12, 2020, officers from the Wayne Police Department were dispatched to the area of E. Michigan Ave. and Fourth St. in the City of Wayne for a serious injury accident. Officers arrived on scene to see that an SUV had collided with a tree in...

By Carolyn Marnon –  “June 30 was seven months ago, so a lot has happened over the summer and through the fall and into the winter and so the audit, it’s a little bit of old news at this point, but it does bear going over it,” said Brian Camiller of Plante Moran when...

By Carolyn Marnon – The Wayne City Council approved the City of Wayne 2020 Master Plan at the January 19, 2021 council meeting. Mayor John Rhaesa commented, “We don’t want to just have a plan and not do anything with it, so I think that’s going to be the next challenge for...

By Carolyn Marnon – 400 City of Wayne residents were able to receive their first COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, February 26. Wayne County held a vaccination clinic at HYPE Recreation Center in Wayne. Residents age 65 and older were eligible for the shots, which happened to be...

By Carolyn Marnon – February brings images of hearts, love and candy kisses. Every year, we bring you the love stories of community members willing to share what has made their relationship full of hearts. This year, we bring you the stories of Kurt and Angie Jarman, owners...

Kathryn Sample, City of Wayne Finance Director, requested that City Council approve a waiver of the 3% Winter Tax Penalty on winter tax bills for payments received after February 15, 2021 through the end of the business day on March 1, 2021. “The City of Wayne has always followed...

By Carolyn Marnon – The Wayne Public Library has partnered with a group of 49 other TLN (The Library Network) libraries to establish Download Destination, a group of southeastern Michigan TLN (The Library Network) libraries making OverDrive digital materials available to...

By Carolyn Marnon – When you budget for yourself and/or your family, you keep track of what money comes in, what money goes out, and you generally have a plan for the year. When a municipality budgets, the budget is a prediction of what that local government is going to do,...