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By Jenny Johnson –  Ray and Jim Kull of K&S Auto Service are always going the extra mile for their customers.  This month they will celebrate their 30th anniversary and they have a special way of recognizing it. They give back to the community by donating a 2006 Ford...

  By Darlene Hawley – Growing up in Wayne during the nineteen forties, fifties and sixties was an adventure.  Life was slower then and everything revolved around our little community.  Children played at the parks in the neighborhoods all day and came home when it started...

By Lindsey Wooten – The Downtown Wayne Scarecrow show will return this year. The event is presented by Wayne Main Street (formerly known as Wayne Ripple Effect). How it Works: For $20, each group or individual will design and build a scarecrow using a pre-made frame and...

By Jenny Johnson – Wayne has a lot of award winning residents. But this June Steve Julin added an Emmy to that collection. Julin, a Wayne resident and 1985 Wayne Memorial High School alumni won for Best Magazine Show in Michigan. Great Lakes~Great Tastes is a half hour show...

By Dee Ryan – A big welcome to Steven McGladdery.  He’s the new Co-Director of the Wayne Library.  Steve started working on July 1st, and has been working 20 hours a week. Paulette Medvecky and the staff at the Library have been taking the new Co-Director around our city...

By Lindsey Wooten – July has been a month of tremendous progress for the Wayne Ripple Effect. Now that our hard-working volunteers have earned Wayne the status of being a “Michigan Main Street Community,” it is time to continue working on accomplishing the one thing we all want...

By Dee Ryan – Love is in the air!  The news comes from Jake’s Way—that iconic lounge at the corner of Sims and Wayne Rd.  Manager, Kyna Carlson, and Dave Jakeway became husband and wife on June16th.  The wedding was in Las Vegas at the KISS Wedding Chapel. At a KISS...

By Lindsey Wooten – Wayne Ripple Effect, a non-profit volunteer driven downtown revitalization effort, recently achieved a tremendous goal of becoming a Michigan Main Street Community. Main Street is a national program that was created by the National Trust for Historic...

By Dee Ryan – Father Francisco Radecki really gave me the cook’s tour.  He’s the Pastor of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church and has been for 21 years.  You know St. Joseph’s— that’s the beautiful little church at 4th St. and Michigan Ave. In 1990 the church, rectory and...

By Darlene Hawley – In 1824, when George M. Johnson bought 80 acres of land from the U.S. government for $100 and built his log tavern on land near the Rouge River and the old Sauk Trail, the landscape of the wilderness was changed forever.  Travelers from Detroit and the...