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Communities refuse to pay Highland Park’s water debt

By Sarah Shurge – $54 million dollars! That is what the City of Wayne community along with 87 others is paying in accumulated debt for a project repair that was supposed to be completed in three to four days, but never was ten years later. In 2012, the State of Michigan...

Three new restaurants coming to Wayne

By Sarah Shurge – It’s an exciting time for the City of Wayne as three new restaurants: Lee’s Chicken, Wingstop, and Taste The Smoke will be coming to Wayne in the near future. “This will diversify our offering of places to eat and keep people from leaving the city when...
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Frazier’s Towing enters contract with Police Department

By Sarah Shurge – It happened December 2, 2021 at 2 p.m., Jeff Frazier, owner of Frazier’s Auto Service Towing, was stuck at home with COVID, when his cousin Larry Frazier came to his house to let him know the Wayne Police Department called. The police department needs to...
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You can recycle your metal here in Wayne

By Carolyn Marnon – What do you do when your washer and/or dryer have run their final cycles and kerplunked on you? Do you drag them to the curb in the hopes that a metal scrapper will come by soon and get rid of this now outdoor eyesore? Does the curb also see the demise...
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Wayne Business and Professional Women looks back on 92 years of service and success – and embraces what’s to come.

By Courtney Conover – Wife. Mother. Sister. Daughter. The roles of women in our society today are varying and wide-ranging. Still, it is not at all uncommon for women to be thought of—at least initially—within the confines of the roles above. And there’s a good reason for...
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“White Boy Rick” visits Wayne Releaf

By Sarah Shurge – Picture this: you visit a cannabis dispensary. Recreational marijuana was legalized in Michigan in 2018, so you think nothing of it. Now picture this instead: you’ve spent 32 years in prison for a drug offense, you are the longest-serving...
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New homes in Kiawanis Park build on track

By Sarah Shurge – In February, two structures stood alone surrounded by snow. Now there are four structures. One stands in Lot 3, one in Lot 4, one in Lot 13, and the last in Lot 14. To some, it might look like an incomplete job. To others, it might look like progress...
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Wayne DDA: The year 2021 in review

By Sarah Shurge – Many of the events you attended and enjoyed in Wayne throughout 2021 could not have been possible without the City of Wayne Downtown Development Authority (DDA) and you probably didn’t even know it. The DDA has many purposes, some of which are to correct...
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Post, Smythe, Lutz & Ziel celebrate 60 years

By Sarah Shurge – Three Cleary University graduates and one of their professors decided to create a small business in 1961. 60 years later, that business has grown and is still going strong. Post, Smythe, Lutz & Ziel, LLP (PSLZ) was originally founded as an accounting...
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There’s a new ring in town

By Courtney Conover – Here’s the thing about legends: Even in the wake of their departure, greatness persists. At a press conference held at downtown Detroit’s TCF Center on October 9, 2021, Kronk Boxing Detroit revealed a new partnership between Sylvia Steward-Williams,...