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By Courtney Conover – From toy doctor kits and baby dolls to miniature squad cars and play food, it’s a known fact that a child’s play often imitates real life. This principle certainly applies to Jim Demmer, vice president of Jack Demmer Ford here in Wayne. “I recall being...

By Sarah Shurge – During the Mackinac Policy Conference on June 3rd, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced an investment by Ford of more than $2 billion across the company’s plants in Michigan. “Today’s announcement marks another historic economic win for the state in...

By Courtney Conover – At the age of 45, my memory isn’t horrible, but it’s been better. If I didn’t write it down, I would be liable of forgetting that I had signed up to bring the paper plates for my son’s Detroit Tigers opening day party at school, for example. There are...

The American Pickers are excited to return to Michigan! They plan to film episodes of The History Channel hit television series throughout our area in May 2022. AMERICAN PICKERS is a documentary series that explores the fascinating world of antique “picking” on The History...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...