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By Carolyn Marnon – It’s hard to miss the huge guitar on the sign outside the humble house on Wayne Rd that was home to Victor Music Studio. This is the story of the man behind the music whose life sonata finally reached its coda. Alphonse Victor Tupakavich was born March...

By Carolyn Marnon – Patty has left the building. After 62 years working for the City of Wayne, Patty Ditmore has officially retired. She was most recently the administrative assistant for DPW (Department of Public Works.) When I interviewed Patty back in 2018, her plans...

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 – 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 – 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...

Joseph Henry Fisher age 94 of Coldwater, Michigan, formerly of Wayne, Michigan passedaway peacefully on Tuesday, January 19, 2021, at Masonville Place in Coldwater. He was born in Detroit, Michigan on July 24, 1926. Joseph attended school in Detroit and as a Native American spent...

By Carolyn Marnon – He met his sweetheart in high school, but she wasn’t his high school sweetheart. It took 30 years for Wayne Memorial High School alumni Antoine McKay and Michelle Guernsey to reconnect. Now they are on a journey to bring Wayne more recognition as the...

By Carolyn Marnon – With a sigh of relief, 2020 has now officially come to a close. Let’s look back on a few highlights and events that happened in Wayne last year and were mentioned in The Wayne Dispatch. The Wayne Police Department welcomed a golden retriever named Zeke...

By Carolyn Marnon – Linda Gable, the 29th District Court Administrator, retired on December 18 after serving the 29th District Court for 21 years. While Linda was in college studying for her degree in math and computer science, she took a summer job in 1983 as a file clerk...

The City of Wayne now has a Wayne County COVID-19 testing site. Two new, cost-free testing sites with reportedly shorter waiting times were opened in Wayne at 4635 Howe Road and Dearborn, both sites at HYPE locations. The sites are open 9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Monday through...