In costumes ranging from silly to scary, runners and walkers brought their Halloween spirits to the Golay Community Center’s Monster Mash 5K on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. In its tenth year, the Cambridge City community event offers trophies for top finishers as well as best costume. Browse photos of the event by Chris Hardie in […]
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Chris Hardie is the owner and publisher of the Western Wayne News.
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PHOTOS: 4th Street Fair fall fun
Fairgoers enjoyed fall festival fun at the 4th Street Fair on Oct. 5, 2024. This year’s fair featured nearly 150 vendors, with booths showcasing crafts, food, nonprofit organizations, political parties, churches, service groups and others from around the region. Local musical talent also entertained fairgoers. View photos taken by Chris Hardie below.
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Athletes claim gender discrimination
Some Richmond High School volleyball players say the school has shown a pattern of discrimination against girls sports teams there, and are asking school administrators, and possibly state officials, to take action. Richmond Community Schools officials are asking the community to avoid speculation until an investigation is complete. RHS student and girls varsity volleyball player […]
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Reflections on the firehose of newspaper publishing
Oct. 1 marked two years into my ownership of the Western Wayne News, and there’s one word that comes to mind to describe the experience: firehose. There’s of course the firehose of information about news, events, sports, government activities, education, the arts, crime and policing, and all of the other stuff happening in Wayne County. […]
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911, businesses affected by global software bug
The world woke up Friday, July 19, to news of a software bug affecting flights, banking, broadcasters, health care and emergency operations, and Wayne County residents and businesses weren’t immune. “Due to the Crowdstrike outage, our 911 center was impacted through our vendor. Both our emergency and non-emergency lines have been moved to our backup […]
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Help wanted: WWN uncomfortably short-staffed
When you hear of print newspapers around the country closing their doors forever, it can be for a variety of reasons. Sometimes the cost of producing, printing and mailing the publication has increased beyond the income that can be generated from advertising or subscriptions. Sometimes competition from online news sources has proven to be too […]
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Gallery: Hot air balloon event
Richmond Rose Garden volunteers organized the 10th 1stBLOOM&GLOW on Thursday, June 6, 2024. The event celebrates the first blooms on the garden’s hundreds of rose bushes and raises money to maintain them. After a sold out garden gala including food from area restaurants and caterers, onlookers enjoyed watching several hot air balloons inflate on Glen […]
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2024 primary election results
Wayne County’s Republican voters nominated candidates for judge, commissioner, clerk of courts, treasurer and coroner, along with various state and federal offices, in the 2024 primary election held today. Ronald J. “Ron” Moore won the primary race for Superior Court 1 judge with 3,000 votes, or 48%, defeating J. Clayton Miller (1,858 votes) and Austin […]
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Commissioners send $200K in opioid funds to law enforcement
Wayne County’s commissioners have approved another distribution of opioid settlement funds, granting $201,970.02 to area law enforcement agencies. A unanimous vote 3-0 in favor of the fund usage happened at their April 24 regular meeting. Requested items on police department wish lists submitted to commissioners included funds for K-9 programs ($28,500 for Sheriff’s office, $7K […]
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Local filmmakers earn festival award
Their short film may have been about the challenges of loneliness, but Emily Hawkins and Maya Hawkins hopefully felt the love Friday when their creation won the Audience Choice Award at the 17th Annual Phantoscope High School Film Festival. The duo, students at Richmond High School, produced “Everybody’s Lonely” about a teenager struggling to get […]