April 2018 – Page 7

Ranger Rick: Trump fights Cloward-Piven takeover

Below is the classic socialist strategy to turn a productive, growing, healthy capitalist system into a pile of dung. My liberal friends in this publication excoriate me by my insistence…

Editor April 17, 2018

Features

These are this year’s April showers that bring…

As someone said this morning, "This not supposed to be what they mean when they talk about April Showers." It's April 17 and some Wayland school district parents suggested schools…

Editor April 17, 2018

Obituaries

Service Saturday for Hazel P. Anderson, 97, of Dorr

Services for Hazel P. Anderson of Dorr will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 21, at the Old Time Methodist Church 5590 Whittenyville Ave. Alto Hazel Pearl Powers Anderson was…

Editor April 17, 2018

Articles

Lumberyard Events owners asked to be at city meeting

The Wayland City Council wants owners Mark and Marty Shepard to attend the next meeting May 7 to answer questions about parking requirements for their new Lumberyard Events Center…

Editor April 16, 2018

Columns

The Subterranean: ‘Ready Player One’ fun with gaming

Review of Ready Player One *** 1/2 out of five stars Currently in theaters “Shall we play a game?” — Joshua, the AI, in WarGames (1983) by Walter G. Tarrow…

Editor April 16, 2018

Columns

Basura: So my dad’s tougher than your dad

“Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.” — George Santayana, philosopher, essayist, poet, and…

Editor April 16, 2018

Columns

Yes It Is It’s True: United we stand, but divided we fall

A funny thing happened on the way home from the forum Tuesday night. I came to the painfully obvious conclusion that the United States of America really is a house…

Editor April 15, 2018

Community Notices

Wayland Robotics team #6090 qualifies for Worlds

Team #6090, Wayland Wildcat Robotics has qualified for FIRST Worlds Championship and will be heading to Detroit April 25-28. A team spokesperson said, "Our robot held up awesome to the relentless…

Editor April 15, 2018

Community Notices

Weekend woes with wild, wet, windy wintery weather

It was indeed a wet and wild weekend, as lot of rain, gusty winds, snow. ice and sleet visited West Michigan in the middle of April. An unusual sight was…

Editor April 15, 2018

Articles

Landing Marina limited to 6 boat slips on S. Gun Lake

by Austin Marsman At least 100 people attended a public Michigan Department of Environmental Quality hearing Wednesday on a marina expansion request for 30 slips and a boat launch on…

Editor April 15, 2018