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WHS students raise $3,600 for Wes Leonard Heart Foundation

February 15, 2016

Wayland High School spent the week creating awareness about the Wes Leonard Foundation and Friday night presented a check for $3,600 for the Wes Leonard Heart Team. The funds will help place Cardiac Science Automated External Defibrillators in Michigan schools. Wes Leonard was a standout Fennville High School basketball player...

Editorial

President Obama showed lack of class, sympathy in Scalia’s death

February 15, 2016

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia passed away 13 February and our president rushed off the golf course to express a few seconds of sympathy. A very brief statement of sympathy in which our president could not help himself in getting in a few digs at the late Justice Scalia’s interpretation...

Six WHS students qualify for State Solo & Ensemble Festival

February 15, 2016

Wayland High School students Brianne Hewitt, Monique Pou, Evan VandenToorn, Rachel Shaffer, Gray VanDerWeide and Rose Bolliger have qualified for the State Solo and Ensembleat Portage Central High School April 15 and 16. They will be preparing two pieces of music to perform in front of a judge. This requires...

Monday Moanin’: Researchers say kindergarten is new 1st grade

February 14, 2016

(Mister Journalism Blog by Jeff Salisbury) https://misterjournalism.wordpress.com/ Increased academic focus? Check. More testing? Check. Heightened expectations? Check. It’s official: kindergarten is the new first grade – and maybe more. A greater focus on academic skills can lead to something else getting pushed out or sidelined. In between 1998 and 2010, music...

Columns

Army Bob: If you love the Internet, thank the American Military

February 14, 2016

by Robert M. Traxler The Internet is an under appreciated marvel of the 20th/21st century. We have had the Internet for more than a generation now and it is hard to imagine life without instant knowledge on a scale unimaginable to my grandparents. If we wish to learn more about...

The Muck Starts Here: Dems comfy as GOP candidates drop like flies

February 14, 2016

by Barry Hastings It's nice being a Democrat, 'cause I can only remember one ticket (to the presidency) I've had doubts about... Kerrey/Edwards. And it wasn't the presidential nominee I distrusted. John Edwards reminded me (almost first sight) of an up-dated Spiro Agnew, Too damned slick, for a Demo. I've...

Lady Wildcat sophomore beats everybody in special bowling tourney

February 14, 2016

Wayland sophomore Sydney Urben defeated all comers Sunday in a special Brunswick High School Regional Tune-up Single Tournament. Urben not only claimed the individual championship in the women's competition, but also bested the boys' champ in a special "bragging rights" match. Wildcat boys' team member Cameron Heintzelman finished third on...

Democracy Tree: It’s reigning PAC money in the mitten state

February 13, 2016

by Amy Kerr Hardin Though the media would indicate otherwise, there’s more than a presidential election for voters to consider this year. In Michigan, the entire House comes up for re-election, as is the case every two years. (Senate terms coincide with the governor’s, to be decided every four years,...

Brooke Butts, only 34, of Dorr, dies from Wilson’s Disease

February 13, 2016

Mrs. Brooke Rene Butts of Dorr died after a battle with Wilson's Disease Thursday, Feb. 11. She was 34. She battled long and hard after this genetic disease damaged her liver and went undiagnosed until last fall. Two lives were saved because of her generous kidney donations. Brooke was described...

Wildcat boys finish 3rd in O-K Gold/Green bowling tourney

February 13, 2016

The Wayland boys’ varsity bowling team finished third in the O-K Gold/Green Conference bowling tournament Saturday. The Wildcats knocked down a total of 3,277 pins, well behind champion Byron Center’s 3,673, but not far behind South Christian’s 3,351. Because of the finish, coach Sherry Miklusicak’s group finished third in...

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