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Lady Wildcats runners-up in Ann Arbor Invitational
The Wayland varsity softball team made it to the championship game Saturday night before losing in the finals at the Ann Arbor Invitational to Dakota, the No. 1 ranked team…
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Wayland man wins National Endowment stipend
Mike D. Miller of Wayland has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities stipend for the summer institute "Teaching Beowulf in the Context of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature" at Western…
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Wildcat baseball team has gone 13-5 to climb to .500
Wayland swept Hopkins 8-4 and 16-1 Friday in a doubleheader to even its overall season record to 16-16. The Wildcats have fashioned a 13-5 record in their last 18 games…
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Yes It Is, It’s True: Churches should have to pay to play
Kevin Phillips, Republican strategist for Richard Nixon, wrote a book in 1969, "The Emerging Republican Majority," in which he correctly predicted the fall of the rust belt, the rise of…
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Service is Sunday for former Leighton Twp. woman
Marilyn Cone, 80, a member of the Hooker family of Leighton Township, died Thursday, May 19, of congestive heart failure. Marilyn was an active and faithful member of Good News…
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Wildcat boys tie for 7th, girls 10th in regionals
The Wayland boys’ varsity track team finished tied for seventh among 15 teams and the girls’ squad placed 10th at the Division 2 regional meet Friday at Houseman Field in…
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Lady Vikings reclaim D-3 regional track crown in style
The Hopkins girls’ varsity track team is back with a vengeance, capturing its first regional Division 3 championship since 2013. It’s not as though the Lady Vikings were far away…
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Five WHS cagers may play in Champions of Character
Nearly all of the seniors on the Wayland girls' varsity basketball team this past winter will be team members or alternates in the annual "Champions of Character" all-star basketball games at…
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WHS magna cum laude, cum laude academic students noted
Wayland High School has announced the seniors who have achieved magna cum laude academic honors and cum laude accolades. Listed in alphabetical for magna cum laude: Alexis Adrianse, Audrey Annable,…
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Basura: What would happen if prayer actually worked?
“I thought about praying for a bicycle, but then I realized it didn’t work that way. So I stole a bike, and prayed for forgiveness.” — Emo Phillips I thought about…