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Monday Moanin’: Nobody knows what the hell they’re doing

August 23, 2015

By Jeff Salisbury Maybe you’ve seen the video of people of all ages, offering words of wisdom to those of their generation, but just a bit younger. I spotted it on Facebook over the weekend and learned that it’s connected to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s online and radio magazine WireTap saying farewell. I’m...

The Muck Starts Here: We’re still paying for Iraq War debacle

August 23, 2015

by Barry Hastings (Much of this story will be in italics, and represents direct quotes from a piece I wrote for this site's publisher while he edited a regional newspaper some 12 years ago. The Supreme Court has ruled a reporter's stories are his, or hers, unless rights have been...

Democracy Tree: Attacks on Planned Parenthood bogus, unfair

August 22, 2015

Per usual, Michigan Republican lawmakers have proposed a spate of legislation in response to the deceptively edited Planned Parenthood tapes. A package of bills was introduced this week to prevent the dismemberment of aborted fetuses for the purpose of selling them for profit. Let’s go over this one more time...

Two grid coaches to make debuts in season openers Thursday

August 22, 2015

EDITOR'S NOTE: "We apologize for the previous apology." — Monty Python Martin indeed will open its football season Thursday evening at 7 .m. at Fennville. There has been conflicting information, but the game will not be Friday night. The season openers for the Wayland, Martin andHopkins football teams will be...

United Church of Wayland extends free lunches 1 more week

August 22, 2015

Though the original plan was to have the summer free meals program end Friday, Aug. 28, the United Church of Wayland is offering free lunches from Monday through Friday, Aug. 31 to Sept. 4. The Wayland Union schools “Funtastic” summer meals program will conclude this week, but through sponsorship from...

WHS frosh volleyball squad 2nd in Comstock Invitational

August 21, 2015

The Wayland High School freshman volleyball team got off to a quality start Friday by finishing runner-up to Coldwater in the Comstock Invitational. The Lady Wildcats, coached by Jessica Bredeweg, will have two more pre-season tournaments in the next few days, Saturday, Aug. 22, and Saturday, Aug. 29, at Sparta...

Lady Wildcats win own invitational with newcomer sensations

August 21, 2015

The Wayland girls’ cross-country team did something Friday morning that it has rarely done in recent times — win its own invitational. Sparked by outstanding debut performances by freshmen Zoe Antel and sophomore Kaitlyn Paul, the Lady Wildcats accumulated 38 team points, five better than runner-up Hamilton, which has become...

Hunter safety classes will be held Aug. 28 and 29 at WHS

August 21, 2015

Wayland Community Education will offer a hunter safety course Friday, Aug. 28, from 5:30 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, Aug, 29 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Wayland Union Fine Arts Center Grand Hall/Lobby. Prospective hunters must attend both classes. Hunter safety is required for those born after...

Longtime local music educator Helen Gambee passes at 90

August 21, 2015

Helen M. Gambee, longtime local vocal music educator, theater director and unusual character, died in Hospice care Friday morning. She was 90. Born April 16, 1925, in Hartford, Conn., she graduated from Braintree High School in 1943. After earning her collegiate degree, she taught music at Waterford High School and...

Tea Party has used GOP, must be set adrift by Republicans

August 20, 2015

ACHTUNG: This is not a “fair and balanced” story. It is an editorial by the editor. The sordid sexual tales of State Reps. Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat actually have much wider implications than just the futures of these two embattled political figures, the...

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