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Monday Moan: Here’s hoping Wayland board makes it 3-for-3

March 29, 2015

By Jeff Salisbury jeffsalisbury@charter.net In recent weeks we’ve seen the Wayland board go 2-for-2 in wise decisions and hopefully they are poised to make it 3-for-3 running the table so to speak in March. First it was the decision to opt out of the thoroughly redundant Allegan County Early College...

‘Best small business in America’ to run seminar in Wayland

March 29, 2015

Zingerman's of Ann Arbor, billed as the "best small business in America," will handle a four-hour seminar for business owners and volunteers from noon to 4 p.m. Thursday, April 16, at the Windsor Woods Community Room. Zingerman's, which opened as a delicatessen in March 1982, now does $45 million worth...

The Muck Starts Here: On the road to perdition with ISIL

March 29, 2015

By Barry Hastings Every time I wake to the morning news I'm closer to screaming, "This President and his military advisers are leading us down the road to defeat and perdition." It was just a short while ago he told an interviewer the administration was, "confident we have control of...

Public safety beat: Fire battled at Mobile Pallet Services

March 29, 2015

The Wayland Fire Department and several other departments were battling a fire at Mobile Pallet Services Inc. Sunday afternoon. Local officials reported that a fire was burning a large pile of sawdust behind the Pallet plant was burning and it threatened to spread to a nearby wooded area. Dorr, Hopkins...

For what it’s worth: Wildcats, Vikings showed us quality hoops

March 28, 2015

ACHTUNG: This is not a “fair and balanced” story. It is an editorial by the editor. It’s the silver lining in the dark cloud. It’s the consolation for the inconsolable. Saturday’s finals results in the state high school basketball tournaments provided Wayland and Hopkins with some evidence they play pretty...

Democracy Tree: Follow the money to block a Michigan union

March 28, 2015

by Amy Kerr Hardin Today’s Traverse City Record-Eagle opined on a transparency issue at Northwestern Michigan College over exorbitant legal fees paid to the silk-stocking law firm Miller Canfield. At $500 an hour, the community college was charged a whopping $46,000+ by the downstate firm to guide school administrators through...

WHS thespians put together murder mystery dinner

March 27, 2015

Members of the Wayland High School drama program put on the annual "Murder Mystery Dinner" Friday evening at the Fine Arts Center. Guests were treated to a dinner and then regaled with a tale of a murder mystery, directed by instructor Becky Black (far left). Proceeds from the fun go...

Yes It Is, It’s True: Death stories ain’t what they used to be

March 27, 2015

"Those are people who died, died. They were all my friends, and they died." — Jim Carroll Band Ink-stained wretches from a bygone era will tell you one of the first jobs they learned working at a newspaper was writing obituaries. That's changed a lot over the years. These days...

Wildcat senior Lacey James named all-state in Class B

March 27, 2015

Wayland High School senior center Lacey James has been named to the Associated Press Class B all-state basketball team. The 6-7 pivot averaged almost 20 points and 15 rebounds per game for the Wildcats, who fashioned a 19-4 overall record, but bowed out of the state tournament to Wyoming Godwin...

Columns

Army Bob: Be careful about promises of social justice

March 26, 2015

by Robert M. Traxler The presidential election circus is rapidly descending upon us, heaven help us all. The “social justice” movement will be a hotly debated issue for the next twenty months. Who can be against social justice? It sounds like a wonderful concept and it is an intoxicating theory....

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