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Needs assessment likely to focus on WHS pool for bond issue
The Wayland Board of Education is getting ready to take the first step toward having a bond issue, very likely to upgrade or replace the aging swimming pool at the…
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Monday Moanin’: So what is it that we are all so afraid of?
By Jeff Salisbury jeffsalisbury@charter.net What are we all so afraid of? “I'm not afraid To take a stand Everybody Come take my hand We'll walk this road together, through the…
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Kalamazoo Nature Center visit highlights free meals week
The sixth week of the Wayland Union School District’s free meals summer program for children resumes Monday and continues through Friday, July 17. The highlight program of the week will…
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WHS grad Sofia Nelson joins Detroit public defender’s office
Sofia Valencia Nelson, a 2005 graduate of Wayland High School, is taking a new position as a public defender with the Appellate Defender’s Office in Detroit. The daughter of Mary…
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WHS grad Brittini Merchant named assistant coach at SIUE
Brittini Merchant (left), shown here with her aunt Cheri Ritz, has been named an assistant coach for the softball team at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Merchant, a 2007 graduate of…
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The Muck Starts Here: We should have let the South secede
by Barry Hastings An idiot who summers near me drives a big, noisy, older pickup, with all the trimmings, including a very large Confederate Battle Flag (still popular with red-necks…
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Wayland band willing to take dunk tank plunges Saturday
As the annual Main Street celebration approaches this Saturday, it appears some members of the headliner band Wayland are stepping up to volunteer for the dunk tank besides provide music.…
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Funeral Thursday for Jon Bednarsky of Moline, who died of heart attack
Tragedy struck a Moline family for the second time in less than three years with the death of Jon Bednarsky Friday morning. His daughter, Samantha, found him on the floor…
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Robert J. Minnema, 62, of Wayland passes
Robert John Minnema Sr., age 62, of Wayland, died Thursday, July 9. Robert was retired after 40 years at Knoll Group, Local 1615 United Brotherhood of Carpenters. He is survived…
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Let’s retire runner-up sign and brag only about being No. 1
“It ain’t braggin’ if it’s true. Muhammed Ali said that. Back when he was a young man. Back when he was Cassius Clay. Before he had too many fights and…