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Potential Moline Elementary buyer seeks land contract

Stephen Austin, potential buyer of the old Moline Elementary School building, now is asking the Wayland Board of Education if it is willing to sell on a land contract. In…

Editor February 22, 2016

Articles

B & R Excavating moves business from Wayland to Shelbyville

B & R Excavating, owned by Wayland High School graduates Bill and Rita Martin, have announced they have moved their business from 710 West Cherry St. in Wayland to a…

Editor February 22, 2016

Articles

Wayland schools’ earliest date for bond election is May 2017

There won’t be an election this year on the Wayland Union school district’s plans to renovate and upgrade facilities. The Board of Education, which was looking at the possibility of…

Editor February 22, 2016

Articles

Wayland schools on track for $306,000 2016-17 budget deficit

Despite some positive economic signs, the Wayland Union school district is on track for a budget deficit of about $306,000 for the end of the 2016-17 iscal year. Finance Director…

Editor February 22, 2016

Editorial

We really do have to do something about mass shootings

“Ain’t no pink fag legislator gonna say I can’t have guns.” — The Fugs, 1968, “It Crawled into My Hand, Honest.” I have mixed emotions about the latest of an…

Editor February 22, 2016

Features

Hopkins to send 2 teams, individual to state FFA contest

Hopkins High School was host to the FFA regional leadership contests last Thursday night and two teams and an individual earned gold awards to advance to the state competition. "It…

Editor February 22, 2016

Features

High school biology students help 3rd-graders dissect cow’s eye

Third-graders from Dorr Elementary were given a hands-on lesson on the anatomy of the eye last week. High school students from Lynn Gosson’s AP Biology class worked with the younger…

Editor February 22, 2016

Columns

Monday Moanin’: A couple of ideas for better early education

(From the blog of Mister Journalism: Reading, Sharing, Discussing, Learning) By Jeff Salisbury https://misterjournalism.wordpress.com/ Source: Reading Readiness Has To Do With The Body Reading Readiness has to do with the body By…

Editor February 21, 2016

Columns

Barry Hastings: There was a pipeline from Calumet to Notre Dame

Once upon a time and far, far away, I was living in a place where jobs were hard to find, and, outside a few specific jobs, paid very little. For…

Editor February 21, 2016

Sports

Lady Wildcats coach 2nd in bowling tourney; soph wins gold

Wayland High School girls' varsity bowling coach Bill Holbrook and sophomore Sydney Urban, one of his prize pupils, bowled Sunday in the State Games of Michigan - Winter Games. Holbrook…

Editor February 21, 2016