Article by Don Seaman

Article by Don Seaman

Article by Don Seaman

Conan Ward is a textbook Wayne guy.

A common trope of success is in a chess analogy, that someone who has more than their fair share of success is “they’re playing 3D chess and everyone else is playing checkers.”

At a certain point in nearly every little girl’s life, they dream of being a ballerina.

When you hear about a seven-year-old who has their own business card, you might think that this is a kid who knows exactly what she’s going to do with her life.

Trust is a many-faceted emotion. It’s a byproduct of faith, and a cousin of results. It’s a triangle that has no real beginning - you need to just jump right in, which is what Jennifer Wylie and Sean Anderson did when their professional lives simultaneously became unstable. It was time to replace that third triangle wall.

Article by Don Seaman

Spending a frigid winter day in the woods with your dad, hoping to encounter a bear, might not seem like a typical weekend activity for someone, but for Julianne Livni, there’s nowhere she’d rather be.

It all began innocently for Chris Nolan. He was running his own small IT consulting business back in the early 2000’s, when a friend of his wife had a thought. She’d been working for Home Depot in their Home Improvement sales group and felt that he’d be great for a spot in their group. He was intrigued by the possibility of working for a big, solid company, but had no experience with home improvement whatsoever.

Going into the family business often gets a bit…messy. If there’s no chemistry, everyone could become testy, and everything starts to feel dirty and soiled. Suddenly, you start noticing holes everywhere in the business, and things could tank as a result. And that’s not a healthy environment.

In case you haven’t heard, we have a national champion among us, and you can stop by nearly any time to see for yourself why she made it to the top of her game in such a short time.

Article by Don Seaman

If you’re of a certain age, you may have had a specific, irrational fear of something that really wasn’t a big threat.

Who knew that they served sour grapes at wrestling events?

Article by Don Seaman

Nestled within the walls of local legend Seven Scoops beats a new heart of lightness. It’s called “I’m Possible”, a new breakfast café that might make you rethink why breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

Like a new sapling found green and growing amid the ruins of a devastating forest fire, there’s one thing that symbolized new growth after the nightmare of our social shutdown a few years ago.

There’s something peculiar about the town of Wayne. We all know what it is. It’s a town without a downtown. Without a magnet to draw people in, Wayne needs more de facto areas and events to come together and feel connected, whether that’s at the Community Center, Jack’s Super Foodtown, Trader Joe’s, fireworks night, or Wayne Day.