Wayland Town Crier 4/17/13: Wayland runner recalls horrific site at finish line. Local residents described harrowing experiences near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday as two bombs exploded seconds apart in Copley Square just before 3 p.m.

Wayland Patch 4/17/13:  A Kiss at Mile 6, Horror at the Finish Line, Hope in the Aftermath. “It was going to be a picture-perfect marathon,” Alexis Avila remembers. But then, of course, it wasn’t. Avila, a Wayland resident, recalls that Monday had all the makings of a perfect Boston Marathon day. There was a nice breeze, the temperature wasn’t oppressive like it was for his first Boston Marathon in 2012, and he was bursting with confidence.