Wayland Town Crier 8/14/18: Business group in Wayland closes its doors after 37 years. A generational divide is one reason why a business group has shut its doors for good. The Wayland Business Association, after 37 years in existence, and billed on its website as “part of the fiber of the town,” disbanded at the end of June. “We couldn’t offer what people needed,” Linda Thalheimer, president of the association at the time of the closure, told the Daily News.