Although Black Friday sales brought hoards of shoppers to some malls and department stores across the nation, businesses in downtown East Lansing did not fare as well. MSU students, a large demographic of business in the area, were gone for the Thanksgiving holiday for most of the weekend, said Joe Bell, co-owner of The Peanut Barrel, 521 E.
Claud Risner’s Thanksgiving included a nearly 30-pound turkey, 20 pounds of mashed potatoes, eight pies, about a dozen friends and family members — and 10 MSU international students.
Crime in East Lansing remained low while most students left the city for Thanksgiving break, East Lansing police Capt.
East Lansing City Hall, 410 Abbot Road, and all local post offices will be closed Thursday for Thanksgiving. East Lansing’s 54-B District Court, located in City Hall and Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, will be closed for the holiday Thursday and Friday.
Preparing a Thanksgiving meal for 12 people costs between 70 cents and $1.38, Consumers Energy calculated. The company provides natural gas and electricity to the East Lansing area.
The city of East Lansing now is accepting applications for the Community Development Block Grant, or CDBG, and the General Fund Human Service Activities budget.
In a local episcopal church, students and community members listened to readings from religious holy books, including the Torah, the Bhagavad Gita and the Quran. Despite religious differences, people from many faiths celebrated Thanksgiving together on Monday evening at All Saints Episcopal Church, 800 Abbot Road.
After seven years in East Lansing, OZ Gallery and Hand-Blown Glass, 551 E. Grand River Ave., is moving to Lansing to expand its Pizza Pi restaurant.
MSU could see an influx of students from the Lansing area with the help of a new high school scholarship program. Lansing’s plan to develop a scholarship program — the Lansing Promise Zone Scholarship — was approved by the Michigan Department of Treasury on Oct.
Campus Barbers Inc., 612 E. Grand River Ave., has been in East Lansing for more than 40 years, and is the only shop of its kind in the city.
Michigan agriculture will see new muscle in Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., who announced Friday she will chair the U.S.
The Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, will offer a free shuttle for students on Friday to the annual Silver Bells in the City in downtown Lansing. The shuttle will leave from the Ann Street Plaza on the corner of Ann and Charles streets, beginning at 5 p.m.
“Big Buck’s Marinated Pineapple in Southern Comfort” is part of tailgate tradition for Len Bokuniewicz.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Michigan, is poised to take the leadership of the U.S. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee in the next term, giving her the top position to help Michigan farmers.
Nearly two weeks after Michigan banned Four Loko and other alcoholic energy drinks, the federal government is looking to do the same. The U.S.
Grebner said although there is more he wants to do for the county, he can no longer afford to work for such little pay.
On Monday night, close to 30 students gathered to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital by addressing letters to friends and family asking for contributions.
The Westboro Baptist Church, notorious for picketing military funerals, will picket outside of East Lansing High School on Thursday. The church selected the school as a picket location because of e-mails the church received from the students regarding its picketing of soldier’s funerals, said Shirley Phelps-Roper, a member of and attorney for the Westboro Baptist Church. The picketers plan to go to the school at 2:50 p.m.
MSU officials recently discovered environmental cleanup of the former Michigan State Police headquarters will cost nearly $4.2 million, and who will foot the bill still is up for debate.
Michigan could see greener farms and rural areas following a grant recently received by MSU to help identify inefficiencies. MSU will receive $100,000 from the U.S.