On a chilly December afternoon, community members stood in the cold to help collect coats for those who might not have something warm to wrap themselves in during the holiday season and letters for soldiers who won’t be home to celebrate it.
When Lansing resident Marilyn Bria entered Munn Ice Arena on Saturday with her husband, she was anxious for MSU to light the lamp early and jump ahead of No. 20 Ferris State.
Governor-elect Rick Snyder spent nearly $11 million in his bid to win the primary and general gubernatorial elections, according to campaign finance reports filed Thursday with the Secretary of State.
Students and East Lansing residents shopping for the holiday season can pick up discounts today as stores lower prices in a local spin-off of last weekend’s Black Friday.
When Howard Ballein was first hired to work at a bookstore in 1952, he was paid 70 cents per hour. When he opened Student Book Store, or SBS in 1960, books sold for about $6 and the store was 1,800 square feet.
Getting caught while parking in a restricted lot for five minutes to turn in a paper could become a more costly infraction if a bill passed by the state House of Representatives on Thursday is signed into law.
Sarah Tarnowsky was suspicious when she returned to her East Lansing home Sunday afternoon to find the back door open.
From customized iClickers to personalized game consoles and microwaves, a local online company is offering unique possibilities.
Local tattoo parlors will face higher licensing fees and stricter health and safety inspections if a bill passed by the state House of Representatives on Tuesday becomes law.
The holidays haven’t been easy for Peggie Donelson. Donelson, a Lansing resident, suffers from a condition that often leaves her entire body in intense pain.
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.