The annual Silver Bells in the City celebration brought thousands of people to downtown Lansing on Friday with a parade and a Christmas tree lighting, ushering in the holiday season. The event, which has been a tradition since 1985, features a parade with floats from local businesses and organizations, as well as well as 11 high school marching bands.
About 4,000 pounds of imported snow blanketed the field behind The Rock on Friday, enabling members of the Spartan Ski Club and the Alpine Ski and Snowboard Team to host a snowboarding competition in the middle of campus. Kinesiology junior Sean Storey, the president of the MSU Alpine Ski and Snowboard Team, said members of both groups helped shovel the snow onto a large metal snowboarding ramp complete with jumps and rails the night before, working for nearly eight hours in preparation for the competition, called a Rail Jam.
Starting in 2016, new motorcoaches will be required to have seat belts, according to a statement from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Officials said shoulder and lap belts would help reduce the risk of death or injury in a head-on collision and also reduce the risk of occupant ejection from the vehicle in rollover accidents.
East Lansing has high marks in LGBT equality, according to a national advocacy group. Human Rights Campaign, widely regarded as a premier advocacy group for LGBT rights and equality, released a report measuring LGBT equality in the U.S. and scored cities for factors such as non-discrimination in city employment.
Success after graduation is all any recent college graduate could hope for. After getting her advertising degree in 2012, MSU alumna Megan Barry found just that with Leahy-IFP Space Saver juices, teas and lemonades. In Beverage Industry magazine’s Top Beverage Package of 2013 competition, which will debut in the December issue, Barry’s design placed third, with 17 percent of the 1,489 online votes rounding out the top five contestants.
More than two weeks after the “East Lansing City Council was elected, former Mayor Pro Tem Nathan Triplett took over as mayor after new council members were sworn in Wednesday night.
Memories of a tragic winter night made Caiti Berry’s pledge not to drink and drive an easy choice. Berry, a criminal justice senior and a member of Spartans Against Drunk Driving, said she learned the true effects of driving drunk when one of her close friends was killed in an accident involving alcohol.
The Breslin Center is known for its various traditions regarding MSU basketball. From the Izzone jumping whenever the Spartans are on defense to popping paper bags after the team’s first field goal, these traditions have become a part of experiencing a game at the Breslin Center. One of those traditions has officially been discontinued.
The appointment of East Lansing’s new mayor and the swearing-in of councilmember-elects Kathleen Boyle, Susan Woodsmk and Ruth Beier will be at 6:30 p.m.
Swedish clothing retailer H&M will be a part of the Meridian Mall, taking the space currently occupied by Abercrombie and Fitch, according to Meridian Township Community Planning Development director Mark Kieselbach. H&M filled out a redevelopment permit that recently was approved by Meridian Township. Kieselbach said the timeline of the project redevelopment is up to the mall and has not yet been announced.
For weeks leading up to Tuesday, social media was peppered with pleas to vote on a website which promised an advance screening of the movie “Hunger Games: Catching Fire” to the college with the most votes. The website was cryptic and provided little information about the contest’s organizer, Cross Culture Marketing Group; yet MSU students appear to have flocked in droves to the poll, winning the contest by more than 4,500 votes.
The East Lansing woman believed to be missing has contacted her family and assured them of her safety.
At his State of the State address in January, Gov. Rick Snyder called for a $1.2 billion increase in funding to repair and maintain Michigan’s roads. But after a meeting last week between Snyder and legislative leaders, that goal seems no closer to completion than the day it was proposed. According to a Michigan Department of Transportation report released in May, the conditions of Michigan’s roadways will begin to decline without a significant increase in funding. To measure the condition of Michigan roads, the state surveys the roads and rates their condition on a scale of “good,” fair” and “poor.” According to data from the Transportation Asset Management Council collected between 2011 and 2012, 13.77 percent of roads in East Lansing are classified in good condition, 57.46 percent are in fair condition and 28.77 percent are in poor condition.
During his interrogation, the man accused of committing a series of sexual assaults in East Lansing earlier this year adamantly denied any involvement in any of the attacks before eventually confessing.
Spartan fans in their respective football, basketball and hockey student section seats will no longer be seeing individuals from outside of MSU filling the bleachers around them. Recent attention toward the revamped student section ticket policy, which allows student section ticket holders to transfer their tickets to the ID cards of other students without a fee, will make it much harder for non-students to attend games in student-specific seats.
One of East Lansing’s largest downtown business spaces is officially filled once again as Jackson National Life Insurance Co. opened its doors for business Monday, redesigning and taking over the former Barnes and Noble location at 333 E. Grand River Ave.
A severe storm whipped through East Lansing on Sunday night, causing damage and power outages for students, residents and officials. The storm started at about 5 p.m. and continued with high winds throughout Sunday night and into Monday.
Swedish clothing store H&M is slated to come to the Meridian Mall in Okemos, according to a Lansing State Journal article.
Upon arriving at Lansing’s CD and Record Show, Andrew Moore had no intention of leaving empty-handed. Saturday’s free show was the fifth time the MSU College of Law clinician has filtered through the tables of CDs and vinyls throughout the years, and for him the adventure never gets old. His choices for the day included Frank Zappa, Led Zeppelin and David Bowie.
A mother of three is considered a missing person after fleeing from a home in East Lansing Saturday night, according to the East Lansing Police Department. Sarah Jane Jackson, 23, reportedly left a home on Chartwell Dual Carriage Way Saturday at about 9 p.m. with the father of two of her three children, according to a statement from police.