A new East Lansing-based company, Campus Street Sportswear, has purchased two former Steve & Barry’s locations — one of them in East Lansing — and plans to open retail businesses in the near future.
A new college tuition funding plan enacted Tuesday could make secondary education significantly more affordable for Michigan students from low-income areas. Legislation signed into law by Gov. Jennifer Granholm will allow up to 10 communities to create “Promise Zones,” where funds can be collected from private donors and state education tax breaks to pay for graduating students’ college tuition.
In a world of pizza places using premade crusts and frozen ingredients, one newcomer to East Lansing is turning to freshness to set itself apart. Marco’s Pizza, 3498 Lake Lansing Road, prides itself on quality ingredients.
During the holiday season, evergreens symbolized joy and the spirit of giving, but now, in East Lansing, they symbolize wood chips. Sanitation workers spent the past two Mondays collecting Christmas trees from curbs and chipping them to mulch in an effort to recycle and ease landscaping costs. The mulch from the discarded trees will be spread in local parks this summer.
A plethora of pizza joints already maintain a steady hold on East Lansing, especially along Grand River Avenue. That means restaurants need more than just good food to set themselves apart.
In commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the MSU Jazz Orchestra I, Vocal Jazz Ensemble I and Voices of Total Praise will present concerts at Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre.
Potter Park Zoo, 1301 S. Pennsylvania Ave., in Lansing, has announced plans to expand its popular eastern black rhino exhibit. The proposed renovation will expand the indoor rhino facility and feature two enlarged outdoor habitats to create a more natural environment.
The Lansing Center, 333 E. Michigan Ave., in Lansing, will host the 11th annual Lansing Boat Show on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The Amtrak station in East Lansing was a busy place to be at 8:21 p.m. Sunday, the day before classes resumed for the spring semester.
The Old Navy apparel store in the Lansing Mall, 5330 W. Saginaw Highway, will close Jan. 26 after opting not to renew its lease this year, a store associate said.
MSU Federal Credit Union is seeking candidates to fill vacancies left in its board of directors.
The East Lansing Police Department remains in mourning after former cadet and officer Mason Samborski was killed in the line of duty Dec. 28 while investigating a traffic stop in Detroit.
Witnesses gave descriptions of how MSU student Katherine Brown, her boyfriend and members of her boyfriend’s family were killed during a preliminary hearing Thursday for the man accused of their murder, police said.
Because most East Lansing residents are MSU students, businesses often cater to them. But with their best customers leaving during winter break, many businesses are scaling back operations or relying on full-time residents.
Students planning to camp out in front of Toppers Pizza, 1219 E. Grand River Ave., to get free food should anticipate an additional two weeks’ wait. The pizza chain is postponing its originally scheduled opening date from Saturday to Dec. 20 after hiring and financing issues caused delays.
The masses of students biking around campus aren’t the only people in the state utilizing this form of transportation, since Michigan was recently named the 12th most bicycle-friendly state in the nation. The ranking came from a survey conducted by the League of American Bicyclists.
Leaders in the Lansing area urged the Michigan Legislature on Wednesday to pass transportation funding and reforms proposed Nov. 5 by the Transportation Funding Task Force.
Religious documents written more than 500 years ago can soon be found in an MSU digital archive. MSU’s Writing in Digital Environments, or WIDE, research center will use a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to digitize 20 pages from two of the three MSU-owned Israelites Samaritan Pentateuchs, which were written in Egypt and Syria.
Lou & Harry’s Greek Grill, 1139 E Grand River Ave., closed Tuesday, while Lou & Harry’s Five Star Deli, 245 Ann St., will remain open. Owner Harry Saites said the Ann Street restaurant can handle all the student business.
Change. It’s what President-elect Barack Obama promised during his run for the White House. But naming Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., as his secretary of state and the consideration of several people with ties to former President Bill Clinton’s administration for Cabinet positions has some political analysts wondering whether change is possible with so many old faces.