Cherry Lane Apartments and the neighboring Faculty Bricks complex will be demolished in July, university officials confirmed last week. The apartment complexes will be taken down by the E.T.
The East Lansing City Council is scheduled to discuss two redevelopment projects that will change the face of downtown East Lansing. Two mixed-use projects, both located near the Ann Street Plaza — the iconic center of downtown East Lansing — will commence this summer if all goes as planned, Mayor Vic Loomis said. The council will discuss the details of the development agreement at their work session tonight at 7 p.m.
For the first time in years, Michigan’s budget, which would include a 15 percent funding cut to state universities, among other spending decreases, likely will be approved by the state Legislature by May 31. Kurt Weiss, spokesman for the State Budget Office, said one of Gov.
Lost amid the crowds and excitement of the East Lansing Art Festival and MSU Spring Arts and Crafts Show, a more subdued event was being held in the MSU Museum.
After studying in Zambia and Sub-Saharan Africa for the past two decades, Gretchen Birbeck, director of MSU’s International Neurologic and Psychiatric Epidemiology Program, has been selected as a regional winner of the 2011 Outreach Scholarship W.K.
The first step in a $2 million plan to revamp city parking structures is set to begin early this week. Crews will begin renovating the Grove Street parking structure and repaving concrete curbs, ramps and stairwells, as well as upgrading the building’s lighting and elevator systems, Planning & Community Development Director Tim Dempsey said.
Through its many sharing instruments, the Internet has allowed all of us to be Promethean. It only takes one person with a little know-how to buy a video or some music and then distribute the entire thing across the Internet to anyone who wants it.
Public employees should start stocking up on aspirin, vitamin C and antibacterial soap because in all probability they won’t be able to afford getting sick in the future. The Michigan Senate passed a bill last week that forces public employees and teachers to pay at least 20 percent of their health care premiums, starting January of next year.
Residential College in the Arts and Humanities senior Anna Orsini understands the value of community work. Thanks to that understanding and for her efforts in the East Lansing area, with the help of the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, or RCAH, Orsini recently was named a Newman Civic Fellow by Campus Compact — an organization focused on education and community building.
MSU senior pitcher Kurt Wunderlich was named Big Ten Pitcher of the Week Monday, after throwing a complete game shutout to beat Northwestern 3-0 on Thursday.
After the implementation of a new pilot program at MSU, consumers will have access to more information about the beef they purchase at the grocery store — using their smart phone.
From speakers to musical performers, the TEDx Lansing event on Friday at Wharton Center highlighted the talents and ideas from a number of creative and inspiring people from local communities. With a theme of “Don’t get too comfortable,” the event encouraged participants to be accepting of new ideas and perceptions.
Thousands of visitors flocked to East Lansing for the 48th annual East Lansing Art Festival this weekend.
For the 47th straight year, the MSU Spring Arts and Crafts Show invaded the grounds near the Union, injecting some life into campus this past weekend.
The weather was that of a sticky summer Saturday — one of the first in East Lansing — as customers picked through outdoor sales racks at La Bodega. But it wasn’t just the actual climate looking up — the store’s business climate was that way, as well.
More than a 1,000 students, teachers and auto workers gathered outside the Capitol Saturday afternoon to protest Gov.
When junior pitcher Tony Bucciferro took the mound for the ninth inning of Friday’s game against Northwestern, he knew a complete game and the Big Ten championship were just three outs away. With a touch of swagger, Bucciferro dialed up his fastball and slider to strike out the side and deliver the first Big Ten title to the MSU baseball program since 1979. Bucciferro and senior pitcher Kurt Wunderlich threw a pair of complete games for the Spartans (34-19 overall, 15-9 Big Ten) over the weekend and capped off a strong pitching year for each of the players and for the program. “I knew it was going to happen, and I was fired-up,” Bucciferro said. “(Boss) has turned this program around.
A 30-year-old female vendor at the MSU Arts and Crafts Show reported $1,500 stolen between 2:40-2:50 p.m.
Dear President Barack Obama: I was relieved to hear Navy Seals killed the man responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The world is a safer place now that the functional head of al Qaeda cannot order the mass murder of innocent people.
Smoking is widely acknowledged as being bad for your health. But is it also bad for your wealth? If you want to work in medicine, it might be. A new policy at Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital requires that prospective employees have to be nicotine-free. At first glance, it’s an example of a hospital practicing what it preaches: health.