After realizing most of his mail was junk mail, Ferndale resident Tim Pfannes knew there had to be a way to take himself off mailing lists. Soon after, Pfannes and his two brothers, Shane Pfannes and MSU alumnus Sander DeVries, began their company, 41Pounds.org.
Tuesday morning, Holly Markham arrived at the MSU Student Organic Farm, 3291 College Road, to begin harvesting produce to take with her to the MSU Agricultural Equipment Exposition, or Ag Expo. For the first year since its inception, people attending the Ag Expo could buy a snack that was not prepared by MSU Concessions.
I was shocked to hear Mark Meadows' claim that he will work to protect our environment. I have lived adjacent to the wetlands at the corner of Abbott and Lake Lansing roads for 25 years.
It must be the summer of the super group. In May, hip-hop fans were taken to "St. Elsewhere" by powerhouse duo Gnarls Barkley.
Tractor competitions, ice cream sampling and a petting zoo are just a few things the MSU Agricultural Equipment Exposition, or Ag Expo, will offer this week. This summer will mark the 27th year MSU has hosted the event, said Laura Probyn, spokeswoman for the Ag Expo. The expo begins today and continues until Thursday, and is sponsored by the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, opens at 9 a.m.
"Honestly, we have our own problems to deal with. We've already gotten involved in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A few parks throughout East Lansing could be getting spruced up thanks to funding from a Cool Cities grant and a private donation. The park on the corner of Albert Avenue and Abbott Road will receive a fountain and a new fence.
Imagine a cure for spinal cord injuries. In 1995, Christopher Reeve, the man who popularized "Superman," fell from a horse and broke his neck.
Rare Combination, an Irish/Celtic group, will be giving a free performance at 7 p.m. Friday at Lake Lansing Park-South, located at the corner of Pike Street and Marsh Road in Haslett. The concert will be held at the Lake Lansing Community Bandshell.
(Sigh) … ahhh, "Little Man." If you were to put together a list of the worst ideas for a movie in the past two decades, green-lighting a project with Marlon Wayans' face transposed on baby-like bodies might rank pretty high.
Let's recognize that we have it good here in the land of the free. We wear fancy, expensive clothes made in factories by people working for almost nothing a day.
Daniel Piedra's letter "United States supports Israel with good reason," (SN 7/17), is a reasonable defense of Israel's actions against Hezbollah except for his opinion of Islam as a whole.
David Wishinsky seems to think that Gov. Jennifer Granholm's economic plan for Michigan is working, based on his letter, "DeVos may have political tool, but it doesn't work," (SN 7/17). If this is the case, why do we have 6 percent unemployment while the nationwide average is 4.6 percent?
Placekicker John Goss will not return to the MSU football roster this fall. Goss recently graduated with a bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary studies in social science and human resources.
Waleed Brinjikji took a tense taxicab ride along a bomb-riddled road in Lebanon with his mother, aunt and three younger cousins Sunday. The ride from the small town in which they were staying to Beirut cost his family $1,300 and put them under the constant threat of attack. But Brinjikji, an MSU physiology senior, said the ride, its cost and the stress it caused his family was well worth it, since it allowed them to leave the Lebanese town that was devastated by Israeli bombings in the past week. "We had to leave this place because psychologically, it was too hard to stay there any longer," Brinjikji said. Brinjikji was in Syria studying and spending time with his family when they decided to take a trip to Lebanon to visit his mother's birthplace.
Jeannette Walls, author of the book "The Glass Castle," which has been chosen for the "One Book, One Community" program, will speak at 7:30 p.m.
Michigan Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate Keith Butler will meet with the public at 8 a.m. Wednesday at Beaner's Gourmet Coffee, 6439 S.
Students will pay more for classes this fall as a result of a tuition increase set by the MSU Board of Trustees at its meeting Monday. To balance the 5.9 percent tuition increase for in-state undergraduate students and 6.9 percent increase for out-of-state undergraduate students, financial aid was expanded by 8.5 percent and the new Spartan Advantage program, which will help finance incoming freshman at or below the poverty level, was implemented. Even though MSU is seventh in the state for education costs, the university is seeking ways to expand the number of potential students, MSU President Lou Anna K.
Michigan boaters may soon have to be more aware of how much alcohol they consume. A bill that was introduced in the Michigan House of Representatives in June could drop the legal blood alcohol content, or BAC, of motorized boat drivers from 0.10 to 0.08, the same as that for automobile drivers. Sgt.