Lansing - Seven of the previous nine games between Lansing and Fort Wayne were decided by one run, but Wednesday night was a whole new experience. The Lugnuts (11-9 second half, 48-41 overall) lost 8-3 to the Wizards (8-12, 47-40) at Oldsmobile Park, 505 E.
A former pastor at East Lansing’s University Lutheran Church hopes to wheel his way into the Guinness Book of World Records by unicycling from Washington to the Statue of Liberty.His trip, “One Wheel, Many Spokes,” began on April 29 and he is scheduled to arrive at the Statue of Liberty at August 10.
One drowning and another near drowning in the span of three days is more than enough turn the heads of area residents and park commissioners - and rightfully it has. An 11-year-old boy drowned Saturday at the Grand River’s Bunker Road Landing, and Mohammad Sohaib Fida, 13, nearly drowned July 4 at Lake Lansing Park South.
Blah blah blah, the Pledge of Allegiance and so forth. I’m sure every other columnist over the last couple of weeks has more than addressed every possible viewpoint that you’d care to read, so I’m going to bring up something just as insightful.
Balancing two jobs has not been easy for the mayor of East Lansing, consequently, Mark Meadows will now be trying to hitting the golf course more often.Of course, there is still a city to run.Meadows retired from his post as a Michigan assistant attorney general June 26, but he will continue to run East Lansing and work on some final cases with the attorney general’s office.
East Lansing fire officials believe the fire that burnt down the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 431 E.
The Museum of New Art in downtown Detroit will open its “Ground Zero” exhibit Saturday and will host an “interrogation” of artist Rozalinda Borcila at 3 p.m.
The 73rd annual Major League Baseball All-Star game and festivities were definitely a night to remember.
I don’t get stomachaches much anymore, except from the occasional “scrumptious” dorm meal, but the pain in my abdomen grew larger than a water-laden shrinky-dink when I was at Lansing’s 2002 Fourth of July parade. Now, I’m not a commie, but seeing all of the proud citizens waving their little flags and watching the parade with admiration made me sick to my stomach.
An MSU professor and her team of scientists might have developed proteins to help treat HIV positive patients, arthritis and people with respiratory problems - if they had the money. Surgery Professor Elahé Crockett-Torabi proposed a project with all three goals to the state Life Sciences Corridor leaders, who not only turned down the idea, but all of the 14 project proposals submitted from MSU.
Two bills and a proposed amendment to the state constitution are both work to alter Michigan’s mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes. The two bills currently in the House, sponsored by Rep.
Although her birthday card from B.R.A.D. didn’t make her cancel any party plans, Katie Mellor said she learned a little bit about responsible drinking. “I looked out for some of the symptoms of alcohol poisoning,” the 2002 graduate said. Mellor seems to be in the majority of those who’ve received the birthday greetings since February 1999.
Starting this fall, East Lansing school board meetings will be broadcasted once again.The district was recently on a two year hiatus after the board meetings were determined to be too expensive for television broadcast.
Stockbridge - MSU head coach Rick Comley and Michigan head coach Red Berenson couldn’t hammer out a decision on which school would get an extra home game in their season series this year, so they reverted to a problem-solving method that would have made the East Lansing school board proud. They flipped a coin in a far-off location. The setting was the tiny village Stockbridge, which is nearly equidistant between Ann Arbor and East Lansing.
The Butterfly House closed its wings and was laid to rest in early July because of funding and spatial problems.
The Michigan 4-H Foundation named Ovid resident and MSU alumnus Terry Langston its new executive director last week. On Aug.
The hot summer days of East Lansing are about to get a little bit cooler. Cold Stone Creamery, an ice cream shop at 200 M.A.C.
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream, especially in the summer. So it fits that July is National Ice Cream Month and Sunday, July 21 is National Ice Cream Day.