Summer flea market looking for vendors The East Lansing Spring Flea Market is open from noon to 4 p.m., Sunday on the corner of Albert Avenue and Charles Street, east of the Marriott East Lansing University Place, 300 M.A.C.
Lansing - By simulating House and Senate sessions, high school students voiced their opinions about issues facing Michigan legislators in the 53rd annual Michigan Youth in Government Conference. Twice each spring, more than 700 students from 130 high schools around the state converge on the state Capitol in this YMCA-sponsored program.
Lansing - Sharon Banks’ eyes welled up with tears as $100,000 was donated to the Helping Other People Excel Scholarship Program. “I was a HOPE scholar without the name and it’s rough when you don’t know if it’s possible,” said the Lansing superintendent at a campaign kick-off on Thursday.
MSU police Officer Khalil Wasson arrived at Yakeley Hall at 5 a.m. Thursday morning in uniform - his apron and chef’s hat. “People wondered how I stayed clean working back there,” he said while cooking on two long charcoal grills outside the residence hall.
Renee Thelen inserted the suction tube into the neck of José’s lifeless body in front of a crowd of people Wednesday afternoon.“It’s almost like an unconscious patient,” the nursing junior said about the mannequin she was demonstrating on in the new Janice Thompson Granger Nursing Learning Center.
A policy bill was approved Wednesday by the Residence Halls Association that outlines procedures for the removal of executive board members, taking action on an issue an earlier-formed ethics committee could not.The policy gives the association’s president and internal and external vice presidents the power to remove executives from their office in cases of gross negligence.The bill followed the formation of an ethics committee Feb.
Outdoor sports enthusiasts will be asking the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to fish into their pockets. A $1 fee increase was accidentally charged to 5,000 fishing and turkey license holders. The extra fee has DNR Director K.
Chocolate rabbits may not have been an Easter sellout, but retailers are expecting sales to pick up. Three out of every four Michigan retailers are projecting increased sales for April and June. Retailers are remaining positive, though March profits were not as high as expected, said Larry Meyer, president of the Michigan Retailers Association.
Concern that Michigan’s kids are overly medicated and conflicting reports of Ritalin as a positive or negative treatment for Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder have caused lawmakers to take a closer look at patterns in Michigan schools.“It was brought to our attention that there has been a dramatic increase in use among children in the past 15 years,” said Dale Hull, spokesman for Rep.
Okemos - A group of about 10 students was asked to leave Meridian Mall on Wednesday for passing out fliers and talking to Abercrombie & Fitch officials about T-shirts they say reinforce racial and ethnic stereotypes.
Lansing - Clifton Powers clenched his jaw as he remembered his brother’s murder in July 1999.“He was killed in his business,” the advertising junior said.
About 300 rocks were dumped on MSU President M. Peter McPherson’s office floor Wednesday, each representing one student who supports the Graduate Employees Union.The rocks were signed by undergraduates and collected by Students for Economic Justice and Direct Action.
Planned road construction on Valley Court in May could damage businesses that depend on the parking.Valley Court will be closed all summer, leaving customers at Crunchy’s without a place to park, said Dave Milligan, the establishment’s owner.“That is where most of our parking is and our (customers) won’t even be able to get to our parking lot,” he said.The construction will take place directly behind the restaurant, 254 W.
East Lansing School Board members expect Spartan Village Elementary School to close this fall.School board member Barbara McMillan said she suspects the school, located at 1460 Middlevale Road, will close due to budget cuts.Children attending the elementary will be displaced to other schools in the district,The administration delivered 72 recommendations last night to the board to help cut the budget by $3.5 million.Already, 108 part- and full-time employees have been laid off from the East Lansing School District.Spartan Village resident and Lansing Community College student Tendisai Mazhangara was at the elementary school Thursday evening to enroll her 4-year-old daughter for kindergarten, but the school was closed.Mazhangara said she heard about a month ago that the school’s closing was likely.“That would be terrible,” she said.But the board has not yet taken official action on the school’s closing, McMillan said.It is expected to pass the budget by June 10.“Monday we have a public forum and we won’t make any decisions,” McMillan said.Enrollment in the school has dropped from 400 students to just 90 resident students within the past few years, school district Superintendent Tom Giblin said.The rest of the school’s population is made up of school-of-choice students.“Spartan Village is a very special school but we are backed in the corner with a lot of issues,” he said.
ASMSU Academic Assembly’s internal leadership position was elected Tuesday among six candidates after the election was postponed last week with only two candidates running.
With pagers connected to their hips, two newly elected ASMSU’s leaders said they want to be more connected to the student body.This month, Matt Clayson and Matt Weingarden were elected chairpeople of the undergraduate student government.Clayson, ASMSU Academic Assembly chairperson, was elected as chairperson for the second year in a row.“I’ve learned how incredibly tedious it is to make change in this organization,” he said.
A bill that passed the state House addresses having new teachers - about 5,000 per year - to be CPR-certified. State Rep.
The Capital Area Health Alliance is having the fifth in a series of presentations that will help inform and enlighten the Lansing-area community about health care issues.
If a state Senate bill becomes law, minors will be more easily identified by their Michigan driver’s license or ID card. This bill, introduced by Sen.