The Lansing City Market will host an Open House on Friday and Saturday. The market offers a variety of products including seasonal produce, farm fresh chicken and eggs, cheese, smoked fish and jerky, seasonal plants and flowers, and gifts. The market will open from 10 a.m.
The East Lansing Summer Concert Series will kick off at 7:30-9 p.m. June 22 at Fountain Square on the corner of M.A.C.
MSU graduate Rick Kunzi has something to look forward to in the Big Apple. The theater graduate wrote and co-produced the rock-musical "BRUNCH," which hits the New York City stage in September 2008. "BRUNCH" is a musical about a 20-something struggling actor in New York City.
Painting nails, hitting the gyms and practicing talents will top to-do lists for some MSU students this November. The Miss Capital City Michigan pageant in the DeVille Room of The Cadillac Club, 1115 S.
Lansing — The smell of the grill and the savor of sticky barbecue from the tips of your fingers might make it easy to confuse Juneteenth with a Fourth of July celebration. But the resemblance of the two holidays go beyond children tossing baseballs and the high-pitched bells of an ice cream truck.
The suitcases of outfits and jewelry are almost unpacked, but the memories will be tucked away forever. Three MSU students returned to their hometowns Sunday after spending a week in Muskegon competing in the Miss Michigan 2007 scholarship pageant. While they won't be unpacking the winning crown, Katie Thomas, a nutritional sciences senior; Christie Charron, a political science junior; and Melissa Cousino, a psychology senior; said the week of events and competition was all worth it. "It was really great," Thomas, 20, said.
The MSU Institute for Public Policy and Social Research will host a public policy forum about the impact of Michigan's research universities' on state economic development.
MSU officials see MSU Technologies as a world-class organization, but Ian Gray, vice president for research and graduate studies, said in the past it has been understaffed relative to other universities. "It requires full-time people and real diligence," he said.
(SCENE) Metrospace, 110 Charles St., will host an evening of film and music at 4 p.m. June 30 featuring independent filmmaker Owen Lowery. Lowery, a Chicago-based filmmaker, has been working on a documentary based on the idea of a person taking a year out of typical life to fulfill all of his or her ambitions.
Consumers could receive some relief at the pump if a bill proposed in the Michigan House of Representatives is approved. The federal government levies an 18.4 cents on gas per gallon.
After one set of plans for redevelopment never came to fruition, the city is considering accepting new development proposals for Lot 1 on Albert Avenue.
Lansing — Beneath the canopy of trees shading Lansing's idyllic West Shiawassee Street, children ride bikes, and the smell of freshly cut grass lingers in the air on a warm summer evening.
The Harris Nature Center, 3998 Van Atta Road in Meridian Township, is offering family fun for the summer months. "Firefly Frenzy," a story time for preschool and elementary students, will be held at 10 a.m.
Five more properties on the 600 block of Virginia Avenue are slated to be demolished before the end of the summer,pending the approval of the city's brownfield redevelopment plan. The plan will provide $800,000 of long-term funding for the Virginia Avenue project which has a total budget of $5.2 million.
Lansing — Julia Herzog, who graduated from MSU last year, volunteers in the Lansing area, living on poverty-level wages. "The point of it is to kind of make (money) at the level of the people you're living with," said Herzog, who received her bachelor's degree in psychology and studio art.
The Lansing Juneteenth Committee is hosting a Juneteenth statewide Capitol kick-off ceremony at 5:30 p.m.
The MSU Board of Trustees will meet at 9:30 a.m. Friday on the fourth floor of the Administration Building. Items up for vote include authorization to plan Emmons Hall renovations and approval of a transition from Lyman Briggs School of Science to Lyman Briggs College. The trustees also will vote to appoint Jeffrey Riedinger as dean of International Studies and Programs, and Elizabeth Simmons as dean of Lyman Briggs College, both of which would be effective June 15.