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America's Next Top Model comes to East Lansing
High heels of every conceivable variety pointed down at the sidewalk outside an empty storefront in Lansing’s Eastwood Towne Center.
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Food cart provides fast food alternative
Last week, Brennan Woods had a meal unlike anything he ever has had before — hand-squeezed sage lemonade, a burger made with tall grass beef, caramelized red onions, balsamic vinegar, organic greens, fontina cheese on foccacia bread — and he got it from a trailer. Woods, an MSU alumnus, first heard about Trailer Park’d “Slow” Fast Food, a nomadic local food trailer based in Lansing, from friends and was encouraged to try it. “It was pretty packed when I went there — there was a long line,” he said.
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(SCENE) Metrospace to open social media exhibit
On Friday, an exhibit chronicling the effects of social networking in today’s society will begin its run at (SCENE) Metrospace, 110 Charles St. The exhibition, titled “Unfriended,” will be open through August 21 and features ten artists from both local and national scenes.
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Northern Transformation Corporation discusses future of northeastern Michigan
More than 40 affiliates of various departments and organizations in Michigan met on Wednesday at the Northern Transformation Corporation directional meeting in East Lansing.
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Bailey Community Association hosts 37th ice cream social
Children, ukulele players and a clown came together in East Lansing Wednesday evening to participate in the 37th annual Bailey Neighborhood Ice Cream Social Wednesday at the Orchard Street Pump House, 368 Orchard St. The event is sponsored by the Bailey Community Association and the Orchard Street Pump House board.
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Lansing doctors plan new cancer center
A group of Lansing area doctors are planning to build a facility geared to offer new options for cancer patients in the area. The affiliated physicians and businesses — collectively named Compass Health Care — are amid securing approval to open an outpatient cancer treatment center and will be ready to serve patients by late 2012 or early 2013, said Joe Wald, a spokesman for the physicians and an instructor in the MSU College of Communication Arts and Sciences.
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Residents, students find ways to celebrate Independence Day
Classes were not in session, there was no firework show and the streets were empty. But despite the ghost town-like appearance, the students and residents who remained in East Lansing to celebrate Independence Day found ways to make the holiday as festive as possible.
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Program provides bikes to E.L. residents
For the past four years, Dick Janson has enabled East Lansing residents to have jobs and children to build relationships — just by giving them a bike.
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Play in the Park series to begin Tuesday
Tuesday marks the summer’s first occurrence of East Lansing’s Play in the Park series, a weekly event that runs through the month of July. The sessions will occur every Tuesday at 7 p.m.
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Pump House to host ice cream social
The 37th annual Bailey Ice Cream Social will take place Wednesday 5:30-8 p.m.
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Farmers' market begins Sunday
The East Lansing Farmers’ Market will kick off its summer season this weekend, bringing together vendors and patrons from the Lansing area for farm-grown food. The market, entering its third year, will offer a variety of Michigan-grown produce and products every Sunday.
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Parent company of local book stores declares bankruptcy
The parent company of three East Lansing textbook stores filed for bankruptcy this week, while insisting all locations — including those servicing MSU students — will remain open despite their financial struggles. Nebraska Book Co., which owns the Spartan Bookstore in the International Center on campus, Ned’s Book Store, 135 E.
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East Lansing offers wide variety of summer fitness opportunities
For students living in East Lansing, the summer can be a time to exercise more than their minds. The variety of summer activities and promotions found on campus and around East Lansing make being physically fit highly obtainable.
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Kellogg Center to receive face-lift
The university’s Kellogg Center is slated to receive a face-lift if construction proceeds as expected this August. Work at the hotel and conference center — approved at the Board of Trustees’ June 17 meeting — is slated to cost about $2.24 million, university officials said. The hotel’s conference rooms will be the prime focus of several of the renovations, university engineer Bob Nestle said. The building’s corridor spaces, ceiling, lighting and wall finishes also will be redone, Nestle said. “It’s mostly aesthetic-type work,” he said. Nestle said much of the work will be completed in phases to coordinate with the center’s busy conference and meeting schedule. Construction on the facility’s meeting rooms — the majority of which is expected to be completed by August 2012 — will be handled by the Physical Plant, Nestle said. As the center is prepared for that work, some of Kellogg’s dining areas already are undergoing renovations.
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Council authorizes building of downtown high-rises
The East Lansing city council authorized the construction of the first building in a high-rise development project that will carve a new shape in the city’s skyline.
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Senator: Michigan not likely to follow in New York's footsteps in gay marriage
The streets of the Big Apple were lit up with images of the rainbow flag this past weekend as New Yorkers celebrated the legalization of same-sex marriage. The northeastern state is the sixth, but largest, state to pass the law. Shortly after being approved in the state Senate by a vote of 33-29 late Friday night, the news was announced and quickly became the trending topic of Twitter feeds. Comparative cultures and politics senior Sean Watkins was making his way into Manhattan when he heard the news, but it wasn’t long before he joined the celebration. “I was really happy for it,” he said.
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East Lansing in running for small business grant
East Lansing currently is in the running to receive a $50,000 grant to support its small businesses. Intuit will give out a total of $100,000 to the top two cities in its Love a Local Business program next month.
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Council set to approve downtown project
The East Lansing City Council is slated to make a significant stride in a pair of development projects that will add to the downtown skyline. The council is set to approve the first of two mixed-use development agreements that would authorize construction of an eight-story, mixed-use building near the Ann Street Plaza, on the corner of Grove Street and Albert Avenue.
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Local police, fire departments battle for blood
In the next few weeks, local police and firefighters are hoping to see as much blood as possible. During the 11th Annual Battle of the Badges, local police and fire departments compete against one another to have the most donors give blood to the American Red Cross in their name.
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Police ready for U2 concert
For the first time in more than a decade, Spartan Stadium will be hosting a concert event, leading many local police to stress the differences between this event and a typical football Saturday. This Sunday, U2 will be making their long-anticipated trip to East Lansing to perform, and MSU police Sgt.