City seeks nominees for Crystal awards
The city of East Lansing is looking for nominees for the Crystal Awards, an annual recognition given to local individuals and groups that significantly enhance the quality of life in East Lansing.
The city of East Lansing is looking for nominees for the Crystal Awards, an annual recognition given to local individuals and groups that significantly enhance the quality of life in East Lansing.
This weekend, residents will have the opportunity to celebrate Lansing’s 150th anniversary. Hats off to Lansing weekend will begin at noon Thursday outside of National City Bank, 120 N. Washington Square, in Lansing.
A more user-friendly ordinance that regulates the latest technologies in electronic signs will be discussed Tuesday at the East Lansing City Council meeting.
The final pretrial hearing for the man accused of murdering MSU student Katherine A. Brown and three others was canceled, court officials said.
Steve & Barry’s’ successor in the building at 515 E. Grand River Ave., Campus Street Sportswear, opened its doors on Saturday.
Most students have seen those e-mails from classmates begging for notes from a missed class or help with a study guide. A newly expanded Web site aims to provide another venue to help students get missed class materials.
Consumer confusion and patchy communications among emergency responders are among the downsides to last week’s announcement the transition from analog TV signals to digital will be delayed to June 12.
East Lansing City Manager Ted Staton last week began a yearlong term as president of the Michigan Local Government Management Association.
Folk singers led weekend crowds of about 1,000 people during a festival designed to celebrate the musical talents of the audience, as well as artists.
East Lansing is hosting a folk music festival this weekend that celebrates the singing talents of the audience instead of the performers. The sixth annual Mid-Winter Singing Festival starts at 8 p.m. tonight at Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road.
A new competition among Michigan universities and colleges to develop a plan to use higher education to support entrepreneurial activity in Michigan could be launched later this year.
Students looking to dump old TVs and computers before the upcoming transition to digital TV can do so on Saturday at the Ingham County Road Commission facility, 5613 S. Aurelius Road, in Lansing, as part of a recycling program.
Each time students update their Facebook.com status or send an e-mail, they could be contributing to the decline of the U.S. Postal Service, experts said.
The city of East Lansing unveiled its new Web site today, which will offer a more informative and picturesque view of the city online.
During the past two years, the East Lansing Police Department let about 1,200 outstanding arrest warrants pile up for offenses ranging from traffic violations to aggravated assault.
The first two days of February have been a winter heat wave, but last month was the coldest January in recent history. William Marino, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service station in Grand Rapids, said last month was the coldest January in 15 years and snowiest since 2005.
The nationwide outbreak of salmonella has reached Ingham County, local health officials said Friday. Laboratory tests confirmed that one of two salmonella cases reported in the county Jan. 21 is tied to a nationwide outbreak caused by tainted peanut butter products.
Flushing them or dumping them in the trash heap can lead to health hazards, but pharmaceutical disposal for students and residents has been made easier and cleaner with a new program from the Ingham County Health Department.
Students are typically the ones doling out the dollars to the university, but a class at Western Michigan University now has $500,000 of the school’s money to gamble — on the stock market, that is.
The colorful signs bearing Greek letters that line the sidewalk near Bessey Hall say it all. Spring sorority and fraternity rush week is in full swing, and plenty of MSU students are joining in the action.