The East Lansing City Council’s agenda for its meeting Tuesday includes the approval of the city’s proposed $64.7 million budget and a public hearing about City Center II. The meeting is scheduled to be held at 7:30 p.m.
As of 2 p.m. today, southbound traffic on Abbot/Chandler Road, between Lake Lansing and Coleman roads, will be shifted to the construction project’s newly paved east lane, which has been closed since January.
The East Lansing Police Department is currently investigating four unarmed robberies that occurred last night between 11 p.m. and midnight.
East Lansing police Capt. Kim Johnson, who is being considered for chief of the Kalamazoo Public Safety Department, spoke at a public forum with the two other final candidates Wednesday at the City Hall Commission Chambers in Kalamazoo.
Sometimes it’s hard for Janet Richards to remember that her active son, 6-year-old Jacob Richards, was diagnosed with asthma when he was only 1. After raising a total of $615, Janet Richards and her son were among the 100 registered participants at the American Lung Association of Michigan’s 9th annual Blow the Whistle on Asthma walk Saturday.
Keg? Check. Music? Check. Tell the police about the party? Check. Party registration is a formality that has been used by the East Lansing Police Department for nearly a decade, East Lansing police Capt.
A contract between Delta Township’s auto workers union and General Motors Corporation was ratified by the union members Friday, ending the month-long strike of about 2,300 workers at GM’s Lansing Delta Township Assembly Plant.
The East Lansing Art Festival will cause parking and traffic to change as an expected 70,000-80,000 people will be flocking to downtown East Lansing this weekend. Albert Avenue will not be open from Charles Street to Evergreen Avenue. M.A.C. Avenue will be closed from Grand River Avenue to Albert Avenue, and Abbot Road from Grand River Avenue to Linden Street will be closed.
The East Lansing Art Festival will be taking over the streets of downtown East Lansing this weekend, and local businesses are in preparation mode. Brent Kanitz, manager of Harper’s Restaurant & Brewpub, 131 Albert Ave., said he is looking forward to the business the East Lansing Art Festival will bring because last weekend was slow after students left.
The Abbot/Chandler Road reconstruction project is ahead of schedule and should be completed no later than August, according to a city of East Lansing news bulletin released Thursday. This is ahead of schedule from the October date that was originally planned.
The Michigan Department of Transportation will be offering fewer road maintenance activities such as lawn mowing, shoulder and curb sweeping and litter pickup for the rest of the fiscal year. These cutbacks will amount to about a 20 percent decease in the department’s summer maintenance budget, according to a press release.
Clarice Thompson, a student at Bailey Elementary School in 1936, said one of her fondest memories of the school was around Christmas time when all the students would gather in the basement to sing carols. “It was exciting because the music teacher would have us sing carols and we thought we sounded great because it was echoing off the walls,” said Thompson, who attended the East Lansing school from age four until sixth grade in the years 1936 to 1942.
Some students looking for apartments for the summer or fall are being faced with a tough decision: $1,000 Visa gift cards or a dependable route home. As construction continues on Abbot/Chandler Road, some surrounding apartment complexes are offering incentives to help draw in residents in spite of the roadblocks and long detours.
Walking, biking, carpooling or even taking the bus are all ways Jessica Yorko said contribute to a cleaner planet and a healthier body. Since May 2005, Mid-MEAC has promoted a program called Smart Commute, in the hopes of assisting community members find alternative modes of transportation that will help save the planet as well as human lives.
T-shirts reading “Free Valley Court Park” set the tone for the public discussion on the City Center II development during Tuesday’s East Lansing City Council work session.
The city of East Lansing’s loss may be Kalamazoo’s gain. East Lansing police Capt. Kim Johnson, who is being considered for chief of the Kalamazoo Public Safety Department, will speak at a public forum with the two other final candidates at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the City Hall Commission Chambers in Kalamazoo. Other candidates include David Headings, the current Battle Creek chief of police, and Jeffrey Hadley of the Fort Wayne Police Department in Indiana.
A new Click It or Ticket advertising campaign is now in effect advising Michigan motorists of upcoming statewide safety belt enforcements, according to a Michigan State Police press release. The two-week campaign serves to remind people of the annual Memorial Day safety belt enforcement, beginning May 19 and ending June 1.
U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., filed for reelection to the U.S. Senate on Monday. If reelected, it would be Levin’s sixth term in office. Running in opposition of Levin will be Republican State Rep. Jack Hoogendyk, who also filed his nominating petition Monday, according to news releases.
East Lansing City Council members will discuss the $117 million City Center II project for the first time formally since April during a work session Tuesday. The work session is set for 7 p.m. at 54-B District Court, Courtroom 2, 101 Linden St. East Lansing City Manager Ted Staton said the council will discuss slight modifications made to the project, like moving the townhouses away from Valley Court Park. Staton said the session was moved to a larger room in anticipation of public turnout due to the issue’s controversial nature among East Lansing residents. The mixed-use project, which includes a 10-story building, would span from Abbot Road to Valley Court Park along Grand River Avenue, and would combine apartments and townhouses with office and retail space.
MSU students aren’t the only ones zipping around East Lansing on their scooters as temperatures and gas prices in East Lansing climb – there also has been an increase in scooter sales as middle-aged residents begin trading in their four wheels for two. Bruce Uhal, an MSU physiology professor, said he recently purchased a scooter from Campus Scooter, 412 Albert Ave., because of the money he saves on gasoline, not to mention the free and easy parking on campus. “It really makes the most sense right now,” Uhal said.