The ballots have been ordered and the city of Lansing is preparing for another election season. City Clerk Debbie Miner said the city is ready to handle the voter turnout, even if it is greater than the city has projected. "It is going to work out very well," Miner said.
Before Tetyana Synovyat launched herself 100 feet into the air at the Cole Bros. Circus on Tuesday, she stiffened her muscles and pressed her legs flat against the cannon's floor. The petite projectile's legs were locked, arms were tight and mind was focused. After a deafening boom from the human cannonball launcher, she detangled herself from the safety net and was again backstage, prepping for a motorcycle tightrope stunt later in the show. "You feel like you fly," the 9-year Cole Bros.
The League of Women Voters of the Lansing area is holding a forum for the two candidates for Lansing mayor.
With the push of a button, Lansing-area emergency vehicles can clear traffic by switching a stoplight from red to green. The Lansing Regional Emergency Vehicle Pre-emption System Project, which will be finished next year, works by sending a signal from a strobe light mounted on an emergency vehicle to a sensor placed on a traffic light.
Cingular Wireless and T-Mobile customers could notice an increase in their wireless signal if the East Lansing City Council votes Tuesday evening to construct cell phone towers on East Grand River Avenue and Trowbridge Road.
A Lansing woman who has run for several political offices was featured on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" last week because of her gender experiences. Melissa Sue Robinson, who is transgender and was born male, said she was asked to take part in a special segment on identical twins who have sex changes by a producer of the show. "Somehow they found out about me," she said.
As East Lansing Fire Marshal Bob Pratt drove on Sunday down a residential street in Bogalusa, La., a city that Hurricane Katrina devastated with high winds, he tallied the damaged houses. "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight; eight out of 10 houses on a random block have tarps on roofs," Pratt said on his cell phone, as he sat by his partner, East Lansing Firefighter-Paramedic Dawn Carson.
Dog owners are invited to attend a moonlit walk through the woods at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 14 at the Harris Nature Center, 3998 Van Atta Road.
Muskegon resident Dave Johnson looks on during a memorial speech for veterans of all wars classified as missing in action or prisoners of war at the seventh annual Michigan Remembers Run on Saturday. Johnson, a veteran of the U.S.
A celebration will take place at 8 p.m. on Oct. 8 to honor the 35th anniversary of the Lansing Area Peace Education Center, 855 Grove St.
The heavy aroma of ethnic foods could be smelled throughout the Islamic Center of East Lansing, as approximately 300 shoeless people attended "Inside Islam: A Cultural Fair" on Sunday.
Members of a pro-life group, MSU Students for Life, will work to voice protest to an abortion ban that was struck down last week in Michigan. "We are trying to educate our members so they can have more knowledgeable discussions with people who may not know that much about it," said Ken Curell, the president of Students for Life and international relations junior. The Legal Birth Definition Act, passed by the Michigan Legislature in June 2004, was declared unconstitutional by U.S.
As MSU police see it - two wheels are better than four. And they're putting that policy into practice during home football games for the first time this year during home football games with the MSU bike police on patrol "They're able to get into places our vehicles can't," MSU police Sgt.
Just like when Garfield the Cat tried to mail Nermal to Abu Dhabi, East Lansing officials are trying to eradicate a city wide cat problem. The city's feral and "free-roaming" cat populations are steadily on the rise because of food left outside to feed the feline floaters. Jamie McAloon-Lampman, Ingham County's Animal Control director said the cars are a problem. "Feral is a cat that's never been held by a human being.
The Beaner's Gourmet Coffee location in the Union closed before school started and remains closed after the franchise owner developed "a very serious personal issue," said Union Director Jim Sheppard.
Local bars are on the look-out for out-of-state IDs, especially after receiving information listing the number of MSU students that are actually from outside of Michigan. The Responsible Hospitality Council has created a list of the top ten out-of-state pieces of identification bar employees have noticed and passed it around to all the council's members. "We want to make all the establishments aware that if you see an out-of-state ID, there's a good chance it's fake," said Joe Goodsir, president of Rick's American Cafe, 224 Abbott Road, and director of the executive committee on the council. Goodsir said that there are 1,094 MSU students from other states that could be 21, and he said he also knows the breakdown of how many students are from each state. "If you're working and you see eight IDs from Arizona, there's only seven that are possibly from MSU," Goodsir said.
An East Lansing store offering a variety of organic produce has expanded its products to include more than just pesticide-free vegetables. The East Lansing Food Co-Operative, 4960 Northwind Drive, will now carry bread, cheese, pastries, cookies and black magic brownies, which all come from an Ann Arbor deli.
A new study being conducted at Purdue University shows that people who listen to loud music on headphones might be damaging their hearing. Robert Novak, director of clinical education in audiology at Purdue University said they are researching the sound levels produced by iPod and MP3 music players at their clinic. "We are seeing young people that have a head start on the hearing aging process," Novak said.
A graveside tour known as "Ghostwalk 2005" will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday at the Mount Hope Cemetery in Lansing.
East Lansing Fire Marshal Bob Pratt and firefighter-paramedic Dawn Carson drove nearly eight hours on Tuesday to Baton Rouge, La.