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Bank hosts workshop
Lansing area residents can learn the benefits of buying and selling antiques from noon to 1 p.m. on Oct.
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Group holds CraneFest
Michigan Audubon Society's CraneFest will be held on Oct. 11-12 at Battle Creek Kiwanis Youth Area. The nonprofit organization's free event will offer a variety of events including crane viewing, an art show and sale, book signing, guided nature walks and a nature photo workshop.
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Event benefits CASA
MSU students will host the Grill-Off, an MSU and Lansing community fund-raiser from 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday for Court Appointed Special Advocates at Valley Court Field.Booths also will offer meals created on a grill.
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Sex solicitors face car seizure
The Lansing City Council voted Monday to reinstate an ordinance that allows police to seize the vehicles of people caught soliciting prostitutes.
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Center sponsors run
The Impression 5 Science Center will host the 11th Annual Capital City River Run on Sunday. Proceeds will support educational programs at the science center, located at 200 Museum Drive in Lansing.
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Radio station loses 'Edge,' turns to pop
Blake McLendon was a devoted listener of WWDX (92.1-FM) The Edge, jamming to the station in his room in Akers Hall until the station changed its name and format."I used to listen to it 24/7 in the dorms and now I don't," the finance junior said.
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Shelter helps for 2 decades
Haven House, a homeless shelter for families, celebrated its 20th anniversary of service to the greater Lansing community Tuesday. The shelter, 121 Whitehills Dr., commemorated the anniversary with a celebration combined with the Haven House annual fall fund-raiser. Haven House originally opened as the Economic Crisis Center in 1983 to help Lansing area homeless families.
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E.L. hosts ethnic dance program
The Hannah Community Center will be filled with the musical sounds of modern dance, jazz, hip-hop, tap, Latin and East Indian as over 70 dancers from different ethnic groups participate in "Dance for a Cause."Now in its second year, the event raises money through ticket sales and sponsors to benefit Habitat for Humanity of Lansing.
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Lansing officials test siren system
The Lansing Board of Water & Light will test its public warning system with a "whooping" tone and voice message in English and Spanish at 10 a.m.
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City quiet with first away game
It was the calmest, quietest weekend so far this semester in the city as the MSU football team took to the road, police said. East Lansing police didn't issue any citations under the city's new policy on party noise, which calls for jail time and steep fines for the most serious offenders.
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Story time
Parents and children escaped the gloomy weather Monday by enjoying an afternoon of reading, songs and crafts at the East Lansing Public Library.
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Council welcomes opinions
MSU students and city residents could have a chance to voice their opinions tonight at two meetings being held at the East Lansing City Hall, 410 Abbott Road.The University Student Commission will hold their first meeting of the year at 5:30 in Conference Room A.
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Family fun helps Ele's Place
Stalks of corn towered over Zachary Peabody Sunday as he led his family through a giant maze. "I know the way, I know the way!
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Lansing gains assistance for alternative fuel
Lansing will be one of 88 communities in the nation to receive a Clean Cities designation from the U.S.
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Annual dog walk raises $80,000
By Scott Cendrowski Special for The State News Max, a blue-eyed, 74-pound bulldog, panted on Saturday morning as Mariah Dersham came in for a kiss.
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Officials: Curb art violates ordinance
East Lansing officials are warning that a company is trying to scare residents into paying them to paint reflective addresses on curbs in front of their homes. The unnamed company is leaving fliers with large letters that say "Public Safety Notice" at the doors of homes in the city.
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Granholm asks state mayors for "cool cities"
Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced Friday that she has asked the mayors of more than 250 cities to help her find ways to make Michigan more attractive for new jobs and new citizens.
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Adopt A River program cleans up river banks
Hundreds of volunteers gathered underneath the Shiawassee Street Bridge at the banks of the Grand River Saturday to spend their morning picking up cigarette butts, aluminum cans and food wrappers.
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Builder asks to build on wetlands
The fate of the wetlands on Abbott and Lake Lansing roads remains undecided, as the East Lansing City Council seeks more information on the unfamiliar permit topic. Mark Rysberg of Rysberg Holdings LLC requested a Wetland Use Permit from the city to build townhouses and retail space along Abbott Road and an office building on Lake Lansing Road.
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Green roofs help climate
Okemos residents Tom and Anne Woiwode have gotten used to visitors climbing through their second-floor bathroom window to stand on their roof. Six hundred square feet of their roof is inhabited by plants, making it the first green roof in Mid-Michigan. "I'm willing to put up with it," Anne said with a laugh.