Keeping up with the Joneses might take on a different meaning in Lansing.The Cohousing Development Co. purchased 23.8 acres at 3721 Aurelius Road in Lansing, which will be made into Meadowood Cohousing, the first cohousing neighborhood in Lansing.
Lansing - Lansing Community College is making it easier for members of the Michigan National Guard to complete college degrees. The college, 500 N.
Six women from Michigan battled the arctic cold to make a 150-mile trek across the North Pole in April.On Tuesday, those same women were honored with a luncheon and a plaque in a place a little warmer - the state Capitol.
The future of bicycle and pedestrian traffic on campus and throughout the city will be changing in the coming years. A project combining the efforts of MSU’s Department of Campus Park and Planning and the city of East Lansing will evaluate how to extend the Lansing River Trail through the MSU campus and connect it to Meridian Township and East Lansing’s bike and hike trail system. The group of MSU staff, faculty and students, East Lansing and Meridian Township officials, area residents, the Michigan Department of Transportation, Rail to Trails and Ingham County Parks representatives began working on the project in earnest in July and came up with two different possible master plans.
The holiday spirit of giving might have overtaken the Michigan Great Lakes Protection Fund.Gov.
State Rep. Virg Bernero will host a town hall meeting in Lansing on Thursday to allow residents to talk with experts on terrorism and bioterrorism.Representatives from the military, U.S.
The war on terrorism hasn’t stopped some people from tapping the Rockies.The week ending Sept.
State gas prices have reached a new two-year low Monday, said Jim Rink, AAA Michigan’s spokesman.The average statewide price for self-serve unleaded fuel is $1.14 per gallon.
In October, the East Lansing city limits grew and the Meridian Township boundary lines shrank, but one issue remains unsettled in some minds - whether proper treatment was given to the one resident of the newly annexed property.Gerry Mannausa, co-owner of the 66-acre parcel of land known as Four Winds Golf Course, 5800 Park Lake Road, said unfair tactics were used by the township toward his nephew, Robert Mannausa, to determine if he was a legal resident of the property.Meridian Township sued Robert Mannausa and subpoenaed for several documents that Gerry Mannausa, who also served as his nephew’s lawyer, feels were unnecessary in the case.Some of these items included his draft card, health insurance card and policy, certificate of car insurance, credit card statements and cell phone bills for the previous five months.“By naming him as a party for this lawsuit, they were trying to get an injuncture to the election in November,” Gerry Mannausa said.
State reps. Gretchen Whitmer and Paul DeWeese will stop to chat with MSU students about fake identification and election reform tonight. Whitmer, D-East Lansing, and DeWeese, R-Williamston, will be the guests at an ASMSU-sponsored town hall meeting at 7:30 p.m.
Even the city of East Lansing needs a face lift every now and then.But unlike the heavy equipment working on the city center and fountain square projects, this face lift was virtual.The city unveiled its newest improvement, an upgraded Web site, last week.The old site had been in place since 1996 but, while it was comprehensive with more than 15,000 pages of information, the site was not interactive or easily upgraded.“It wasn’t long after (the original site’s) shortcomings began to show,” City Manager Ted Staton said.
Lansing - A 74-foot white spruce forced traffic away from Michigan Avenue in front of Oldsmobile Park for more than two hours Wednesday night.
U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Brighton, along with Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Calif., began the Intelligent Transportation Systems Caucus in hopes of best using new transportation technologies.Rogers said the caucus will work toward applying high technology to make the nation’s airports, highways, railroads and transit systems safe, secure and efficient.“We will have applied technology to automobiles in the future that will allow us to be less oil dependent and have cleaner engines,” he said.
The holiday season usually means a surge in greeting-card sales and more demands on postal services, and this year should be no different. Despite anthrax scares and a sluggish economy, retail shops are reporting sales have not slowed. A recent poll conducted by the U.S.
Michigan motorists will see more than 10,000 new patriotic license plates on the road this Thanksgiving. Since initiating the patriotic “Proud To Be American” license plate Oct.
Lansing - This toy story might be more of a horror story. Public Interest Research Group In Michigan released a report Tuesday highlighting various toys that can be considered harmful and fatal for children. The report focused on possible choking hazards and toys made with toxic chemicals. Chemicals such as nail polish with toluene in teething toys are harmful for children younger than 3-years-old.
For students going home this Thanksgiving, the next four days may seem more like a hassle than a vacation.
A vacant building with dirty windows and some old newspapers will be getting a new summer look.Douglas J.
Tonight’s East Lansing City Council meeting will mark the first meeting of Councilmember Vic Loomis and Councilmember Bill Sharp’s new term.It will also feature a full agenda, because it is the first council meeting in nearly a month.Among the issues to be discussed or acted upon during the 7:30 p.m.
As Michigan motorists take off for the holidays, Mothers Against Drunk Driving is reminding drivers not to mix booze with navigating roads.MADD initiated its 15th annual statewide Red Ribbon “Tie One on For Safety” safe and sober driving holiday public awareness campaign Monday at the state Capitol.Red ribbons will be tied to automobiles to serve as reminders to drive alcohol-free in response to the campaign.“This is a memorial to families who have lost loved ones to drunk drivers, and it continues to get the public support to enforce the laws tightly,” said Chuck Hurley, a former national board member of MADD and vice president of the National Safety Council.“Many have likened drunk drivers to terrorists, randomly killing innocent people.”Hurley said the National Safety Council is predicting 532 people will be killed in traffic accidents during the Thanksgiving Day holiday, and about 40 percent of those deaths will be alcohol related.“Some events are hard to predict and hard to prevent,” he said.