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.
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.
For students going home this Thanksgiving, the next four days may seem more like a hassle than a vacation.
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.
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.
A vacant building with dirty windows and some old newspapers will be getting a new summer look.Douglas J.
MSU’s student population makes East Lansing the place for a pizzeria, said the owner of the new spot in town. Cottage Inn Pizza owner George Hoover said the new location in East Lansing was in part because of MSU.
Eyes stuck to the sky in East Lansing on Sunday morning might have been looking for the meteors predicted to pierce through the night - but all they saw was fog. The Leonid shower occurs every November when the Earth passes through the debris of the Comet Tempel-Tuttle.
The state of Michigan won’t want to bring this report card home. A study released Tuesday by the Sierra Club gave Michigan and Detroit, Ann Arbor, Flint and Grand Rapids areas failing grades for efforts to clear up the air with transit spending. Lansing was not surveyed. The study, which had been put together over eight years, had pooled information from across the country. Anne Woiwode, director of the Mackinac Chapter of the Sierra Club, said the organization looked at the largest metropolitan areas.
The city of East Lansing will hold a workshop tonight for area resident groups interested in receiving matching grants for community projects. The grants, awarded by the city through the Community Improvement Challenge Program, allow community organizations like neighborhood associations or churches, to complete expensive programs they would not otherwise be able to afford. During the meeting at 7 p.m.
Ned Shure, co-founder of Ned’s Bookstores, died Nov. 10 of cancer in Ann Arbor.Shure, 58, began selling books in 1967 at the University of Michigan.
The city of East Lansing is getting into the holiday spirit.For several weekends in November and December, parking in the downtown lot ramps and at meters will be free. Ami Field, assistant community events director for the city, said this program has been going on for several years as a way to lure people into doing their holiday shopping downtown.“It’s basically to encourage people to come downtown to do their holiday shopping, it’s an incentive,” she said.The free parking days kick off Friday through Sunday and return Dec.
Packaging senior Salimah Turner always spends her Sunday afternoons studying. But this past Sunday, she joined members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority in the Wonders Hall Kiva to help raise money for a charity and scholarships during their Study-A-Thon, which is held twice a year. More than 40 students were expected to participate in the study day, which was from 10 a.m.
Since she began volunteering one year ago, Erica Benson’s eyes were opened to a world she had never known - a world without welcome mats, milk and cookies after school and steady paychecks. The linguistics graduate student volunteers at Haven House, 121 Whitehills Drive in Lansing, a shelter for homeless families. Gov.
Michigan is getting its own terror squad.Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announced Thursday that Michigan will be one of five states awarded a Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team.
East Lansing weather has given MSU one last shot at enjoying the outdoors before it must fight the winter.Many students could be seen taking advantage of the weather Thursday.
Lansing-area media, governmental, emergency, and business organizations made steps Thursday to prepare for crisis management.Community leaders met for a Crisis Communication Summit to plan for a joint response in the event of a terrorist attack at the Radisson Hotel, 111 N.
Fireworks will light up the sky behind the Capitol dome tonight to kick off the holidays with Silver Bells in the City. An electric light parade and the lighting of Michigan’s official holiday tree in front of the Capitol are a few of the attractions at the 17th annual celebration in downtown Lansing. “Thousands of people gather in a huge crowd and share the spirit of the season,” said Joanne Eason, a spokeswoman for the event.