All Michigan Secretary of State offices will be closed May 31 in observance of Memorial Day. Licenses and plates that expire when state offices are closed can be renewed the following day without penalty.
Police officers will take to the streets to implement seat belt enforcement zones from May 24 through June 6 across the state as part of the “Click It or Ticket” campaign to remind drivers to buckle up.
Aureal Cross, a retired MSU emeritus professor from the Department of Geological Sciences, received the McMicken Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Cincinnati on Saturday.
After serving the highest number of meals in its 113-year history, the Volunteers of America, or VOA Community Kitchen in Lansing might not be able to meet the increasing need, said Patrick Patterson, vice president of operations.
initial figures from the Lansing Census Bureau confirm strong household return numbers for the area. About 80 percent of Ingham County returned the census form, compared to the national average of about 70 percent.
The Michigan House of Representatives stayed in session late Thursday night and into Friday morning to pass a bill that could create numerous jobs in the state for MSU education students and save schools across Michigan hundreds of millions of dollars. The legislation will create incentives for older teachers to retire, potentially opening the job market for recent graduates.
Ten teams went head-to-head in a 48-hour filmmaking competition Friday through Sunday to write, produce and edit five-minute movies in the East Lansing Film Festival Spring 48/5 Film Contest. The winning films will be shown as part of the 13th annual East Lansing Film Festival on November 10-18.
For some businesses in downtown East Lansing, students leaving in the summer means a shift in clientele, preempting more local than student-based business. Although East Lansing businesses experience a drastic decrease in student clientele, attracting crowds from the community helps keep businesses steady during the summer months.
Michigan State’s Summer Circle Theatre celebrated its 50th anniversary Thursday with a gala and fundraiser — complete with actors in wardrobe — at the Fairchild Theatre. Proceeds from the event will toward upgrading the performers’ audio equipment.
SADD hosted a noodle eating contest and fundraiser at Noodles & Company, 205 E. Grand River Ave., Thursday night, between 10 local police officers. Five members of the MSU and East Lansing police departments ate bowls of noodles one at a time in competition for the “Pig Bowl” trophy.
The smoke is set to clear Saturday when a statewide smoking ban goes into effect, and many East Lansing residents and establishments said they see a positive future for businesses and society. Restaurant owners said implementing the law in May instead of when it was passed in December will help customers adjust while the weather is conducive to being outside.
Under a revision to a university policy, appointments to fixed-term employee positions made on or after March 1 can be ended before contractual expiration dates for budgetary reasons. The policy requires written notice be given to the employee 30 days before the date of termination.
This year will mark the 14th annual Pack Up, Pitch In, Help Out program at MSU as students prepare to leave for the summer. The program helps to promote environmental sustainability on campus by providing easy ways for students to recycle plastics, white paper, mixed paper, wood and carpet.
One week after he was elected Student Assembly Chairperson, Eric Branoff has resigned. Branoff gave up his seat at ASMSU’s Student Assembly meeting Thursday night to accept a scholarship to study Arabic for a year in Amman, Jordan.
When he was ordained in December 2008 after recovering from serious health complications, a pastor in the audience came up and said Jacque McDaniel would one day have his own church. On Tuesday, that proclamation will begin to come true.
Students looking to squeeze one last learning experience from MSU can attend this year’s concluding Brown Bag lecture at the MSU Museum Auditorium on Friday.
For Tim Potter, being around bicycles — fixing them, selling them and riding them — was a big part of growing up in Okemos and his years at MSU. Potter, now the manager of the MSU Bikes Service Center, was part of the East Lansing Bike Co-op in the 1970s and has provided some of his past experience and advice to the newly organized Lansing Bike Co-op leading up to its Spring Launch Party held Wednesday.
East Lansing community members had one of their final chances to ask questions and raise concerns about the city’s 2011 budget at the final community-wide budget forum on Wednesday night at the East Lansing Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road.
The fire that destroyed a building in the Trappers Cove Apartments, 3001 Trappers Cove Trail, in Lansing, is being ruled an accident, Lansing Fire Department Capt. Maggie Murphy said.
David Cooper, head of the sociology department at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, will speak at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.