Nessel: Michigan redistricting panel must release memos; panel doubles down, won’t budge on secret memos
by Sergio Martínez-Beltrán (Bridge Michigan) LANSING— Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Monday that the state’s redistricting panel “must” disclose two voting rights memos used to draw districts in Detroit. In a 14-page legal opinion, Nessel also wrote that a closed-door meeting among redistricting commissioners on Oct. 27 about the memos “should have been held […]
Michigan wildlife official cries wolf. Gray wolf advocates want him gone.
by Kelly House (Bridge Michigan) If a dog disappears from a U.P. porch and nobody finds a body, is it fair to claim wolves killed it? That’s the question at the center of the latest volley in Michigan’s wolf wars, after a member of the Michigan Natural Resources Commission this month resurfaced a decade-old case […]
COVID school outbreaks skyrocket; more Michigan schools close
by Ron French (Bridge Michigan) Nearly three dozen Michigan school districts have shuttered classrooms early in what was already a short holiday week, in hopes that a longer Thanksgiving break will tamp down COVID outbreaks and relieve staff shortages. The closures come as COVID-19 outbreaks and infections in Michigan schools rise sharply. There were 140 […]
Geocaching: Now you can treasure hunt in Sharon Hills Preserve!
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in the Legacy Land Conservancy's November 2021 Legacy E-News and is republished with permission. By Pete Sandretto, Legacy Land Conservancy volunteer When I wrote a Legacy newsletter article about Geocaching on Legacy’s Preserves in 2014, there were about 1.6 million geocaches in the world. Now there are over 3 million! […]
Positive COVID-19 cases skyrocket in Manchester
For a few weeks in October, it appeared the current COVID wave we are experiencing was coming to an end and that this wave would be the smallest we’ve experienced in Manchester. Unfortunately, things took a turn for the worse in the beginning of November, when cases started rising again, and last week we had […]
Photos: Freedom Over Fear event
On Saturday, November 13th from 10:30 am to 3 pm, a local group behind the protest that led to the viral video showing unmasked students entering the High School building back in September, held a rally in the Manchester Jr./Sr. High School parking lot. Featured speakers included candidate for Michigan Governor, Ryan Kelley, and Manchester […]
Letter to the editor: Response to letter from "Educated Manchester citizens"
November 19, 2021 The letter to the editor from the educated in Manchester might have been persuasive if not for the fact it went off on a political tirade which revealed the true intent of the letter. First of all, has this group done this much research into all vaccines required by schools, employers or […]
Letter to the editor: Disciplinary policy makes students sad
November 21, 2021 Dear Editor, I would like to print my speech to the Manchester Board Of Education I made during public comment last Monday, November 15, 2021. It was cut short and I was not allowed to finish which is a violation of my Freedom of Speech guaranteed to every United States Citizen Under […]
Letter to the editor: The complication of an off-year school election
November 21. 2021 To the Editor: As Manchester township residents in the Columbia School District, we each had somewhat different experiences in trying to vote on November 2 on the Columbia millage proposal. None of us received written notice of the change in polling location, as pointed out by our neighbor, Dennis Kwapis, in the […]
