Albion College Athletes Named to MIAA Academic Honor Roll
Albion College is pleased to recognize the nearly 200 Britons named to the 2021-2022 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Academic Honor Roll. This honor is given to varsity athletes who maintain a GPA of 3.5 or better for the entire academic year. Manchester scholar/athlete Rayna Edwards was a member of Albion’s women’s soccer team. Edwards is […]
Letter to the editor: Township officials need to be more responsive to residents
September 1, 2022 Dear Editor: I’m a long-time resident of Freedom Township; many years on Parker Rd. and the past 20 years at Pleasant Lake. For years I’ve attended Planning Commission meetings, Board meetings and township events. I currently serve on the Pleasant Lake Property Owners Association Board. I love Pleasant Lake. It’s where my […]
Letter to the editor: Who benefits from the “reforms” to auto insurance?
September 1, 2022 To the Editor: I don’t have a dog in this fight, other than I pay auto insurance in this state. But, Kudos to the Michigan court of appeals judges, Douglas Shapiro and Sima Patel. Their 2-1 ruling on the 2019 Michigan no-fault insurance reform law is a just decision. I hope the […]
September 2022 Gardening Advice
submitted by Jennifer Fairfield, Garden Mill and Manchester Community & School Gardens Mother Nature sure has a sense of humor. Immediately after I said, in last month’s newsletter, that the main thing we all needed to be doing for our gardens was watering, she started sending us lots of rain! I think I only watered […]
Michigan’s 3rd-grade reading scores show the cost of remote COVID learning
by Tracie Mauriello (Bridge Michigan) Researchers found alarming increases in the proportion of Michigan third graders reading significantly below grade level and widening gaps in performance between Black and white students, and between students from low-income families and peers from wealthier families. The performance disparities provide more evidence of the pandemic’s disproportionate impact on at-risk […]
Romance author Nora Roberts helps save MI library defunded over LGBTQ books
by Ron French (Bridge Michigan) It could make a great final chapter of a book: A doomed library is saved by the small checks of book lovers, and one huge donation from an internationally known author whose novels are among the most popular on the library’s shelves. Romance novelist Nora Roberts donated $50,000 last week to […]
735K signed abortion-rights petition. How word spaces may keep it off ballot
by Jonathan Oosting and Yue Stella Yu LANSING — An abortion rights petition signed by more than 735,000 Michigan voters could be kept off the Nov. 8 ballot because of what opponents say are “60 missing spaces between what were formerly words.” Welcome to the great “kerning” debate of 2022, the biggest fight over a seemingly […]
Golf cart ordinance passed by Village Council
by Marsha Chartrand In mid-July, a public comment during a Village Council meeting introduced the idea of using golf carts as an additional way of “commuting around town“ and providing a “little extra spice“ in the village. The suggestion was met with interest by some Council members, so at the August 1 council meeting, Village […]
New Acorn manager setting his sights on future growth
by Marsha Chartrand A mid-life career change led Mark Spina to several other life changes, including a move to Manchester last year. “I had worked as an engineer for 23 years,“ he explains, “and on a Thursday morning I went in and soon learned I didn’t have a job anymore. My position had been outsourced.“ […]
Oh, Shoot! Vacation Bible School reimagined in archery.
submitted by Shirley Disch, Sharon United Methodist Church Centershot coach Vacation Bible School reimagined in archery? Sharon United Methodist Church, located at the corner of Pleasant Lake Road and M-52, just finished a very exciting week teaching young people (and even those young at heart) archery skills and the story of Jesus. The program, called […]
