Fairy Garden walking tour now open!
submitted by Laura Wohlgemuth The Manchester Fairy Garden Walking Tour is NOW OPEN. Start your journey along Hibbard Street at the Manchester District Library and go on a Fairy Fun Adventure. When you reach the shared-use trail, keep your eyes open for 50 hidden fairies and gems … you may take one fairy and one […]
71st annual Chicken Broil set for July 20, 2024
submitted by Manchester Chicken Broil Committee The 71st annual Manchester Chicken Broil, the decades-long and entirely volunteer-run event that takes place in the City of Manchester, located 25 minutes outside Ann Arbor in Washtenaw County, is set for Saturday, July 20, from 4pm to 7:30pm at the Alumni Memorial Field, and with it comes some […]
Battle of the Bands coming to Manchester Fair
by Marsha Chartrand The Manchester Community Fair Board, “Michigan’s Biggest Little Fair,” would like to introduce a new event, Battle of the Bands, to the fair this year. This new event will happen on Thursday night, August 8, starting at 6pm. “The fair has had a battle of the bands in the past but not […]
Gazebo hosts Gemini for midsummer reading festival
by Marsha Chartrand The always-popular family band Gemini visited the Gazebo last Thursday as part of the Manchester District Library’s Summer Reading Program reading party. A definite festival atmosphere prevailed in Wurster Park, with free ice cream for all, a bubble table, free kids’ books, and, of course, plenty of dancing to the lively world […]
Albion College announces Spring 2024 dean’s list
Albion College announced the Spring 2024 semester dean’s list as well as those students named Albion College Fellows with a grade point average of 3.75 or above and three consecutive semesters on the dean’s list. Manchester student Carli Kerns was named to Albion’s dean’s list. Kerns is majoring in business with a minor in communication […]
Michigan students fell behind during COVID. Their recovery lags other states
by Mike Wilkinson & Isabel Lohman (Bridge Michigan) Michigan’s public school children have barely begun recovering what they lost academically during the pandemic and are well behind most states, according to a national analysis of state proficiency data. Despite modest gains last year, the studies show Michigan students remained nearly half a grade behind in […]
Michigan House votes to expand unemployment benefits to 26 weeks. GOP fumes.
by Lauren Gibbons (Bridge Michigan) LANSING — Eligibility for unemployment benefits in Michigan would be expanded from 20 to 26 weeks under legislation that cleared the state House Wednesday over objections from Republicans and business groups. The Democratic-majority House voted 56-54 to approve the legislation, which would permanently reverse a 2011 law signed by then-Republican Gov. […]
A tsunami-like wave on Lake Michigan? What to know about a ‘meteotsunami’
by Janelle D. James (Bridge Michigan) Severe rain and thunderstorms in West Michigan this week caused a rare weather event — a meteotsunami in Lake Michigan. Meteotsunamis are large waves typically triggered by disturbances in the air pressure like severe thunderstorms, unlike tsunamis, which are caused by seismic activity like earthquakes, according to the National […]
What’s new at the 2024 Chicken Broil?
by Marsha Chartrand We all know what’s traditional about the Manchester Chicken Broil. A half chicken slowly broasted over charcoal pits by well-trained volunteers. A secret-recipe coleslaw. A bag of chips. A radish (or two or three). A roll and butter. Add a bottle of water (Eeew, remember when it was a carton of warm […]
In Michigan, ‘fixing the damn roads’ got really darned expensive
by Lauren Gibbons, Bridge Michigan Don’t let the road crews, traffic cones and long commutes of summer construction season fool you — Michigan’s struggle to fix the roads is far from over. Despite Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s $3.5 billion highway bonding program, experts say record construction costs caused by inflation, worker shortages and more expensive reconstruction repairs […]
