Acorn Vendor of the Week: Gaskill Family Farm
The Manchester Mirror is running a series of articles to introduce the many vendors at Acorn Farmers’ Market & Café to the community. Each week a different vendor will be featured, to highlight the wide variety of offerings at our local Market, both now and in the future. Watch for this regular feature to learn […]
Local company provides consortium scholarship
The South and West Washtenaw Consortium has recommended Benjamin Polens, a senior at Chelsea High School and a second-year student in the SWWC Building Trades program, as the RoofManUSA and Greaves Family Building Trades Scholarship. The Greaves family, from Manchester, has sponsored this $500 scholarship, which Ben will use toward tuition at Northern Michigan University, […]
Manchester Mirror celebrates a milestone in print
They say time flies. And it’s true. This Wednesday, March 31, will mark the Manchester Mirror’s five-year anniversary of being a print newspaper. Five years ago, the staff of Sara and Fritz Swanson, Marsha Chartrand, Mike Austin, and Danielle Muntz, realized that although our online efforts were helping to inform and educate the community, there […]
Stories of Wil: Beyond Words
submitted by Christie Taylor Wil is a 14-year-old boy with Down syndrome. He is the little brother, by 20 months, to twin sisters, Katherine and Elizabeth. Wil’s mom, Christie, knew very little about Down syndrome when Wil was diagnosed shortly after his birth. It didn’t take long for Christie to realize how enriching life with […]
Report: 38 percent of Michigan households don’t earn enough for basic needs
by Paula Gardner (Bridge Michigan) Even before the coronavirus struck last year, Michigan faced headwinds in bringing better-paying jobs to the state. The industry promising the most new jobs in the years ahead in Michigan will be fast food: about 24,000 of them are expected every year through 2028. And few fields pay less. About […]
Teacher retirements soar in Michigan schools amid COVID pandemic
by Ron French (Bridge) In the span of a few weeks last fall, Alaiedon Elementary in Mason Public Schools lost two of its three first-grade teachers. First to resign was Jackie Lyons, who came from a family of teachers and loved being around kids. She left in mid-October. A colleague turned in paperwork to leave her […]
Michigan warns of PFAS contamination in Lake Superior smelt
by Kelly House (Bridge Michigan) Bad news for Michigan anglers who plan to net and fry a mess of fish during Lake Superior’s spring rainbow smelt run: The fish could be contaminated with PFAS. On Wednesday, Michigan regulators urged residents to limit consumption of smelt from the northernmost Great Lake to no more than one […]
Changes ahead for the Chicken Broil
This year’s Chicken Broil will not look significantly different than in previous years. There will still be the famous half of a chicken, slowly roasted over charcoal on grids, basted in butter, and served accompanied by secret recipe coleslaw, radishes, bread and butter, and a bag of chips. But one change you will see is […]
Dale Weidmayer remembered by Freedom colleagues
At the regular meeting of the Freedom Township Board on March 9, the board paused to remember the life and service of their former supervisor, Dale Weidmayer, who passed away on February 26 at the age of 76, just three months after ending his term last November. “A moment of silence was held in memory […]
Acorn Vendor of the Week: Needle-Lane Farms
The Manchester Mirror is running a series of articles to introduce the many vendors at Acorn Farmers’ Market & Café to the community. Each week a different vendor will be featured, to highlight the wide variety of offerings at our local Market, both now and in the future. Watch for this regular feature to learn […]
