Homecoming FUN
The Manchester High School homecoming was not only about football (well, maybe it was!), but there was more to the week that preceded it. In addition to the Varsity game on Friday night, there were Powder Puff football games, a banner contest, and of course the homecoming court. In addition, a planned parade through downtown […]
Fire Department holds open house
Sunny October skies and crisp fall temperatures made a perfect combination for those who wished to visit the Manchester Township Fire Department’s open house on Sunday afternoon between 1-3 pm. Although a scheduled landing of the life flight helicopter had to be cancelled due to a last-minute emergency, there was much for families to see […]
Senate panel passes bills to try 17-year-olds as juveniles in crimes
By Riley Beggin (Bridge) Michigan is one of only four states that automatically treat 17-year-olds as adults in the criminal justice system. That would change under bipartisan bills that passed out of Senate committee Thursday morning and which are likely to be supported in both houses of the Legislature for the first time in years. […]
Michigan has $1B left over from budget. What happens to all that money?
By Riley Beggin (Bridge) Michigan’s state budget finalized last week outlines how the government will spend around $59 billion over the next year. It was hard-won: Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Republican leaders Sen. Mike Shirkey and Rep. Lee Chatfield are at odds over many funding priorities such as schools and roads, making for months of turbulent […]
Tiny school districts to Lansing: Stop acting like ‘middle-schoolers’
by Ron French (Bridge) As principal and superintendent of the one-building Whitefish Township Community School in the Upper Peninsula community of Paradise, Tom McKee recognizes middle-school behavior when he sees it. His school district is set to lose 16 percent of its funding because of vetoes by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the failure of the […]
Ethan Warren achieves Eagle Scout Rank, with a little help from his friend
Ethan Warren, 16, of Manchester, achieved his Eagle Scout rank in Troop 426 on July 9. This elite status, achieved by only about 4 percent of all Scouts, is the highest honor in all of Boy Scouting. The rank of Eagle may be earned by a Scout who has been a Life Scout for at […]
Lions Club to revive annual cider sale
The Manchester Lions Club will carry on the former Kiwanis Club’s tradition of the annual Cider Sale, which will be held this year on October 26. “With the demise of the Kiwanis of Manchester, at their request the Lions took over their Cider Sales fundraiser,” said Barry Allen, president of the Lions Club. “This is […]
National Walk To School Day a small-town success
They say it takes a village. And it did. Well, then you can throw in some local clergy, fire department volunteers, school board and village council members, police, school staff and administration, parents, and even retired teachers, and you get a pretty good idea of what it took to pull off a successful Walk to […]
Seeking a cure: The quest to save the Midwest’s rural hospitals
by Jennifer Hemmingsen for IowaWatch, (via Bridge) Small rural Midwest community hospitals, squeezed by financial and regulatory pressures, are scaling back on services, merging with larger hospital systems and searching for other creative ways to survive in the short term, an Institute for Nonprofit News investigation by 12 news organizations in seven states revealed. Rural […]
