Are you ready for Walk to School?
Children in grades K-6 are invited to participate again this year in an even bigger and better walk to school program! How much bigger and better, you ask? How about expanding opportunities for bus riders to walk from the high school to Klager and Riverside schools, to twice a week? How about more and bigger […]
Free diabetes screening at Aug. 22 Farmers Market
This Thursday (August 22), staff from Dr. Evelyn Eccles’ office will be at the Farmers Market, testing people for diabetes and pre-diabetes with the HbA1C test. The test is free and results will be provided directly to you. This is the third year this free health screening will be done at the Farmers Market, thanks […]
Letter to the Editor: Don’t let Village vs. City divide us
August 18, 2019 To the Editor: I have been a resident of Manchester Township for over 40 years and have been quite involved in the Manchester community. Last week I attended the special township board meeting about the effect on the township if the village becomes a city. The week before that I attended the […]
Amid literacy crisis, Michigan’s school librarians have all but disappeared
By Koby Levin (Bridge/Chalkbeat) When the basketball star and a local news crew showed up at Thurgood Marshall Elementary school in Detroit, the room the kids called the “library” was a glorified storage closet, complete with peeling paint, jumbled bookshelves and unopened cardboard boxes. By the end of the home makeover segment, the library looked the […]
Michigan’s Secretary of State promised 30-minute waits — lines are worse
By Riley Beggin (Bridge) Sheryl and Neil Lightner stepped outside Mason’s packed Secretary of State branch office last Tuesday to grab a smoke. They’d already waited more than an hour to renew a driver’s license and get new plate tabs, and there were still 24 people ahead of them. The Lightners needed to get outside, […]
Obituary: Susan M. DuRussel
Susan Marie DuRussel, 63, of Manchester, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, August 13, 2019 at her home after a 2- year battle with brain cancer. She was born on June 18, 1956 in Detroit, Michigan to Authur and Eleanor (Graczyk) Otlewski. She was a 1974 graduate of Dexter High School. Sue was known as a […]
Obituary: John D. Ochs
John David Ochs age 68, passed away on August 6, 2019 at his home near Ann Arbor. He was born on December 27, 1950 in Olney, Illinois. John is preceded in death by his parents, Henry and Susie Ochs, brother Sylvan, and sister Esther. He is survived by his wife of nearly 40 years, Susan […]
Memories of Manchester Speedway celebrated
Years before there was an MIS and NASCAR racing over in Brooklyn with large capacity stands and a two-mile surfaced track … there was a half-mile dirt track in rural Manchester Township, with weekly Friday night races that attracted a huge fan base. Yes, right here in Manchester. It’s been 47 years since the lights […]
Acorn reports to Village Council on progress
At Monday night’s Village Council meeting, a presentation from board members Megan DeLeeuw and Theresa Herron of the Acorn Farmers Market and Café, updated the council on the non-profit store’s momentum toward its goal of opening in April 2020. DeLeeuw gave a brief background on the store’s inception and early planning days, and described how […]
WISD millage passes county wide
Washtenaw County voters showed their support for public education when a majority of Washtenaw Intermediate School District (WISD) constituents voted to pass a bond proposal to renovate and rebuild High Point School, which serves students with severe disabilities from across Washtenaw County, on August 6. The vote means that more than $53 million will be […]
