Local volunteer organization donates to cancer fund-raiser
Submitted by Mark VanBogelen On January 19, 2019 the Bullseye Hunt Club held its annual ‘Big Buck Night’ at the Manchester Sportsman Club. The event hosts about 200 area hunters and outdoor enthusiasts. All tickets are sold before the hunting seasons start and successful hunters then have to have their trophies scored and compete for […]
Riverfolk announces Cultural Art Strings registration and fund-raiser
Fall Registration for the Cultural Art Strings program, part of the Riverfolk Music & Arts Organization, is open on Eventbrite.com from Aug 12-23. A $25 discount is available to anyone who registers by this Friday, August 23. (One discount per family). New this year, Chamber Music Ensembles are returning! Speak to a teacher to sign up for this option. In […]
Sharon UMC to consecrate new parsonage on Sept. 8
Sharon United Methodist Church invites the community to the consecration and open house of a new house for the pastor. “Parsonage Consecration Sunday” will be held on Sunday, Sept. 8, with consecration at 1:30 pm followed by the open house from 2-4 pm on the Sharon UMC Campus, 19890 Pleasant Lake Road. The hall is […]
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 […]
