Report: Funding cuts, high tuition spawn a cost crisis at Michigan colleges
by Ron French (Bridge) Michigan families are facing a college affordability crisis caused by a “perfect storm” of falling wages and state disinvestment in higher education, according to a new report released Friday. That affordability crisis is hitting hardest among Michigan’s rural and low-income families, according to the report, by the New York-based Century Foundation, which describes […]
Schulte honored on “Wall of Fame” for 2019
It’s been 30 years since a car accident paralyzed 10-year-old Paul Schulte. You could say that paralysis took away his dreams of playing sports. Or you can put it like Paul did, himself, in a Facebook post last week: “(Thirty) years ago I gained my paralysis from a car accident. In the time that followed, […]
Riverfolk fund-raiser a swinging success
A cool and breezy late-summer evening surrounded by apple trees and a country summer sunset was the perfect setting for Riverfolk Music & Arts Organization’s first major fund-raiser last Saturday night. Hosted in the orchard at Alber’s Cider Mill in Freedom Township, the event featured both classic and modern string performances by Cultural Art Strings, […]
Senior meals start up again this week
The Manchester Area Senior Citizens Council, Inc. (MASCC), is gearing up for another year of great meals and plenty of fellowship. Senior meals are held at noon each Tuesday and Thursday during the school year, at the Emanuel United Church of Christ fellowship hall on the lower level. The first meals of the fall will […]
Athletic Wall of Fame adds new inductees
New members appearing on the Manchester High School Athletic Wall of Fame were inducted on Thursday night with a special pre-game ceremony and a half-time presentation during the first home football game vs. Clinton. Paul Schulte (see related article), Garry Eversole, and the 1991 and 1992 MHS football teams were honored in this year’s induction […]
Michigan committee approves health warning labels for marijuana
by Riley Beggin (Bridge) LANSING – The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved bills that would require labels on marijuana indicating its health risks for pregnant mothers. “This is a brand new product that’s going out … and a lot of people automatically think ‘Wow it’s legal, it’s going to be safe,’” said Rep. Daire […]
Michigan schools say they can’t find enough substitute teachers
by Ron French (Bridge) Michigan schools are increasingly unable to find enough substitute teachers to fill their classrooms, a shortage that threatens to impact learning in the state’s already struggling public education system. A survey of school leaders released Monday by Michigan Applied Public Policy Research and the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research, […]
SRSLY adds new youth programming this school year
submitted by Alex Duranczyk, SRSLY Manchester Coalition Director Do you remember the “SRSLY? Check your Stats” campaign from 2018? This year, our Project Success counselor and SRSLY team are working with students to develop a lunch campaign called “SRSLY–Check in with Us.” You will see the team at lunch at Manchester Junior/Senior High School once […]
School board adds two new positions at Klager and Riverside
Last Monday night at the regularly scheduled Board of Education meeting for Manchester Community Schools, two new positions, each titled “Dean of Student Success,” were hired for Klager Elementary and Riverside Intermediate schools. “With the administrative shift this year, we wanted to make sure that there is an administrator in each building at all times, […]
Village continues to seek public input on city status
Village Council met last Monday night with an agenda item to field public questions or comment on seeking city status, but no citizens came forward. Village President Pat Vailliencourt announced that she will be available to meet with residents to answer their questions on at 9 am each Wednesday in the lobby of the village […]
