2022 was a banner year for varsity football
by Marsha Chartrand It has been a great year for the Manchester High School Flying Dutch football teams. To begin 2022, in January two Manchester community members — Larry McGee and Jack Smith — received the Honorary Membership Award to the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association for their 50 years of service to Manchester […]
The story of a sign in a building
submitted by Ray Berg, Manchester Area Historical Society Recent visitors to downtown Manchester have noticed ongoing reconstruction at 118 E Main St, traditionally known as “the bakery shop.” Developer Jason Cooper purchased this building, and also the adjacent 122 E Main St building, and is converting them into a combination of office storefront, a planned […]
Title 3 holds family information night at library
submitted by Melissa Yekulis, Klager Elementary School Manchester Community School’s Title 3 Team teamed up with the Manchester District Library to host the second annual Title 3 Family Information Night. During the evening families were treated to a fun scavenger hunt around the library. They traveled to different stations learning more about the Title 3 […]
Washtenaw County completes partial recount of Proposal 22-3 race
submitted by Washtenaw County Clerk/Register of Deeds Office The state-wide partial recount of Proposal 22-3 is now complete in Washtenaw County. On Monday, December 12, more than 50 assistants, coordinated by the Washtenaw County Clerk’s office Elections Division, gathered to perform a hand recount of the “Reproductive Freedom” proposal that appeared on the November 8, […]
Whitmer’s school parent council: Public service, public relations, or both?
by Isabel Lohman (Bridge Michigan) To understand Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Parents Council on schools, you have to go back to July, in the heat of an election campaign. Tudor Dixon had emerged as the establishment choice in the Republican primary race for governor, having the support of Michigan’s powerful DeVos family, while also gaining favor from former […]
As flu slams Michigan, COVID-19 hospitalizations rise as well
by Mike Wilkinson (Bridge Michigan) Michigan hospitals are getting slammed with flu patients for the first time in years, just as COVID-19 cases are rising again. Hospitalizations for COVID-19 hit 1,300 on Wednesday statewide, the most since late February and marking the third straight week of increases. At the same time, the number of emergency […]
Foster children to Michigan: Remove barriers, help us graduate school on time
by Tracie Mauriello, Chalkbeat Detroit (for Bridge Michigan) Christian Randle expected to spend his senior year in a dual enrollment program that allows Michigan students to receive college credit while still in high school. Instead, the Farmington 17-year-old is working toward just a high school equivalency certificate. He told the State Board of Education on […]
Luminaria will light the way again this Christmas
by Marsha Chartrand Who says a person with a vision can’t create something huge? Just ask Karen Hinkley how the luminaria tradition got started in Manchester back in 1977. “We moved to our home on Ann Arbor Hill in Manchester in 1976,“ Hinkley recalled a few years ago. “In 1977 I thought (the luminaria) would […]
Paul Whelan — left behind again, for how long?
by Marsha Chartrand Last Thursday morning, it was announced by the White House that Brittney Griner, a WNBA star who had been held prisoner in Russia for several months, had been released and was currently on a plane on her way back to the United States, as the result of a prisoner exchange that had […]
Parks plan to culminate in grant request for 2023
by Marsha Chartrand For many months, the Village of Manchester and Manchester Township have been working together to develop an update to the joint parks plan that was originally adopted in 2018. The plan is required to be updated every five years in order to be able to apply for grant monies from the Michigan […]
