Obituary: Peggy Vivien Townsend
Peggy Vivien Townsend, 87, of Manchester, Mich., passed away on March 14, 2025, at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Chelsea, Mich. Peggy’s family and friends will gather on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, from 3pm to 7pm, at Eineder Funeral Homes — Manchester Chapel and on Thursday, March 20, 2025, at 10am, at Zion Lutheran Church […]
Manchester Wrestlers shine at state tournament
by William Gross The Manchester wrestling team sent seven members to the individual State Tournament at Ford Field last weekend, where two members of the team brought home State Championships. Juniors Sammy Stewart and Blake Sloan were undefeated on their runs to individual state titles. Also placing in the State Tournament were seniors Nathan Fletcher […]
Worth a celebration! Worth Repeating celebrates 5 years.
submitted by Pat Sahakian, Worth Repeating Worth Repeating invites the community to share our fifth birthday celebration on March 15. We will have free cake for shoppers, and all clothes and shoes will be free for a donation during the week of March 12 to 15. Since the start of our operations in March 2020, […]
Carnival is coming to Klager! Fun for all ages!
submitted by Melissa Yekulis The Manchester community is cordially invited to join the Klager community for Carnival! Carnival is a fundraiser for Klager’s Leader in Me initiative. This cash-only event will be taking place at Luther C. Klager Elementary School on Friday, March 14, from 5:30 to 7:30pm. Game and prize tickets are 25¢ each. […]
Letter to the Editor — Join the resistance
See: Federal firings hit Great Lakes sea lamprey program, Michigan forestry workers 3-9-25 To the Editor: We have a choice. Let’s band together for America. Fight back, be vocal. Don’t accept the coup of our great democracy. To wait it out is to be complicit. Speak up. It’s okay. No one voted for what’s happening! […]
Nation’s butterflies are disappearing at alarming rate, MSU researchers find
by Kelly House (Bridge Michigan) The nation’s butterflies are disappearing at an alarming rate, a sign of a crisis in the insect world that could ripple throughout the food web, according to a new study co-authored by Michigan State University researchers. The study, published Thursday in the journal Science, tallied two decades worth of data from […]
‘Historic’ Michigan buildings targeted for sale by Trump administration
by Lauren Gibbons (Bridge Michigan) President Donald Trump’s administration is considering offloading Michigan’s oldest federal building in Port Huron and a historic Battle Creek complex with nearly 2,000 workers as part of ongoing efforts to cut government spending. Both were identified for potential sale Tuesday by the US General Services Administration as part of a […]
Michigan’s new car seat law takes effect April 2: What to know
by Janelle D. James (Bridge Michigan) Michigan’s updated car seat law, which requires children under the age of 2 years old to be in a rear-facing car seat, will go into effect April 2. Previously, only children under the age of 1 had to be rear-facing. Car crashes are one of the leading causes of death […]
Jr/Sr High School principal Wendy Bridges resigns
by Marsha Chartrand In another surprise for the Manchester Community Schools district, on February 28 Superintendent Dr. Brad Bezeau, who announced his own resignation in early February and will complete his term in June, sent MCS families a letter sharing another resignation from the administrative team. The letter stated, “This week at the Lincoln Consolidated […]
Water main valves to be upgraded this spring
by Marsha Chartrand “We don’t have any real serious problems yet — but we want to upgrade things to make our jobs easier before any potential problems get bigger,” said DPW Superintendent Brent Jones while explaining the planned updates to the water main valves within the City of Manchester. He added that many mains and […]
