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 […]
Riverside senior luncheon follows 45 years of tradition
It was an open house honoring some of Manchester’s most honorable citizens — its senior citizens. As the students have since around 1975, first at Klager Elementary School and now at Riverside Elementary School, they welcomed the senior citizens of our community to the school for a meal and some great entertainment. Vocal music by […]
Letter to the Editor: Thank You!
December 11, 2022 To the Editor: A light snow overnight — a good reason to stay in bed a little longer. But the alarm went off at 7am and soon after we were on our way to the Riverside School Cafeteria for our annual Lions Kids’ Christmas, which has enveloped our every waking minute of […]
U-M hospital system to acquire Sparrow Health in latest Michigan merger
by Robin Erb (Bridge Michigan) Lansing-based Sparrow Health System is to be absorbed into Michigan Medicine by next summer — a move that hospital leaders say will expand access to specialty medicine in mid-Michigan and put Sparrow on better financial footing, the health systems announced Friday. The deal is “expected to be completed in the first […]
Senate may vote on long-awaited recycling reform. Which one is unclear.
by Kelly House (Bridge Michigan) After years of bipartisan work on a bill package that would reform Michigan’s solid waste laws to boost recycling and composting, lawmakers are gearing up for a potential Senate vote on the bills Wednesday. A tentative Senate agenda for Wednesday specifies intent to see the bills through “all the way […]
How should Michigan fund school transportation? A new report offers a blueprint.
by Koby Levin, Chalkbeat Detroit (for Bridge Michigan) Rudyard Area Schools, a district in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, has just one school building to serve its entire K-12 enrollment of 627 students. And that building is about a 23-mile bus ride away from Trout Lake, a town of 330 people on the other side of the […]
Senior Citizens’ luncheon set for Wednesday at 11 am
by Marsha Chartrand For many years, the third and fourth graders at Manchester Community Schools have served the senior citizens of Manchester a delicious holiday dinner between Thanksgiving and Christmas. What was once baked turkeys, assisted by (themselves senior citizens) Mr. and Mrs. Ted Kuyda of Freedom Township and much of the food cooked by […]
