Sara Swanson

April 2022 Senior Student of the Month: Cerine Cubberly

submitted by Manchester Jr./Sr. High School  Our April 2022 Manchester Community Schools Foundation Student of the Month for Manchester High School is Cerine Cubberly. Cerine is the daughter of Theresa Mouser. She has been a member of the Spanish Club for three years while being their treasurer for one year. After high school Cerine plans […]

 Sara Swanson

Underclass students of the month announced for April

submitted by the Manchester Junior/Senior High School Students in grades 7-11 at Manchester Junior-Senior High School received their Student of the Month awards for promoting a good way of life; for working and getting along with people; for working up to your capacity; for inspiring respect for adults, peer groups, and people in authority; for […]

 Sara Swanson

Photos: Power lines damaged by truck boom

Friday evening a truck from Napoleon Feed Mill drove through the Village with its boom up, catching and pulling down multiple power lines and poles and as a result knocking out power to part of town and closing multiple intersections. 

 Sara Swanson

Letter to the editor: Thank you to river clean-up crew

May 14, 2022 We’d like to thank the crew that cleans up the river for the Canoe and Kayak race. Besides myself, the clean-up crew consisted of Tim Houchin, Silis Bialecki, Dennis Kittel, Ryan Novess and Masonic members Joe Jarvis and Ron Marecle. Jim Mann Manchester Views expressed in any Letter to the Editor are […]

 Sara Swanson

Public notice: Village of Manchester

ATTENTION VILLAGE OF MANCHESTER RESIDENTS NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING A public hearing has been scheduled for June 6, 2022, at the regular Council Meeting at 7pm at the Manchester Village Hall in Council Chambers, 912 City Rd., Manchester, Michigan, for the purpose of discussing adoption of the 2022/2023 Budget. A copy of the budget is available […]

 Sara Swanson

Michigan’s teacher shortage: What’s causing it, how serious is it, and what can be done?

  by Tracie Mauriello and Lori Higgins, Chalkbeat Detroit At a state school board meeting earlier this year, a Muskegon teacher told a story that underscored why education leaders, lawmakers, and the governor are pushing hard to address Michigan’s teacher shortage problem. Danielle Groendyk, an English language arts teacher at Oakridge High School who is […]

 Sara Swanson

Complaint: Michigan group fighting voter ID ‘secretly’ bought out circulators

by Yue Stella Yu (Bridge Michigan) LANSING — A Michigan group opposing voter ID requirements paid a firm not to gather signatures for its opponents and failed to properly disclose the payments, according to a complaint obtained by Bridge Michigan. Protect MI Vote — a group fighting Republican-led ballot measure Secure MI Vote — hired […]

 Sara Swanson

Michigan National Guard wants to double Camp Grayling training land

by Kelly House (Bridge Michigan) The Michigan National Guard wants to more than double the footprint of its Camp Grayling military training complex in Crawford, Kalkaska, and Otsego counties in northern Michigan. Under the plan, the Guard is seeking permission to use surrounding state-owned property to bolster capacity for modern training that requires vast swaths […]

 Sara Swanson

Thorn Lake Solar Farm; Boon or Bust?

by Kenny Frost There is certainly no shortage of hot-button topics in the public discourse today, although few are echoed globally both in media and scientific journals as much as climate change. With many factions and just as many proposed calls to action, the movement to employ reliable, renewable, and, optimistically, cheaper and safer alternatives […]

 Sara Swanson

Manchester native authors Amazon bestseller, Until September

Manchester native, and the Manchester Mirror’s new copy editor, Harker Jones has a book out! Until September is a coming-of-age love story about two boys meeting one summer between high school and college in 1966.  Jones stated, “It seemed too obvious for homophobia to be the central issue, even for the time period, so while […]