Middle school robotics team reaches state competition
by Caiden Kippnick, freshman at Manchester High School and member of Manchester Robotics Manchester’s middle school robotics team #11193, The Flying Dutchbots, is advancing to the state championship for the third consecutive year. To get to this point, a lot has happened along the way. A few days before the season kickoff, former robotics coach […]
Freedom Childcare Center’s Annual Christmas Program
Freedom Childcare Center’s children will have their annual Christmas program service on December 8th at 3 pm. at St Thomas Lutheran Church, 1001 West Ellsworth Road. Everyone is invited to come and see the children share the message of Jesus’ birth. Refreshments will be served afterward.
Manchester residents invited to Saline Christmas Crèche Exhibit
On Saturday, December 7, 2019, from 10 am to 5 pm, Holy Faith Church located at 6299 Ann Arbor-Saline Road in Saline, will be holding third annual “Follow the Star: Christmas Crèche Exhibit.” Laurie Tikkanen, of Holy Faith Church, explained that the event wasn’t widely publicized last year until after it was over and area […]
DDA Beautification Award presented to River Raisin Antiques & Mercantile
submitted by Manchester Downtown Development Authority The Downtown Development authority recently recognized River Raisin Antiques & Mercantile with a Beautification Award. The delightfully decorated window brightens the north side of the West Main Street business district. They carry a wide range of antique and vintage finds, as well as decor, gifts, toys, candles and so […]
Obituary: Russell Allen Smith
His Legacy… Russell Allen Smith, 78, passed away peacefully at his home on November 25, 2019. He was born on August 18, 1941 in Dearborn, Michigan to Robert Allan and Arline (Barkwell) Smith. Russ married the love of his life, Sandra Harper, on June 16, 1962 in Dearborn, Michigan He will be remembered as […]
Michigan finds some success fighting opiate crisis on front line: emergency rooms
By Ted Roelofs (Bridge) DETROIT — A couple of months ago, Detroit resident Juanita Gross was desperate to turn her life around. She had a $200 a day opioid habit. She had already overdosed three times – and feared the next one might be her last. So she had her two adult children drive her […]
Michigan term limits face court challenge from former lawmakers
By Riley Beggin, Ron French (Bridge) LANSING – As unpopular among policymakers as they are popular in the public, Michigan’s term limits will now face a challenge in court. A bipartisan group of former legislators on Wednesday announced plans to file a federal lawsuit against the state, seeking to end term limits on Michigan legislators. […]
Michigan youth suicide rate doubles: what parents can do
By Robin Erb, Mike Wilkinson (Bridge) In the small northern Michigan town of Kingsley, Jamie Pobuda heard the news last year that a 16-year-old local boy had killed himself. Then just months later, a 14-year-old boy took his own life, too. An inventory control supervisor raising her teenage granddaughter, Pobuda remembers the way the […]
Display at Historical Society Museum celebrates 100 years of American Legion Auxiliary
submitted by Rita Huber The Manchester American Legion #117, has set up a historical display at the Kingsley Center House celebrating the 100th year of the American Legion Auxiliary. Auxiliary members Jeannine Uphouse and Rita Huber, with the help of Sue Hansen LaRocque from the Historical Society, set up the display on November 11th, Veterans […]
