Manchester Township Board Meeting – Feb 11, 2020
by Sybil Kolon, Community Reporter Corps This article covers items most likely to be of interest to residents. See the board’s minutes of this meeting (which will be available prior to the next meeting) or contact board members for more details. Residents should consider attending a board meeting now and then to keep abreast of […]
Letter to the Editor: Setting the Record Straight on Manchester Township/Manchester Village
Feb. 12, 2020 An article in the February 10 edition of The Manchester Mirror had some factual inaccuracies, as we are not sure where the confusion may have occurred, we feel it necessary to clarify. In the ‘Council Hears Public Questions on City Status’ article, Village President Pat Valliencourt was quoted as stating the village […]
Public Notice: Manchester Township
TOWNSHIP OF MANCHESTER 2020 MARCH BOARD OF REVIEW MEETINGS As required by the General Property Tax Act, public notice is hereby given by the Township of Manchester, that the 2020 March Board of Review will meet on the following days at the Manchester Township Hall located at 275 S Macomb, Manchester Michigan, for the purpose […]
Michigan debates future of kratom, an herbal remedy linked to 9 state deaths
By Robin Erb (Bridge) The crushed leaves in the little plastic bag they found next to his body was not what Peggy LaPenna expected would take her child from her. It wasn’t the prescription painkillers her son Joey started taking after an eye injury as a teen. It wasn’t the Xanax he’d sneak as a […]
Sheriff’s plea on mentally ill prisoner reveals gap in Michigan treatment
By Ted Roelofs (Bridge) Frustrated by a lack of treatment options, a sheriff in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula took to the Internet, pleading for help for a mentally ill Vietnam veteran stuck in his jail. Advocates say it’s merely the latest example of a failed criminal justice mental health system. “We have tried over and over […]
Michigan college tuition hikes leave average graduate with $35K in debt
By Joel Kurth and Mike Wilkinson (Bridge Special Report) More Michiganders than ever have a college degree, but the state ranks 30th in the United States for the rate of residents with an associate’s degree or higher: 45 percent of working-age adults. Fewer than 30 percent of adults have at least a bachelor’s degree compared […]
Early childhood education is key to success. Michigan still has work to do.
By Joel Kurth, Mike Wilkinson (Bridge Special Report) Preschool is a proven strategy to improve school readiness. Children in high-quality preschools are more likely to succeed in school, graduate from high school, earn higher incomes and commit fewer crimes. The stakes are intensified in Michigan by middling school performance. Michigan’s fourth-grade reading scores on the national assessment rank […]
Council hears public questions on city status
During the regular “Special Session on City Status” last Monday night, the Manchester Village Council received some feedback from the public. To start the discussion, Village President Pat Vailliencourt shared with Council that, “We are still waiting for an update from the State Boundary Commission, in response to their questions regarding consistent documentation of a […]
County Board of Commissioners opts not to dissolve Road Commission; instead explores adding members
The Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners (BOC) announced last fall that they were reviewing the governance structure of the Washtenaw County Road Commission. One option being considered was dissolving the Road Commission. That BOC has set that option aside, at least for now, and are focusing on other options. For the past 100 years, the […]
Manchester area residents asked to take broadband survey to correct inaccurate FCC map
Manchester area residents living in Manchester, Freedom, Sharon and Bridgewater Townships are being asked to help the Washtenaw County Broadband Taskforce better map broadband coverage by completing a short survey. The county studied broadband coverage for more than a year and at the end of 2018 released their findings which concluded that 18% of Manchester […]
