Letter to the Editor: Standing Up For Science in Lansing
March 10, 2025 Three of us retired Baby Boomers headed to our State Capitol in Lansing for the Stand Up For Science Rally on Friday, March 7. We walked from the parking lot a quarter mile away with our simple handmade placards. The sound of the crowd increased in volume as we approached the 1879 […]
Letter to the Editor: Elon Musk is a patriot
March 10, 2025 See: Letter to the editor: Join the resistance First let me state that I DID VOTE for what Elon Musk is doing. The biggest threat to our country is our national debt. The Biden Administration spent 4 years telling us that they could not fix the mass invasion at the southern border […]
Public notice: Manchester Township
PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, the Manchester Township Planning Commission will hold a Public Hearing on Thursday, April 3rd, 2025, at 7:30 pm. The purpose of this hearing is to receive public comments on a proposed conditional land use at the property located at 13051 Schleweis Road in the AG, Rural Agricultural District. […]
‘Fear, anxiety’ for Michigan Ukrainian refugees as Trump considers deportation
by Lauren Gibbons (Bridge Michigan) Thousands of Ukrainians who relocated to Michigan after fleeing from war and violence in their home country are now bracing for the possibility of removal from the United States. Last week, Reuters reported that President Donald Trump’s administration would revoke the legal status of 240,000 Ukrainians currently living in the country under […]
Green Book in Michigan: Inside the mission to preserve Black travel sites
by Paula Gardner (Bridge Michigan) WOODLAND PARK, Newaygo County — Locals call it the “four corners.” Travelers driving through the quiet spot near Woodland Lake 40 miles north of Grand Rapids may see few signs that, a century ago, the rural crossroads was the hub of one of Michigan’s most popular Black resorts. But the […]
Takeaways: Vance defends tariffs, urges patience in Michigan
by Jordyn Hermani (Bridge Michigan) BANGOR TOWNSHIP —The future success of the United States may depend on a manufacturing resurgence, Vice President JD Vance said Friday, arguing tariffs are necessary to “support the American worker.” Vance spoke for about 20 minutes in Bangor Township at Vantage Plastics, an industrial manufacturer that has received state subsidies to add […]
Horning Farms’ “Meat the Need” program provides 99 lbs ground beef to CRC
submitted by Carol Wotring, Executive Director, Community Resource Center The Manchester Community Resource Center recently received a generous donation of 99 pounds of ground beef from Horning Farms through their “Meat the Need” Ground Beef Donation Program. This community-supported initiative allows local residents to contribute funds toward ground beef donations, with Horning Farms matching contributions […]
New Wellness Coalition leadership as Berg steps down after 15 years
submitted by Lori Kintz and Matt Pegouskie, 5HF Wellness, fun, and Ray Berg. For almost 15 years those three things have been a given at almost every meeting and event hosted or sponsored by our local Manchester Wellness Coalition (MWC). At the February MWC coalition meeting, Berg officially turned the reins of chairing Manchester Wellness […]
MCS considers impact of potential federal funding disruptions
by Sara Swanson We reported in October that the school district had received five grants funding literacy, anti-bullying and violence, behavioral interventions, new electric buses, and computer science. You may be wondering with all of the federal funding freezes in the news if any of this funding was affected. They weren’t, but that doesn’t mean […]
The ‘Manchester Enterprise‘ archive is fixed!
by Fritz Swanson If you go to https://themanchestermirror.com/History/ you will find links to every extant copy of the Manchester Enterprise, the newspaper that served Manchester from 1867 until about 2014. Since about 2022, those files were inaccessible because of a technical issue with the web-hosting company that hosts the Manchester Mirror. That technical issue has […]
