School board approves MCS 2019-2020 calendar
At the most recent Manchester Community Schools board meeting, the board approved the 2019-2020 school calendar. The calendar is:
Grand-Raisin Conservation Community educating on the local ecosystems
submitted by Sybil Kolon, Grand-Raisin Cluster Co-Coordinator If you want to help protect the natural community that surrounds you, the Grand-Raisin Conservation Community (GRCC) is ready to meet the need. The GRCC is the local affiliate of The Stewardship Network. We work in the upper portions of the Grand River and River Raisin watersheds in parts […]
WCSO honors Washtenaw Metro Dispatch
submitted by the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office Sheriff Jerry L. Clayton and the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office celebrated the second National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week last week, sponsored by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International and celebrated annually. The week honors the thousands of men and women who respond to emergency calls, dispatch […]
Public Notice: Manchester District Library
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING MANCHESTER DISTRICT LIBRARY COUNTY OF WASHTENAW, MICHIGAN ON THE ADOPTION OF THE BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2019-2020 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS IN THE LIBRARY DISTRICT OF THE MANCHESTER DISTRICT LIBRARY PLEASE TAKE NOTE that the Board of Trustees of the Manchester District Library, County of Washtenaw, State of […]
Whitmer and Republican leaders join forces to study Michigan jail reforms
by Lindsay VanHulle (Bridge) Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday launched a bipartisan effort to study Michigan’s crowded county jail system and recommend policy changes to cut costs and reduce the number of return offenders. Through an executive order, Whitmer created the Michigan Joint Task Force on Jail and Pretrial Incarceration, which is to report its findings — […]
Dana Nessel, Michigan’s attorney general, plows through Lansing
by Riley Beggin (Bridge) Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel last read Margaret Atwood’s novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” as a senior at the University of Michigan. The book’s misogynist dystopia is now close to reality, she told a room of nodding, pink-clad women at a Planned Parenthood conference in Lansing on Tuesday. If modern politics become more like […]
Shooter drills. Anxious teachers. Flying staplers. Michigan schools prepare.
The image that keeps Laura Roth awake at night is a door. It is metallic blue with a silver door knob and a poster filled with quotes from students in Roth’s seventh-grade history class at Tappan Middle School in Ann Arbor. At night, she pictures her classroom door locked during a school shooting. According to […]
Michigan doesn’t track school security – or fund safety office it created
by Ron French, Lindsay VanHulle (Bridge) How prepared are Michigan schools to thwart a mass shooting? It’s difficult to tell, because of minimal state-level regulation and reporting. No office collects or records what schools across the state are doing to thwart school shooters, according to Nancy Becker Bennett, director of the grants and community service at Michigan […]
Fixing typo, Michigan loosens U.P. brook trout limits — for now
by Jim Malewitz (Bridge) LANSING — Anglers this season may catch up to 10 brook trout per day across 33 Upper Peninsula streams stretching 1,200 miles, double the limit elsewhere in Michigan. But the relaxed regulation could be short-lived. The state’s Natural Resources Commission last week reaffirmed the 10-trout threshold for a select group of streams scattered […]
Yes, it takes billions to fix Michigan roads. No, taxpayers don’t want to pay.
by Ron French (Bridge) The question isn’t whether it will take a lot more money to fix Michigan roads. The question, according to an array of experts Thursday, is whether politicians have the will to do it. At a Solutions Summit sponsored by The Center for Michigan (the nonprofit organization that includes Bridge Magazine) and Public Sector […]
