After Breonna Taylor decision, protests still outpace legislation in Michigan
by Ted Roelofs (Bridge) As protests in Michigan and across much of the country intensified this week after a grand jury did not indict police in the death of Breonna Taylor, police reform measures in Michigan remain stalled in the Legislature. A frustrated Detroit activist said he’s just about lost hope that Michigan politicians will […]
New video highlights Chelsea-Manchester shuttle service
St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea recently released a short video highlighting the new WAVE shuttle service they are sponsoring between Manchester and Chelsea, and between Stockbridge and Chelsea. The 4-minute video is available to watch here: https://youtu.be/zZIbVvgotd8. The shuttle, which is free to ride for all ages, runs between Manchester and Chelsea multiple times per day […]
MHS Volleyball: Not just a game
submitted by Wendy Gebhardt The Lady Dutch 2020 Volleyball season has been a roller coaster of changes and unknowns due the COVID-19 pandemic. All summer practices could only be held outdoors, in the sun and wind, while the team had to “invent” a new way to practice in the grass with spray painted courts. Manchester high school […]
Obituary: Doris Ethel Kittendorf
Doris Ethel Kittendorf, 90, passed away peacefully Friday, September 25, 2020 at the Chelsea Retirement Community, Chelsea, Michigan. She was born on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1929, in Wayne, Michigan to William and Edna (Waechter) Krueger. She grew up on a farm in Romulus Township. During that time she was a 4-H club leader. In […]
Manchester Community Schools Adopt-A-Highway clean-up day
submitted by Brett Whalen, Manchester Community Schools Manchester teachers next Adopt-A-Highway pickup will be Saturday, September 26 at 8 am. We will meet at Stivers Restaurant on Fletcher Road in Chelsea right off of I-94 and break off from there. We welcome all Manchester Schools employees, families, friends, and high school NHS students. If any […]
Obituary: Virginia Dzengeleski
Virginia Dzengeleski passed away at home on September 14, 2020. She was born, one of five children, to Leonard and Irene Pappas on February 24, 1952 in Detroit. Ginny, as she was known to friends and family, graduated from Cooley High School in Detroit in 1970. She married her husband James in 1974 and moved […]
Michigan’s unemployed to get $900 more. System glitches remain
by Paula Gardner (Bridge) A second round of $300 in additional weekly jobless benefits should reach laid-off Michigan workers before the end of month, while the state continues to fix glitches in its unemployment system and investigate fraud. Michigan has been approved for three more weeks of funding through the federal Lost Wages Assistance benefit […]
Coronavirus kept us home, igniting real estate frenzy in northern Michigan
by Paula Gardner (Bridge) Tad Randolph remembers the first time he saw his house near Grayling. He’d rounded a bend in the Manistee River, looked 30 feet up the bank and told his son, “Wouldn’t it be nice to have a house like that?” A few years later, he and Bonnie, his wife, were ready […]
Voting activists get twin victories in Michigan with transport, ballot cases
by Riley Beggin, Jonathan Oosting (Bridge) Two judges granted victories to voting-rights advocates in Michigan, allowing absentee ballots postmarked before the general election to be counted and blocking a law that barred groups from hiring drivers to take voters to the polls. The separate rulings, which came Thursday and Friday in closely watched lawsuits fought […]
Manchester Underground presents Diamondbuck live at The Village Tap
On Saturday, September 19, Manchester Underground will be presenting platinum-selling recording artist, Vinnie Dombroski, as Diamondbuck from 8 to 10 pm at The Village Tap, 235 East Main Street. Frontman for Sponge, Crud, and the Orbitsuns, Vinnie is bringing his brand of outlaw country with a cosmic twist to the Village Tap. This is a […]
