Free Comic Book Day at the MDL
submitted by Tamara Denby, Manchester District Library May 4 is National Comic Book day! You know what that means—the Manchester District Library is celebrating. On Friday, May 3 from 3:30-5:30 pm in the Village Room, the Library will be giving away free comic books (generously donated by Vault of Midnight in Ann Arbor). Who doesn’t like free […]
Come up-right a school bus with kid power before Math & Science Night!
Two years ago, kids were able to upright a semi truck using just their own strength and pulleys. Last year kids used their strength and pulleys to defeat adults in a game of tug-of-war over a cement mixer. This, year Bill Kerns and Manchester Collision is back, and from 5 to 6 pm before Math and Science Night this […]
SRSLY Manchester students release public service announcement to curb vape use among youth
SRSLY Manchester middle and high school students recently released a public service announcement, Escape the Vape, aimed at educating their peers about potential risks and harm associated with e-cigarette and marijuana use. The PSA features facts about what has been found in vapes and what vaping can do to the body. It also points out that […]
May Library events: Book Donation Day, braided rag mats, a writers’s group and more!
submitted by Tamara Denby, Manchester District Library May has arrived and here in Michigan our thoughts begin to turn to summer. At the Manchester District Library, we’re no different. Plans for this year’s Summer Reading program are well under way. This year’s theme is “A Universe of Stories” so you can expect lots of out-of-this-world […]
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 […]
