5 Healthy Towns wins Promoting Active Community Award
This year the Governor’s Fitness Council selected 5 Healthy Towns Foundation (5HF) as its 2016 “Promoting Active Community” Award winner. The award recognizes work in promoting infrastructure improvements, policies and programs that encourage active lifestyles. 5 Healthy Towns is the first Foundation to be honored with a Promoting Active Community Award. Five communities make up 5HF–Manchester, […]
The Brandenburg Project to bring baroque to Manchester
Riverfolk Music & Arts Organization have announced the 7th concert in the Blacksmith Shop Concert series, The Brandenburg Project! They will be performing live at The Blacksmith Shop, located at 324 E Main St., on Saturday, April 23, 2016 at 7:30 pm. The youth-led ensemble from The Community Music School of Ann Arbor’s is dedicated to learning and performing […]
April gardening advice for Manchester – 2016
by Jennifer Fairfield Manchester resident Jennifer Fairfield owns and operates the Garden Mill in Chelsea, serves on the Manchester Community Garden Committee, and volunteers with the school gardens at Klager and the MECC. As I sit here writing this, I’m listening to the frogs in my pond make an incredible racket! They have been peeping […]
Kindergarten Round-Up
Kindergarten Round Up for the 2016-2017 school year is scheduled for April 20th from 4 to 7 pm at Luther C. Klager Elementary School located at 405 Ann Arbor St. At this event you may register your incoming kindergarten student. The school will offer building tours, bus rides, give parents a change to inspect classrooms […]
Letter to the editor: 6ft fences detrimental to sense of community on Pleasant Lake
April 9, 2016 To members of the Freedom Township Board of Trustees and Planning Commission: I live on Pleasant Lake and have done so for over 20 years. I feel so fortunate to live in such a beautiful environment and have wonderful neighbors. It is a peaceful way to live and as a 77 year old […]
Community dance shakes the rafters Saturday night!
Saturday Night Dance! Manchester held its second-to-last dance of the season in the Emanuel Gym with live music by Michigan folk band Blue Water Ramblers and square, reel, circle and line calling by Banjo Jim. While organizers worried that attendance may be low because of spring break, the gym was full of more than 30 […]
Spring Scrap Metal Drive
On Saturday April 30th, from 8 am to 2 pm, the Sharon United Methodist Mission Team will conduct their annual Spring Scrap Metal Drive. Proceeds go to the Mission Team Trip and the People in Mizak, Haiti. Items can be dropped off behind the fellowship hall of the church, located on the corner of M-52 and […]
WCRC seeks August 2016 ballot initiative to fund 4 years of road repairs – but does not include Bemis Road Bridge
On Tuesday, March 1, the Washtenaw County Road Commission (WCRC) unanimously approved a resolution in support of a county-wide road funding ballot initiative. The resolution requests that the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners place a four-year, 0.5-mill road millage before the voters during the August 2, 2016 primary. WCRC estimates that the initiative would improve […]
Bus riders participate in Klager’s Walk-to-School Wednesday
Last Wednesday between 70 and 80 elementary students and adults participated in Klager’s weekly Walk-to-School Wednesday. While students who live close enough to the school to walk and students whose parents drop them off can easily participate every week, this week was special for bus riders who rarely or never have the opportunity to participate. […]
Traditions are passed on at Girl Scout tea party
Last Wednesday, the 11th graders of Manchester’s Ambassador Girl Scout Troop 41545 hosted the kindergarten and 1st graders of Daisy Troop 40673 for a tea party complete with tea, scones, and party favors. Along with it came camp songs, Girl Scout traditions and a lot of bonding. One Daisy Scout said, “the best part was getting […]
