Michigan Tobacco Quitline is Offering 8 Weeks of FREE Nicotine Replacement Therapy
Are you thinking about quitting smoking? During February 2016, the Michigan Tobacco Quitline is offering 8 weeks of free nicotine replacement therapy to anyone who calls and enrolls. The number to call is 1-800-QUIT-NOW or 1-855-784-8669 (English) or 1-800-DEJELO-YA or 1-855-335-3569 (Spanish). The first call to the Quitline will last about 20 minutes. Information provided is confidential and used […]
NO PARKING East of Bridge for Beam Delivery Thursday & Friday
The Village announced tonight that on Thursday, February 11th and Friday, February 12th, 2016 there will be NO PARKING on E. Main St. from the Main Street Bridge (currently under construction) east to Beaufort St. from 9am to 5pm to accommodate the delivery of the bridge beams.
Frank’s in the Morning to Introduce the Cannoli Paczkis on Tuesday!
Jessica Bushaw, the pastry genius at Frank’s in the Morning, will be debuting a special Italian-themed paczki for Fat Tuesday this year on February 9th. The cannoli paczki will feature a traditional sweet ricotta cannoli filling, spotted with miniature chocolate chips, and will be dusted with powdered sugar and extra chocolate chips. While regular paczkis will […]
Saline Endowment Seeks Manchester Health-Related Grant Applicants
Saint Joseph Mercy Health System has put out a call to Manchester groups and schools, as well those in the Saline-area communities, to apply for grants from the Judy Ivan Healthy Communities Endowment. The fund has approximately $25,000 in total grant money available this year. Applications are due Thursday, March 31, 2016. The Endowment’s philosophy […]
Historical Society Completes First “Work Bee” at Kingsley-Jenter Home
The Manchester Area Historical Society held its first cleanup “work bee” on Saturday, January 23 at its newly-purchased Kingsley-Jenter Home, located at 302 E. Main on the downtown, “four corners” intersection. The Society completed this purchase in December, and is working to repurpose the former funeral home into its new museum, archives and research center, and […]
Sharon Township Launches New Website
Sharon Township recently launched a new website with a new web address: http://sharontownship.org. Previously, like the other townships, it used a county hosted-website that was sometimes hard to navigate. Township Clerk, Chelsea Mikel, stated on the new website that “The purpose of the new website was to make it extremely user-friendly, easy to access and find information, and to […]
Stay Off the Ice!
Due to the inconsistent weather conditions, the DNR is urging people in our area to stay off of deeper lakes, ponds and streams. Michigan’s southern half of the Lower Peninsula has experienced enough rain and warm weather to cause weak spots in various locations of ice on waterways.
Good Weather Allows Bridge Work to Continue Steadily
There’s one good thing about El Nino. With favorable weather conditions this winter, work has been able to continue on the Main Street Bridge despite delays early last fall with the state-selected contractor’s difficulty drilling in the micro-pilings. National Weather Service predictions for above-average temperatures during February and March mean that much of the structural work […]
School Building Configuration Committee Has First Meeting, Shares Information
As a result of school budget problems, the school board has appointed a committee to study how to shrink Manchester Community School costs. For more information, read this article. That committee–composed of teachers, support staff, parents, students, community members and administrators–held its first meeting last Tuesday, and the Mirror has been asked to share the following documents: […]
Manchester Girl Works to Deliver Water to Flint on Valentines Day
On the past few Valentines Days, many Manchester residents may have seen a little girl with a wagon downtown passing out valentines and cookies to everyone she meets. She is known as “Annabelle Valentine.” Like the main character of the book by which she was inspired, Laurie B. Friedman’s “Love, Ruby Valentine,” eight-year-old Annabelle Celkis has made it […]
