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 […]
Kiwanis Seeks Volunteers & Donations for Crazy Cash/ Tickets Still Available!
Kiwanis is seeking help to help make its 2016 Crazy Ca$h, coming up on the evening of Saturday, March 5, 2016 a success. It will take 90 volunteers to run this event, which has raised more than $250,000 for organizations in Manchester over the last 16 years, and that mean helps from all over the community. There will […]
Kiwanis & Key Club Requesting Donations of Travel-Sized Toiletries
Manchester Kiwanis and Key Club are working together this month to create blessing bags. Blessing bags are small bags filled with travel size toiletries given to the homeless. They are looking for donations of any new/unused toiletries including hotel shampoos, lotions & soaps. Other possible items include socks, small packets of tissues, hand sanitizer, chapstick, […]
Organizations Needed to Adopt Stretches of County Roads
Do you have a favorite stretch of a paved county road here in the Manchester area? Now you and your organization can adopt it! The Washtenaw County Road Commission has announced the 2016 Adopt-A-County-Road Program and put out a call for volunteers to help keep Washtenaw County’s roadsides attractive for residents and visitors. Organizations who […]
MHS Students Develop & Implement MLK Day Curriculums at Middle School and High School
Last Monday, the nation observed Martin Luther King Day (MLK Day)–a federal holiday marking the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., a leader of the Civil Rights Movement who was assassinated in 1968. While many school districts close in observance of MLK Day, Manchester Community Schools chose to remain in session a half day and […]
