First signs of Fall
The first signs of autumn are popping up all around us if you know where to look! From the first small pie pumpkins on front porches to the ripe purple riverbank grapes to the bright red maple leaves on the sidewalk, it isn’t just the calendar telling us what season is just around the corner.
Farm to Table Fabulous Feast (photos)
The Farm to Table Fabulous Feast was held two Sundays ago in Chelsea. The dinner served as a fundraiser for the farmers markets in Chelsea, Manchester, Grass Lake, Stockbridge and Dexter. Manchester’s own Dawna Stockwell served as one of the chefs and Manchester’s farmers market and community garden provided some of the produce for the feast. […]
2016 Street Festival (photos)
The 3rd Annual Run Manchester Street Festival enjoyed beautiful sunny, hot (but not too hot) weather on Saturday. Starting with the 5K/10K race the event also provided shopping, food, live music, activities for kids, a classic car show, raffles, demos, a kid’s bike race, bed races, and a rubber duck race. Organizers ask that if […]
End of Summer Reading brings pizza and wise owls (photos)
The end of summer brings an end to the Summer Reading at the Manchester District Library. For all the children who finished their reading, there was an ample quantity of pizza from Ollie’s, prizes to be doled out, and a live animal encounter featuring rescued owls and raptors from the Leslie Science Center. It was, ahem, a […]
2016 Chicken Broil (photos)
Teresa Benedict, serving as spokesperson for the Manchester Chicken Broil reported that while the storm that broke right at the beginning of the Chicken Broil dampened take-out and the eat-in lines, the drive-through line kept going “fast and furious!” The last chickens were going on the fire just as the rain hit, and though it rained […]
Manchester District Library Ice Cream Social (photos)
The Manchester District Library held an ice cream social on their front lawn last Friday as a celebration of the mid-point of the Summer Reading Program.
2016 Independence Day Fireworks
While some questioned whether or not fireworks should happen because of the fire risk due to dry conditions, the fireworks went off beautifully with the Fire Department being dispatched only once–to a brush fire in Bridgewater township. The fireworks are paid for each year by the Mens Club. Donations were collected at the entrances at Carr Park but […]
