East Lansing
Families play key role in keeping student athletes safe
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Mid-Michigan school districts are seeing fluctuations in athletic-participation rates and injuries. A number of factors are at work.
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Election workers go all day to preserve integrity of voting
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Poll workers, who put in more than 12 hours on Election Day, work to try to restore voters’ trust in the process, which has been battered by innuendo and insinuation since last year’s election. They set up and operate new equipment and must resolve complicated issues in real time.
Construction & Development
10-story student complex with top-floor pool proposed for East Lansing
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East Lansing got a peek at plans for a 10-story student housing complex with a swimming pool 124 feet above Grand River and Bogue at the planning commission’s Oct. 25 meeting. It would include 12,220 square feet of retail space and 347 market-rate apartments.
East Lansing
Last chance for this year’s East Lansing Farmer’s Market
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This is the year’s last Sunday for the market which is unusual in that everyone who sells there is from Michigan. The market will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Even routine stops can be trouble, explain East Lansing councilmembers
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With a short agenda, the Oct. 10 East Lansing City Council meeting lasted only about 30 minutes. That made time during public comments to talk about why two police officers, each with a car, might be seen at even an apparently mundane incident.
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Register by Oct. 10 to vote on Nov. 7
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Deadline to register for the Nov. 7 election is midnight, Oct. 10. Register by filling out a voter registration form for your city, township or school district. There are multiple ways to find, complete and submit voter registration forms. In East Lansing, a big income tax issue is on the ballot. Ingham County and Mason schools have tax issues, too.
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East Lansing to reduce MIP penalties, fines in 2018
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MIP first offenders will save both $400 and a spot on their permanent record beginning Jan. 1. A state law signed in 2016 cleared the way for more lenient penalties for people convicted of being minors in possession of alcohol.