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Ethan is a journalism and digital storytelling major at Michigan State University focusing on broadcast, sports journalism, and documentary production. He has a passion for telling stories both through broadcast and print and hopes to work as a reporter for TV news after graduating in 2025. He is a Director of the Spartan Sports Report and work for Big Ten Student U in live broadcasting and for the MSU football team as a creative video student intern.
Ingham County ISD heard a presentation from the Early On program at their April meeting, which also happens to be National Month of the Young Child. The Early On program works with children ages three and under with developmental disabilities and other situations impacting their learning.
Ingham County’s Human Services Committee has recommended a candidate for the Racial Equity Task Force.
The committee unanimously moved to recommend Amirika Richardson to the task force at the Human Services meeting in Lansing on April 3.
Richardson was interviewed by Ingham County Commissioner and Human Services Committee Chairperson Todd Tennis during the meeting. Richardson said she wishes to bring the community together and collaborate with different organizations.
With the calendar turning to April and temperatures slowly rising, golf is returning to mid-Michigan. East Lansing’s Forest Akers opened their east course on March 22, and the west course opened April 4.
Michigan voters have more ways than ever to cast their ballots. Last November, they passed Proposal 2, a constitutional amendment that mandates early voting be offered at all polling locations. Voting accessibility was also expanded in 2018 when Proposal 3 allowed carte blanche absentee voting.Â
These new laws change how township and county clerks prepare for elections. Delta Township Clerk Mary Clark says these changes are positive because it is the clerk’s duty to ensure every voter can make it to the polls. “It’s all good because clerks are committed to people voting.
Michigan State student Ethan Hunter tells about what happened and how he and other students reacted when word went out abut the violence on campus on Feb. 13.
In Ingham County, snow lovers head for the hills and parks. With the winter’s heaviest snowfall at the end of January, the Burchfield Park sledding hills in Holt called local winter lovers to the outdoors.Â