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WATER SAMPLING: Department of Environment, Great Lakes & Energy staff are doing their annual sampling of water quality across the state to protect human health and aquatic life and to maintain suitability for recreation. By McCOY SCRIBNER. FOR ALL POINTS.
ADOPT-A-FOREST: Every year, tons of trash is illegally dumped in Michigan’s public lands, but a state program has been running for three decades to mitigate the problem. Volunteers in the DNR’s Adopt-a-Forest program are getting into the woods to clean up public lands. By McKoy Scribner. FOR ALL POINTS.
While Congress and the White House put overturning the election ahead of COVID-19 relief, college students against across the country are waiting and struggling.
What would they do withe the money? Pay rent, pay down bills, be able to pay tuition to stay in school or get career-related exoerience.
East Lansing community members have been able to return to Bailey Park after a ribbon-cutting ceremony reopened the park on Oct. 23.
Bailey Park is north of Grand River Avenue and south of Burcham Road neighboring the Liberty Hyde Bailey Center.
East Lansing High School campus remains empty on Oct. 2020. But students may begin returning in Jan. 2021
East Lansing parents and community members finally have clarification about when students can return to in-person instruction. On Oct.
With coronavirus cases in Michigan increasing, a personal trainer at Crunch Fitness of East Lansing said it is making sure that proper measures are being taken to slow the spread.
Macy Bittner, one of the newest additions to the Crunch Fitness personal trainer team said, “I think that we are doing the most that we can and being safe in the gym especially with the 25% capacity rule,” Bittner said. “It’s really hard to come into close contact with other people in the gym because our facility is so large.”
Community members waiting to hear about a plan to return to in-person instruction at East Lansing Public Schools won’t have to wait any longer. A draft reopening plan along with health safety protocols for in-person learning was released Oct. 11.
Two public members playing tennis at an empty East Lansing High School campus on Oct. 16. The district chose to continue remote learning through the end of Oct.
Parents wondering when East Lansing students can resume in-person learning hoped to get an answer in a School Board meeting held via Zoom on Sept. 28. They were disappointed.
One was school board candidate Joshua Barber.
“I thought there would have been a plan at this last meeting,” Barber said. “It seems like we would have made some progress at this point. There’s a lot of families out there that are hurting right now and their kids are, too.”
During her report, Superintendent Dori Leyko announced that a plan would be brought to the Board Oct. 12.