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News from Delta Township and Waverly Community Schools.
The Eaton County Board of Commissioners Public Safety Committee is exploring a county ordinance that could allow off-road vehicles to operate on county roads. County Commissioner Tim Barnes, R-Mulliken, who chairs public safety committee, reached out to Delta Township and other local governments for feedback.
Students and parents are working through a variety of new safety rules at Waverly High School connected to the coronavirus pandemic.
The first stores of the $200 million Delta Crossing development on more than 200 acres at Interstate 96 and West Saginaw Highway in Delta Township opened to shoppers on Sept. 16.
Teletherapy has become the new normal at Delta-Waverly Psychology and Counseling Associates due to safety concerns related to the coronavirus pandemic.
Hundreds of children headed back to St. Gerard Catholic School in September under new circumstances with some students returning to classrooms while other learn online.
The Waverly High School football program has changed the way they carry out practices and game days to keep players, coaches, and families healthy while playing the game they love.
The Lansing area’s League of Women Voters hosted Delta Township’s first 2020 “Making Democracy Work” meeting Jan. 29 at the township library.
League members led a discussion and provided voter guides about registration, absentee voting, redistricting and the 2020 Census.
Recently, Delta Township emergency responders became the first crews in the Lansing area to acquire a new medical device called a laryngoscope. The equipment video to help for the EMS crews insert an intubation tube to help a patient breath.
Since 1984, township staff has cleaned the digesters every five to seven years, according to digester maintenance records. In the late 1990s, plant employees started to notice more disposable cleaning wipes and debris in the digester.
Delta Township opened its Old River Trail and Delta Mills Canoe/Kayak launch to the public on Oct. 26. “It will no longer be necessary for paddle enthusiasts to travel a great distance in order to enjoy a paddle down the river,” said Brian Reed, the manager of Delta Township. The Old River Trail Pathway is about half a mile long and connects Delta Mills Canoe/Kayak Launch and Park to Hunters Orchard Park and the pathway and trails in that Park. It also connects to a pathway on Webster Road and Old River Trail Road connecting to their east/west pathway.