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Grand Ledge celebrated the end of its market season with a Fall Festival to help businesses react to the loss of annual events like the Island Festival and Color Cruise.
With just weeks until Election Day, the Grand Ledge clerk’s office is working to distribute and collect absentee ballots, as well as create safe polling locations for those who choose to vote in-person.
Grand Ledge Public Schools students and teachers are coping with spending the first trimester of the school year learning from home.
This week on Focal Point, we’re live from a local flower shop to see how people are sharing the love on Valentine’s Day. Over the weekend, the Lansing Women’s Expo celebrated 20 years with more than 300 attendees. The Lansing Pup House celebrates Valentine’s Day with their pets during speed dating for dogs. In entertainment, the 92nd Oscar’s had a lot of firsts and Justin Bieber returns from a four-year hiatus with a new album.
This and more on this episode of Focal Point.
It’s not every day that you get to be on TV, but three mid-Michigan towns, Bath Township, Grand Ledge and Charlotte, applied for the chance to win a town makeover from HGTV. The home renovation channel’s newest show “Home Town Takeover” is a spinoff of a current series “Home Town” that renovates businesses and homes in the hosts’ hometown of Laurel, Mississippi. The network put out a nationwide call for cities with a population under 40,000 and a downtown in need of updating. “This is a great opportunity for Bath,” said communications coordinator Tayler Reeves. “Our goal is to bring in more small businesses that would help this community and that we could help support, and this HGTV show would really help us.”
Streaming services like Netflix and Hulu — which each report tens of millions of users — are challenging the status quo and the business model of Hollywood’s film industry. But their impacts have the potential to hit closer to home, in the dwindling number of small-town theaters like those in Grand Ledge, Williamston and Charlotte.
The next phase of a project to update the streetscape in downtown Grand Ledge is in the works.
The Opera House Grand Ledge hosts about 300 to 400 weddings per year.
The Grand Ledge Police Department is working to raise $15,000 to bring a canine back to the force. On Oct.24, the Grand Ledge Police Department, in partnership with Bye Financial Group, hosted the K9 Fundraiser at Bye Financial Group. The goal of the fundraiser was to raise $15,000 to fund a new canine dog for the police department. “That’s the approximate startup cost it is going to be for us to purchase a trained canine,” said Police Chief Thomas C. Osterholzer, “but also includes the canine training and the handler’s training.”
The last time a canine was present in the city of Grand Ledge was before Osterholzer took over as police chief last October. “Grand Ledge has an incredible tradition of good canine programs here under former Chief (Martin) Underhill and we’ve been looking to restore that,” Osterholzer said.
With 716 votes and 52% of the votes, Sowle beat his challengers, Michael Coll and Councilman Michael Dean Doty, who combined had 668 votes.