Senior Life

MSU is in the early stages of planning a multi-generational housing project that would provide living space for employees, senior citizens, and families with children. The area is in the ELPS district. Tom Oswald reports for ELi.

The Prime Time Seniors Program will be hosting its biennial rummage sale next week. Area residents can participate by donating and by purchasing items. ELi's Jessy Gregg has the details.

There was standing room only in the Glencairn Elementary School gym during Glencairn’s first Special Person’s Day. ELi's Jessy Gregg brings you the story with photos.

Places are still available in a series of focus groups run by the City of East Lansing as it works on meeting the standards to receive an "Age-Friendly" designation from the AARP. Christopher Wardell has the story.

The Hannah Community Center is on the list of possible budget cuts for Council's consideration. ELi's Jessy Gregg reports on the history of the center, what it provides and costs, and what closing it would mean.

While East Lansing’s new Comprehensive Plan has been years in the making, it looks like it may move through the final stages of approval relatively quickly in early 2018.

Sell the Hannah Community Center, parking system, and soccer fields? De-fund social services for seniors and persons with disabilities? Ask the voters for a property tax increase? Council has started talking about what to do, now that the income tax proposal has failed.

East Lansing and mid-Michigan residents can get a glimpse at the newly adapted, and historically preserved Liberty Hyde Bailey Center when the partners behind the project cut the ribbon and host an open house on Thursday, Nov. 2.

The City has received and released a financial review of the Center City District plan. With the City required to respond to it by tomorrow, what do we learn from it?

Edgewood Village Scholars Director Jonathan Rosewood has a simple message for participating students: "If you stay in the program and you finish, you're going to school.” ELi's Ann Kammerer  has the story.

City Council held public hearings on the Center City District site plan and tax plan last night, although no current plans were available. Council voted to do it all again in June. Here's what we've learned.

City Council is set to take up the controversial Center City District site plan and $55 million TIF plan this Tuesday. The project calls for private development on public land. The developers have announced they will reveal the latest version of the proposal the day before.

The State of Michigan recently amended the law to allow for the sale of alcoholic beverages at extended-care facilities, and Burcham Hills is hoping to obtain such a license.

East Lansing resident Ed Marin remembers the days when things were different (and also the same) in East Lansing. Ann Kammerer brings you the story.

A number of unanswered questions remain about the Center City District proposal as it heads towards a possible decision by City Council in just a few weeks.