WEDNESDAY, July 3 — As the City Council prepares to weigh in on a resolution calling for the preservation of old Eastern High School, Lansing Mayor Andy Schor said today he supports “any …
TUESDAY, July 2 — The Lansing City Council is expected to vote next week on a resolution backing an effort to convince University of Michigan Health-Sparrow to preserve the old Eastern High …
FRIDAY, June 21 — Alumni of old Eastern High School, eastsiders and preservationists have formed a committee to work with the University of Michigan Health–Sparrow to ensure the …
FRIDAY, May 17 — The British Broadcasting Corp. will bring its “World Questions” program to Lansing June 4, when local panelists are set to debate questions on national issues …
FRIDAY, March 1 — Lansing Mayor Andy Schor appears inclined to remove or sharply reduce the islands from a stretch of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard Jr. despite objections from residents. …
TUESDAY, Nov. 7 — A GMC Suburban parked in the parking garage at Sparrow Hospital on Michigan Avenue in Lansing became a makeshift emergency labor room last week for the birth …
SUNDAY, Oct. 22— Business exntrepreneur Michael Doherty is in Ingham County Jail after being arraigned Saturday on 10 felony counts of cyberstalking Mayor Andy Schor and others. Doherty was taken into custody Friday on charges of aggravated cyberstalking and using a computer to commit a crime, Lansing Assistant Police Chief Robert Backus said. 54-A District Judge Cynthia Ward set $125,000 bail and required a GPS tether, psychological evaluation and no contact with the victims listed in the complaint, Backus said. He didn’t release the names of the alleged victims, but Schor confirmed he was among them. Backus said they received “thousands” of text messages. Doherty’s marijuana manufacturing businesses, MD Industries LLC and Rehbel Industries LLC, collapsed under $12.5 million in debt and were placed in receivership last year. In a court hearing last April, 30th Circuit Judge Joyce Draganchuk sentenced him to 93 days for criminal contempt after he belligerently accused her of “corrupt and and unacceptable actions.” The hearing was on a motion by attorney John Polderman, the court-appointed receiver, that sought criminal contempt charges against Doherty. Polderman’s motion said Doherty had harassed a title agent who oversaw the transfer of MD Industries property, had sent “veiled threats” by email, harassed attorneys and others involved in the case and sent inappropriate emails to people involved. After serving his sentence in Ingham County Jail, Doherty resumed sending emails to some earlier recipients but broadened his list to include others. (Among his targets was Berl Schwartz, editor and publisher of City Pulse. One of the text messages for which he was arrested included a photo of Schwartz and said beneath it: “These idiots will get theirs too.” In other email, Doherty wrote: “Your entire Firm is going down over this as we speak. Can’t perform Domestic Terrorism and get away with it the Court of Law.” The gist of Doherty’s complaint was that City Pulse was failing to report on “corruption” by Polderman, Draganchuk and others. (City Pulse first reported on Doherty in 2020 in a cover story after he purchased the old John Bean factory and set up his manufacturing operation. It published several stories this year and posted an exclusive video of the hearing at which he was sentenced for contempt.) Doherty’s next scheduled court appearance is Nov. 2 before Ward, Backus said.
TUESDAY, Sept. 19 — The “President’s Own” U.S. Marine Band, a 135-member emsemble that turned 225 years old this year, will present a free performance at the Wharton Center …
MONDAY, Aug. 7 — Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin was one of only two Democrats to vote for a Republican measure widely seen as targeting the potential display of gay Pride flags at military …
Ken Beachler, the founding executive director of the Wharton Center for the Performing Arts and a leading member of the Lansing theatrical community, has died. He was 87. The cause of his death …
