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News Highlights from the Last 7 days: July 7

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Elderly Instruments marked in 50th anniversary Tuesday with a block party outside its headquarters on Washington Avenue in Lansing’s Old Town. The music store that started as a business in a basement in East Lansing on July 5, 1972, has 45 employees spread out over three buildings and customers worldwide. 

 

1 dead, 2 injured in Rotary Park shooting 

One man is dead and two others are recovering from gunshot wounds they received in downtown Lansing’s Rotary Park on Sunday. The deceased has been identified by Lansing Police as 42-year-old Richard Simmons. Simmons is the city’s ninth gun-related homicide in 2022. A 37-year-old woman and a 41-year-old man are also expected to survive. The LPD said there have been 32 nonfatal gunshot incidents in the city this year through June 30.  

 

Peanut Barrel sells to competitor Crunchy’s 

For 42 years, Joe and Jennifer Bell owned and operated the iconic Peanut Barrel bar and restaurant in East Lansing. But last week, they announced, was their last on duty and they were retiring. They sold the business to longtime customers Mike Krueger and John Mosholder, co-owner of another classic EL hangout, Crunchy’s.  

 

Three charged on Eaton Co. shooting 

Two men and a minor, Malachi Mcabee, 19, Damari Ware, 18, and Jaylin Leek, 16, have been charged in Eaton County district court with first-degree murder and other charges stemming from the 2021 murder of 17-year-old Anthony Alvion-lnez Davis III. The shooting happened at Hunter’s Ridge Apartments, and Davis was driven to the hospital where he died. Officials would only say Davis had been having issues with another group of youth.  

 

Zoo to get $2 million in state funds 

The Legislature approved a $76 billion budget for 2023 that includes $2 million to help Potter Park Zoo build an animal health facility that is expected to cost $4.5 million. The current facility was rated as out of date by the Associations of Zoos and Aquariums. The zoo has already raised about $1.7 million for the project with grants from the Great Lansing Visitors and Convention Bureau and the Dart Foundation. Also in the budget is $5 million for Downtown Lansing Inc. to stabilize downtown after the COVID pandemic. That’s particularly important as more workers shift to remote work options and away from office spaces. McLaren will also receive $5 million to renovate its mostly empty campus on Greenlawn to provide mental services and support for teenagers and their families. The project is expected to open in September 2022. 

 

Lansing school leader dies at 92 

Matthew Prophet Jr., Lansing’s first Black superintendent, died in California at age 92. As superintendent from 1972 to 1982, he helped lead the schools through integration. He left to become superintendent of the Portland, Oregon, school system. 

 

Strike averted at GM plant 

The United Auto Workers and General Motors averted a strike last week, narrowly beating the clock by arriving at a tentative agreement. The automaker is investing millions of dollars in the region, and billions of dollars nationwide, as it transforms its product line to all electric vehicles.  

 

MSU plans fence to prevent drownings  

Michigan State University has begun the process of installing 2,300 feet of 4-foot tall-fencing to help prevent accidental drownings in the Red Cedar River, which runs through the heart of campus. In October 2021, Grand Valley State University student Brendan Santo, 18, drowned. His body was recovered in January. The area that will be fenced off is where the banks of the river are the steepest, near Beal Street and West Circle Drive. A spokesman told the Lansing State Journal the fencing will cost an estimated $645,000 to install.  

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