A press conference will take place in Detroit this afternoon at which a partnership will be announced between Detroit Public Television and MSU’s WKAR-TV. A joint press release says that the partnership will "impact public television across the state." 

Just one year ago, the East Lansing community was commemorating the 60th anniversary of WKAR-TV, MSU’s public broadcasting station. As the station’s 61st birthday approaches on January 15, celebrations have fallen to the wayside and business negotiations have taken precedence.

The wait is over (at least part of it):  East Lansing Public Library (ELPL) will open its doors again on Monday, Jan. 11. The library closed in December to prepare the building for a pending renovation project.

According to a press release, “when the library reopens next Monday, the first phase of the renovation project will be underway and a third of the floor space and approximately half of ELPL’s collection will be accessible to patrons. There will also be a limited number of public computers.”

It was standing room only last night in a lecture hall in MSU’s Communication Arts and Sciences (CAS) Building for the first of two public forums held by the University to address the possible sale of WKAR-TV’s broadcasting spectrum.

Photo courtesy of Global Doing Good.

This summer, a group of East Lansing High School Spanish students will be travelling to the Central American country of Costa Rica on a service trip.

The eight-day excursion will be taken by 30 students in various grades at ELHS, and will have a main goal of constructing a house for a local family in the Sarapiqui region of Costa Rica. Students plan to fundraise together, as well as individually, for both the travel and the construction, over $2,200 per student in total.

The ripples of East Lansing Board of Education’s decision to re-open Red Cedar Elementary next fall are being felt throughout the community.

The Board now has eight months to figure out the costs, staffing and student population for Red Cedar. Several Board members expressed their concern about the cost of the plan, and indicated they are prepared to change the opening date if it becomes fiscally difficult to reopen by the fall.

Image: notecards from “True Comics” collection at the MSU Library

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