URL: http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2010/07/aquatic_center_hosts_splash_2010 Current Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:44:19 -0400 Leslie, Mich., resident Grason Weber, 2, covers his face before walking under a structure spewing water Wednesday at the East Lansing Family Aquatic Center, 6400 Abbot Road.

DANSVILLE - What can be learned from words etched in slabs of stone placed into the ground? Local history, for one.

Rural Ingham County township officials are awaiting the outcome of a November millage proposal that seeks funding for out-county police coverage.

Hugh Jackman walks into The Depot in Leslie on Wednesday afternoon as filming on his new movie took over The Depot in Leslie.

The Eaton Rapid CERT team meets on the second Thursdays of each month at the Eaton Rapids Public Safety Building at 7 p.m. All city and township residents are invited to attend.

I could be a bit biased seeing as how I am a strong promoter of Michigan and our Michigan natural resources and our farmers.

For The Citizen Patriot With over a year until the celebration, a local committee already is planning for the 175th anniversary of the settlement of Leslie.

At tiny Liberty Township in Jackson County, the sign at Liberty General Store trumpets that it is "Conveniently Located in the Middle of Nowhere." Customers strolling uneven hardwood floors find packaged goods unlike any when the store was established in 1837, although a small side building, with hay bales stacked on the porch and feed for turkeys, ...

The children of Leslie are paying the price this week for some destructive activities performed by a few late-night hooligans.

Summer reading is well under way at the Leslie Library! Seeing the excitement in the eyes of the children who sign up is well worth the time and effort of getting them involved in the program.

Freezing temperatures and damaging thunderstorms top the list of West Michigan weather events on this day in history.