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5HF offers free Community Wellness Program
Join the Wellness Connection. Program begins May 4. Information provided by 5 Healthy Towns Foundation Beginning May 4, 5 Healthy Towns Foundation (5HF) invites you to join us for an 8-week wellness program that is accessible from wherever you are in the 5HF region. Follow along and join the conversation on 5HF’s Facebook and Instagram […]
Bridge to Wellness: 2025 Wellness Coalition survey results and insights for Stockbridge
by Matt Pegouskie Stockbridge Area Wellness Coalition (SAWC) gathered for their regularly scheduled meeting on March 17 to discuss survey results, consider several grant and sponsorship requests, and share updates from their respective organizations. The first matter of business was a presentation by 5 Healthy Towns Foundation in which representatives shared results from the 2025 […]
Active Aging: Finding the fairway and a clearer path ahead
by Alexa M. Ten Eyck There is a quiet moment on a dewy spring golf course, just before the first swing, where the path ahead feels peacefully challenging. A golfer steps up to the tee, settles in, and takes the shot. The ball lifts into the air before landing cleanly in the fairway. Every golfer […]
Positive Parenting: Why it is so hard to protect our children online?
by Kelsey Rasmussen Put bluntly: Safeguards to keep children safe online are inadequate. Dr. Lauren Girouard, an expert in digital literacy and psychology, explains this in her public lecture “Exploring Digital Privacy from a Child’s Perspective,”during the University of Michigan’s Privacy@Michigan series. Despite parents’ eagerness to protect their children online, Dr. Girouard reports 20% don’t […]
Voices of Service: UTPD Detective Brad Patton digs in on cases that require deeper investigation
by Melissa McPherson Detective Brad Patton always knew he wanted to work in law enforcement. He grew up watching The Rockford Files and Adam 12 and would listen to a neighbor’s police scanner on the weekends, imagining himself as a crime fighter. Originally from Hartland, Detective Patton worked for the Brighton Police Department for […]
Stockbridge Police Department: Service Log for February 2026
Submitted by Chief Randolph Krause on March 9, 2026 Calls For Service: 92 Service Call Types: Animal Complaint: 1 Assault: 1 Civil Disturbance: 2 Hazardous Situation: 1 Noise Complaint: 3 Police Assist to EMS/Fire: 10 Property Damage Accident (PDA): 2 Retail Fraud: 1 School Checks: 12 School Crossing Guard: 27 Traffic Stops: 5 Vacation Check: […]
Stockbridge FFA students bring robotics, research to Dominican Republic
by Melissa McPherson On Feb. 22, students from the Stockbridge Jr./Sr. High School FFA Underwater Robotics Team, escaped the frigid Michigan weather and boarded a plane to the Dominican Republic, but this was no tropical vacation. These students left on a mission that was to be focused on underwater robotics and environmental research. The first […]
Dear Gabbie…
“Dear Gabbie” is written with the simple hope of bringing a few smiles to your day and is not meant to replace the advice of professionals…especially your mom! Dear Gabbie: Twice this week, our evenings out at a restaurant were interrupted by a screaming child. In both cases, parents took the child out of the […]
Staff Spotlight: Smith Elementary math interventionist Kim Porter jumped at the opportunity to help more students
by Mary Jo David In 2023, Smith Elementary introduced SpringMath, a teacher-led program to promote math through “paired learning.” Smith’s math teachers are supported through math interventionists—like Kim Porter and her other Smith counterpart, Bonnie Rattai—who work, one-on-one, with math students to help them get on track with their math goals. Math students in grades […]
Outreach in Action
Spring has sprung; let the growing begin by Jo Mayer and Paul Crandall A cheery harbinger of spring appeared among the brown boxes and canned goods Outreach usually gets from the Greater Lansing Food Bank (GLFB): Seed packets! And bright yellow cardboard racks for displaying them! Outreach volunteers sorted the hundreds of packets and rolled […]