The New Citizens Press

Mid-Michigan Leadership Academy welcomed the “If you give a child a book” representatives from FOX 47 WSYM.  From left to right: Lawrence “Ray” Franklin, Anthony Austin,  meteorologist Dustin Bonk from FOX 47 WSYM, Christiano Cantu, Community Affairs Coordinator Kevin Brown from FOX 47 WSYM and Charles Miller.  

J.W. Sexton freshman Colin Janak is one of twenty-three students selected for the Kakehashi Project in Japan.

  Delicious and easy to make!

 PREP TIME

Lansing Mayor-elect Andy Schor has selected an experienced slate of Lansing leaders to lead his transition team. The team, which is already hard at work, will meet throughout the rest of the year and make policy recommendations to the Mayor-elect on education, economic and business development, neighborhoods and public safety and infrastructure. Rina Risper has been chosen to serve as a Neighborhoods and Public Safety Committee Co-Chair.

 EAST LANSING, MI — Participating in Head Start may help prevent young children from being placed in foster care, finds a national study led by a Michigan State University researcher.

 Kenya Milton, Taliah “Tweety” Taylor, Magic Johnson,  Heather Taylor,   and Martha Rogers-Milton before the praise performance at Christine Johnson’s surprise birthday party in 2012.  She is the mother of Magic Johnson. 

 Dear Readers,

 Lansing Mayor-Elect Andy Schor is proud to announce the team he will be bringing to City Hall in January: Samantha Harkins as Chief of Staff; Jennifer LeFevre as Office Manager; Chelsea Coffey as Special Assistant to the Mayor, and Marilyn Plummer as Community Outreach Coordinator.