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Potter Park Zoo's Magellanic penguins. The zoo grew for the decades afterward until the late 1960s when the zoo began a decline from municipal neglect. However, in 1969, Jim Hough, a then-columnist of the Lansing State Journal, used his column to bring together concerned citizens and local-area residents to raise money to help revitalize the zoo.
LANSING — Michigan officials began searching for the perfect state Christmas tree in May. Six months and nearly two dozen nominations from throughout the state later, a 35-year-old, 60-foot-tall ...
LANSING — Another major road project got underway this week, making it more difficult to get across town on one of the major thoroughfares linking Lansing and East Lansing. Michigan Avenue is ...
Whereas plumcots and apriplums are first-generation hybrids between a plum parent (P. salicina [1]) and an apricot (P. armeniaca), pluots and apriums are later-generations. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Both names "plumcot" and "apriplum" have been used for trees derived from a plum seed parent, and are therefore equivalent.
An Eastern White Pine, the state tree of Michigan, is located at the east front of the building. The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Tree was planted in memory of the slain leader in 1984 to the north of the Austin Blair Monument. The oldest tree on the grounds is a catalpa on the southeast
The 60-foot tree from Clinton County is the 14th chosen from the Lower Peninsula. It will stand in front of the Capitol during the holiday season. Official Michigan Christmas tree will be arriving ...
Downtown Lansing is the central business district of Lansing, the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan.Located in the west-central part of the city along the banks of the Grand River, downtown Lansing is the primary home of the state's government and three colleges, and also contains sports facilities, museums, entertainment and retail, and a growing residential population.
The Lansing Fire Department said no one was injured — including the husky/pit mix — in the house fire at 321 W. Shiawassee St. at about 4:30 a.m. Friday. The LFD estimated the blaze caused ...