0Chris McCarty
As winter retreats and the sun shines, Kyle DeBord and Kirk Bunker take the opportunity to venture outdoors, chuck discs and make some extra cash.

The Mount Pleasant High School students make several trips a week to the disc golf course on the corner of West Campus Road and Mission Street, to the right of [...]

0Repeated vandalism did not force the peace-promoting sign in front of the Wesley Foundation, 1400 S. Washington St., to come down.

But the Mount Pleasant Zoning Board of Appeals said the controversial sign violates city law, prompting free-speech rights accusations.

The board unanimously voted “no” on Foundation Chaplain Director Eric Stone’s motion for a 60-day variance from [...]

0Chris McCarty
Former CMU Athletic Director Dan Rose never forgot names and faces, even years after first learning them — and Central and the Mount Pleasant Community soon will not forget him.

The man after which Rose Arena is named died Wednesday of congestive heart failure at Isabella County Medical Care Facility, 1222 North Drive, in [...]

0Anxiety, depression, headaches, stomach difficulties; these are just a few of the unpleasant side effects of students scurrying through the final, stress-filled weeks of the semester.

It is common during this week and next week for students to visit University Health Services and the Counseling Center with issues related to pre-exam stress, said Sarah [...]

0Greg Burghardt
Families with small children are not the only ones who should formulate plans of action for dangerous weather or fire disasters.

Students need to prepare as well.

It is important to know what to do and who to contact in case of an emergency, and students should know where to go in [...]

0Chris McCarty
The wall fell and John Carroll heard the screams, but it was not until later, when he saw the diamond ring on her left hand, that he realized who was screaming.

The former Central Michigan Life news editor heard his fiancé, Cheerie Anderson, then a Cheboygan sophomore, who became the first and only Central Michigan [...]

0Greg Burghardt

Michigan’s brightest middle-school students will have the opportunity
today to compete for the state geography crown during the annual Geographic
Bee.
Students who scored in the top 100 on a statewide geographic exam — given
to all individual middle school geographic bee champions throughout the state
— are invited to participate [...]

0Greg Burghardt
Student body presidential candidate John Kaczynski stood by his ideals despite criticism from more experienced competitors during Wednesday’s presidential debate.

Kaczynski, Mount Pleasant junior, and his running mate, George Whittaker IV, Bay City senior, suggested internal reorganization and reallocation of Student Government Association funds. They were met with criticism because they have no [...]