Members of the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender and straight communities will march Sunday in Washington, D.C. with one demand — equal rights for LGBT people.
“We’re out here, and they need to listen to us,” said Duane Breijak, a member of the Michigan Democratic Party LGBT Caucus and Michigan organizer for the national event.

The Mount Pleasant Police Department purchased two 2010 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptors to replace older vehicles in the fleet.
The city approved the $42,484 purchase at its Sept. 28 City Commission meeting. The vehicles cost $21,242 each and are expected to arrive in 8 to 10 weeks.

Residents and visitors of Mount Pleasant looking forward to playing at Island Park’s spray park don’t have much longer to wait.

The water spray park should be completed by the end of August, said Mount Pleasant Director of Parks and Recreation Chris Bundy.

To celebrate 150 years, Isabella County has been throwing a year-long sesquicentennial celebration.

Events started in February will conclude in December.

The Sesquicentennial Committee has been planning the events for about two years and split into subcommittees to handle the many events, said Committee Member Mary Ellen Brandell.

Several new technologies have been added to Central Michigan University this year by Technology Operations to benefit staff, faculty and administrators.

They include the ability to chat with a Tech Ops producer with help on creating video and podcasts on iChat, a new content management service for Web sites called Plone and a Wiki that everyone can access and edit.

ANN ARBOR – A recent Central Michigan University graduate decided to talk to strangers and the world may be better off for it.

Brandon Doman’s result? “Don’t Talk to Strangers,” a book of journal entries collected from people on the streets of Ann Arbor over a five-day period.

Thousands of jingle bells will adorn a big tree outside Sloan Hall for a month as part of a local artist’s display.

Mount Pleasant resident and Central Michigan University alumna Ingrid Tourangeau is presenting “Tree Song,” a tribute to Gordon Matta-Clark’s piece, “Tree Dance.

The City Commission chamber was packed for Monday evening’s meeting for renaming of the city’s River Walk Trail.

As decided at the commission’s meeting on July 13, the River Walk Trail will be renamed the Gregory K. Baderschneider River Walk Trail.

Baderschneider, who died in October 2008, spent almost 30 years working for the city’s parks.