Vehicle Fire in a building with the origin of the smoke Monday morning at Maaco on E. High Street

Vehicle Fire in a building with the origin of the smoke Monday morning at Maaco on E. High Street

Jackson, MI – A Monday morning vehicle fire within the fire department of a company led Jackson to E. High Street

smoke was seen about 7:30 clock on a building behind Maaco Collision Repair and Auto Painting, 2330 to E.. High Street. The auto shop used the building for storage of vehicles, Jackson said Assistant Fire Chief Steve Childs.

There were four vehicles inside the building, and it was on fire, said Childs. Heat from the fire damaged other vehicles. Smoke filled the building to cause, damage.

firefighters were quickly able to extinguish the fire.

Police closed E. High Street, firefighters, while working the scene. With a fire hydrant is located on the opposite side of the street, the firemen had to lay pipe across the road.

No one went through the hose, but the possibility is a concern for firefighters, said Childs.

“Not only does damage to our tune, but it brings us as firefighters in danger if we lose this source of water,” said Childs.

driving over a fire hose from a civil offense, and violations may be issued a ticket

– .. Contact Aaron Aupperlee aaupperl@mlive.com or (517) 262-2967

Public hearings scheduled for residents to get an opinion on Jackson Street renamed after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. expressed

Public hearings scheduled for residents to get an opinion on Jackson Street renamed after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. expressed

AP Photo / Art Museum’s Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King leading freedom demonstrators in Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. class=”photo-bottom-left”> class=”photo-bottom-right”>

Councillor Carl breeding in February, the city applied for a street name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street view. The question was referred to the Committee for the affairs of the city, the Human Relations Commission and the City Prosecutor for the 21 February meeting of the City Council designates.

Breeding

suggested in February that West Avenue and Francis Street to be renamed after King.

The Human Relations Commission will make several public hearings to hear public input on this issue. The public hearings are scheduled for:.

06.30 clock on 16 May in the City Hall, City of rooms on the second floor, 161 W. Michigan Ave

Clock 23rd 18.30 May at the Boos Center, 210 St. Gilbert

18.30 30th clock May at the King Center, 1107 St. Adrian

Peek Through Time: People still crave hamburgers and potatoes "Orange" in Hamburg Ritzee

Peek Through Time: People still crave hamburgers and potatoes "Orange" in Hamburg Ritzee

Jackson, MI – Not many restaurateurs gave a farewell party, when they sell their restaurant, but more than 150 loyal customers came to say goodbye, when Melton and Leah Bradshaw walked away from 25 years ago in Hamburg Ritzee.

The party was organized by Mona Webb, a typist in the office of county treasurer, who said he visited the small restaurant at least twice a day, according to the Citizen Patriot file.

‘s just one example of how this city love Jackson “greasy spoon” that people who visited it in 33 years.

Very often called “The Ritzee,” Lloyd D. Jenkins opened the restaurant in 1954-128 W. Michigan Avenue. in the space previously occupied by The Shoppe mother.

E ‘was a great location for people who like to remember to eat there because it employs in the heart of what was then a center was. But even better, was near the Capitol Theatre.

“Two or three times a month to go, my father and I on the east side, near where was the old A & P store on Elm Street movie and then get to Hamburg and then to go home” said Jerry Kulpinski Township of Leoni.

Kulpinski, a former Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. employee, and his wife, Judy, bought the Ritzee by Bradshaw in 1984. The Bradshaw began running in 1959 and bought the place eight years later, after the Citizen Patriot file.

The Bradshaw serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, but it was burgers and potatoes “Orange”, which claim to have been Ritzee to fame.

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Mulvaney would not reveal the secret to the orange potatoes but Kulpinski said it was a good amount of red pepper, along with some other spices to them their color.

“I kept the menu pretty much the same as Mel, but I’ve added things like homemade cake,” said Kulpinski. “I was also special offers such as golumbki.”

The restaurant was small and long, only 49 seats in the stands above. But there was a table by the window overlooking the Michigan Avenue area that many customers.

“I would take my two daughters every Saturday when they were 7 and 9, and it was still fun to hang with Dad Ritzee” said Greg Wilson, formerly of Jackson, and now Pho enix.

“We would try to get a table by the window, so the children could see the passers-by. We each get a hamburger and potatoes orange and sit back and enjoy our lunch. Then we went to the field ( LH) or Woolworth stores and go through this and then go jump on a bus and go home, “Wilson said.

It was not so relaxing for Nancy Pierce of Jackson Hicks. He was head usher at the Capitol Theatre for a while, then worked the candy counter and clean the “fat popcorn machine.” His lunch break, he always appeared next to “the best burgers in town.”

Trish O’Shea Jackson, who worked closely with First Federal Savings & Loan for 12 years, said he often took his hamburger and potatoes in an orange carrier “take out” and ate the Ritzee his desk, because there are so crowded at lunch time.

“I want to stop at Ritzee the morning for a slice of toast, or used to prepare the lunch there three out of five days, ” said O’Shea.

Jan Stevens of Jackson went on dates to her boyfriend Ritzee – who later became her husband. How many people went to Mass and then for a hamburger Ritzee.

Judy Bradley of Pleasant Lake, remembers his older brother, go to Ritzee “to find the girl.” She would walk the few blocks from the West Intermediate School to create a. Hamburgers and Cherry Coke

“It was the thing to do if you were in school,” agrees Trish Phillips of Lake Pleasant. “My two friends and I would go there at least once a week. The burgers were the best, thick and juicy, and always piled on lettuce and tomatoes. They were wonderful.”

Tidbits

Ritzee • Longtime owner Mel Bradshaw in the first hamburger in Battle Creek worked Kewpee hamburger. • Downtown Jackson

hopping during the heyday of Ritzee. There were more than half a dozen theaters and Bradshaw tells a story Citizen Patriot that all viewers of them came to Ritzee. “We are open almost 24 hours a day, seven days a week have been,” he said. While the theater and other stores in town closed, relaxed the burger business. Looked like

• Jerry Kulpinski, who bought the restaurant from Bradshaw in 1984, had to buy a restaurant in Indiana. But if the Ritzee went to the market, he bought and his wife Judy, proximity to home. They could hold only been open for three years for the pedestrian traffic so low. “We stayed open until 05 clock in the afternoon, but my car was often the only way,” said Kulpinski. He left the cafe buy Ritzee Grass Lake.

• The next man to testify was Ritzee Viaches Don, owner of the International Dog House, 800 Lansing Ave. He had successfully completed a push-cart selling hot dogs with spices in the middle of the city op erated. “I had the car a few hours or three days and did well, so I thought why not to operate from a fixed location,” said Viaches. He burned the Ritzee to make a second dog house. The lack of activity caused him to quit.

UPDATE: Sheriff investigators arrest 17 years on charges of gun brings da Vinci, threats

UPDATE: Sheriff investigators arrest 17 years on charges of gun brings da Vinci, threats

Summit Township, MI – Jackson County Sheriff’s investigators have arrested a 17-year-old man after he allegedly brought a gun Jackson and threatened vinici

​​detectives Scott Watson and Andrew Sullivan, the man arrested at his home off. A press office of the sheriff. It was taken to jail. A report will be sent to the Prosecutor for review and possible charges.

Office of the Sheriff seek immediate expenses for the internal battery, said undersheriff Chris Kuhl 04.00 clock to believe, that the police laid their hands or pushed over a former girlfriend.

sheriff’s deputies were the Da Vinci Institute at 12.20 clock sent to school on the campus of Jackson Community College is located. The 17-tear-old left the school before deputies arrived, the release said. Members were given a description of the teenager and his car. The descriptions were shared with all police units in the county.

When deputies arrived, they swept the school and the surrounding areas and searched the surrounding buildings.

was at 4 Clock in the afternoon, deputies and investigators have not found a weapon, said Kuhl. Deputies and investigators searched the man, his car and his house and did not find a weapon. The participating students believed they had seen a gun, said Kuhl.

The investigation continues.

Superintendent Sandy Maxson said a former student from an ex-girlfriend and three other students during the lunch break outside BREAK JCC Potter Center. The students quickly da Vinci and the school was put on the block.

The Jackson Area Career Center is a “soft lock down” established during the incident, said Tommy Cameron, a spokesman for the Jackson County School District. During a soft lock down the school closes its doors before, but not disabled pupils in their classes

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Only a handful of customers in Burger King when the fire broke out (with photo gallery)

Only a handful of customers in Burger King when the fire broke out (with photo gallery)

Brooklyn, MI – Only a handful of customers were inside the Burger King in Brooklyn, when a fire, the fast-food restaurant Monday afternoon damaged

The fire began before 02.30 clock and saw it. Born to the bathroom area, said Columbia Township Fire Chief Shawn Lutz.

Lutz was called to the scene believe that a patron was trapped in the bathroom.

“As soon as we arrived we saw a lot of flames and smoke coming from the south side of the building,” he said. “We have a team and confirmed that nobody was in it, so we started to clear the flames.”

A man who identified himself as the manager of Burger King in service, but declined to give his full name, there are not many customers in the restaurant at the time.

“I was working the drive-thru, when another employee came and told me that she smelled smoke,” he said. “That’s when we evacuate to patrons and other employees about parking started and called 911.

” We are very fortunate that nobody was hurt and everyone is safe. “

The investigation is under way as soon as all the” hot spots “are made, said Lutz. Crews from Cambridge, Columbia, Grass Lake, Napoleon, Summit and Liberty responded and remained on the scene together, such as 3:45

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The salon is "lunch only" after a few drives car through the front of the building

The salon is "lunch only" after a few drives car through the front of the building

Jackson, MI – Sunday afternoon, The Salon, Jacksonfamosa ice has posted a sign on the door saying “take it.”

clock at 02:47, a 80-year-old woman drove her car neldi front of the building, Jackson said Acting Fire Captain Bob Walkowicz.

workers patched the hole delcostruire Parlour on the outside, but the damage could be seen inside.

The Parlour insdie

No one was injured in the accident, said the generale manager Tom Maki.

Walkowicz said the woman driving the vehicle was trasportatoalla Allegiance Health with minor injuries.

“I just hope he’s doing well,” said Maki.

Maki said the company is waiting for the insurance stimareil cost of the damage. The strutturaha must be controlled so that the company can remain. Is

The aim of the course as normaleLunedi Parlour have said Maki. Until then invited to clientisono give an order and eat ice cream elsewhere.

Survey of the prison staff will continue to Jackson injected with insulin

Survey of the prison staff will continue to Jackson injected with insulin

BLACKMAN TWP, MI -. The Michigan Department of Corrections is still the accidental injection of insulin in 36 employees investigated in a prison in Jackson area, a spokesman said

Three employees sought medical treatment after receiving insulin instead of Monday morning. Tuberculin tests during tuberculosis in the work of G. Robert Cotton Correctional Institutions, 3500 N. Elm Road, said John Cordell, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry.

Earlier, the Michigan Department of Corrections has confirmed staff at Allegiance Health was transported and released

“There were two other people who have seen their personal physicians, as a precautionary measure, have and do not worry – for doctors apply – in this moment. ” Cordell said. The employee, who went to the hospital back to work, said Cordell.

Earlier this week, said a union official staff were not happy with how they reacted to prison officials, on learning of the error. Mel Grieshaber, Director of the Michigan Corrections Organization, could not be reached for comment Friday.

Cordell said an investigation into the incident is likely to be completed next week. It is too early to say if anyone will be punished, he said.

“At this point, it seems as though a situation where one of the medical staff were confused the drug to be used was for the TB test,” said Cordell.

“There were a few employees who provided evidence. Seems one of the other employees of the errors detected and brought to the attention of health perso nnel in the area.”

officials

investigate whether insulin properly marked, he said.

Police name woman in an accident in the early morning hours killed, investigators believe alcohol was a factor,

Police name woman in an accident in the early morning hours killed, investigators believe alcohol was a factor,

BLACKMAN TWP

, MI – A 21-year-old woman Lansing killed in an accident early Friday morning was not wearing a seat belt and may have been influenced by alcohol than they have taken a quick exit seems, reported the Blackman-Leoni Township Department of Public Safety.

Whitney Rene Jackson came north on U.S. 127 Springport Road where the speed limit is 25 miles per hour when he, the vehicle drove to the left to have the road seems, rolled twice and sat on his tires, according to a statement the department.

Jackson was thrown from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene. A 20-year-old passenger from Lansing, Raven Chapman, had minor cuts and abrasions, according to the statement. It took emergency personnel at the site, but she refused further treatment.

The passenger who was wearing a seat belt, walked to a nearby hotel to report the incident and arrived to the crash site returned, as emergency workers, reported the Ministry of Public Security.

Public Safety officers were called about 14.45 clock

Investigators await results of toxicology tests, but alcohol is believed to be a factor, Deputy Director Jon Johnston said in his statement.

The women had the Rocket Night Club 216 St. Francis in the city of Jackson, where she attended a concert to leave, according to the statement. They tried to get to Denny 2560 Airport Road, but were not familiar with the area, reported the Ministry of Public Security.

Johnston said the passenger, who did not receive a subpoena, told police the two had been drinking.

Alleged fraud ring detail seems to be "isolated incident" Wal-Mart spokesman said,

Alleged fraud ring detail seems to be "isolated incident" Wal-Mart spokesman said,

BLACKMAN TWP, MI – A spokesman for Wal-Mart recently said that police discovered fraud ring targeting has been reported in detail Jackson Area Shop

“We have no reason to believe that this is a widespread” seems to be one single case . “Problem in the stores,” Dianna Gee wrote in an e-mail.

Monday, in an investigation that began in February, attacked the police was for a total estimated value of $ 30,000 from two houses. Was arrested a 24-year-old man and the former treasurer, said Blackman, Leoni Township is responsible for public safety.

Late Wednesday morning, the protest was not planned.

The cashier and the others are of the conspiracy, and money go to fraudulent use of vouchers to the Wal-Mart, 1700 W. Michigan Avenue bilk accused. Of what investigators suspect will reach $ 100,000 in goods.

Up to seven others were charged, a Blackman-Leoni detective said before.

“We have high expectations of our members, and this naturally concerns us,” said Gee, who works at Wal-Mart’s home office in Bentonville, Arkansas “The cashier who was arre sted in the case was finished . “

The business is working with law enforcement by providing information such as transaction data and video evidence, he said.

Wal-Mart tries to develop and maintain close relationships with the police, he wrote.

> Items allegedly stolen police kept as evidence, he said. “When you are returned to us, we will determine what to do at this moment.”

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