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22 Directory Design, Layout, & Published by Heartland Marketing Inc. 1310 El Camino Drive Pekin, IL 61554 Phone: 309.349.3282 Fax: 309.349.3484 517-231-8180 www.heartlandmarketinginc.com LOUSCUTTINGEDGE.COM 2018 Jackson/Ingham Counties, MI Community Guide | 3 INGHAM COUNTY is a county located in the state of JACKSON Michigan. The county seat is Mason. Lansing, the state capital of Michigan, is located within the county, and is the only state capital located in a county that is not also its seat of government. The county is home to Michigan & INGHAM State University, Lansing Community College, and the COUNTIES Class A minor league baseball team Lansing Lugnuts. Ingham County is included in the Lansing-East Lansing, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is considered to be a JACKSON COUNTY is a county located part of Mid Michigan. Jackson County in the state of Michigan. The county seat 158,640 is Jackson. The county was set off in Ingham County was established by an act of the CITY POPULATION 1829 and organized in 1832. It is named Jackson 33,534 Michigan Territorial Legislature on October 29, 1829, from for U.S. President and Michigan Center 4,701 portions of Shiawassee County, Washtenaw County and Vandercook Lake 4,638 considered to be one of Michigan’s unorganized territory. It was attached for administrative Spring Arbor 2,812 “Cabinet counties”, named for members purposes to Washtenaw County until 1838 when county Brooklyn 1,236 of Jackson’s Cabinet. Grass Lake 1,236 government was established for Ingham. Napoleon 1,193 Concord 1,056 Jackson County comprises the Jackson, The county was named for Samuel D. Ingham, the Vineyard Lake CDP 992 MI Metropolitan Statistical Area. Springport 775 U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Andrew Parma 767 Jackson, making Ingham one of Michigan’s so-called The Jackson County Courthouse was Cement City 491 Cabinet counties. Hanover 434 designed by Claire Allen, a prominent southern Michigan architect. Jackson Ingham County County is also home to the Michigan 292,427 Whitetail Hall of Fame. L ansing 117,289 East Lansing 50,938 Spend the weekend in Jackson, Michigan Holt 25,238 Okemos 23,418 and you’ll feel like it was made just for Haslett 20,014 you. We are buzzing with music, art, Mason 8,531 Williamston 4,047 breweries, wineries, food, festivals, nature Leslie 1,836 and history, combined. Stockbridge 1,360 Webberville 1,329 Dansville 584 For more information please visit www.cityofjackson.org and www.ingham.org

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Whether you know it or not, you’ve Now named Under the Oaks City County Park, also known as use, it was active and inhabited until addition to six galleries, this museum been staring at Jackson history Park, this historic hotspot has Cascades Park. 2007. For a taste of what modern, feature a 150-year-old log cabin, as long as you’ve had American been visited by politicians for over everyday prison life is like (without schoolhouse, doctor’s office, print a sentence), it doesn’t get more shop, country store, wood shop and dollars in your wallet. Jackson was a century. President Taft visited in HISTORY YEAR ROUND authentic than visiting Cell Block 7: farmhouse. founded in 1829, dedicating its 1910 to designate the site, President The first Civil War volunteer regiment Michigan’s Prison Museum. name to the soon-to-be star of the Eisenhower visited in 1952, and in Michigan came from right here in Jackson, and several spots around SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE $20 bill, President Andrew Jackson. President Nixon liked it so much, town reflect invaluable reminders of TAKE A STEP BACK IN TIME Jackson’s museums are as diverse Originally named “Jacksonopolis,” he stopped by twice — once the history that followed. It’s no secret that Jackson history as its history, from Cell Block then “Jacksonburgh,” then finally as Eisenhower’s vice president has played a major role in the 7 Michigan’s Prison Museum good old “Jackson,” our city wasted and again during his presidential JACKSON HISTORIC PRISON TOURS development of the region and the within an active compound to the no time leaving an impression on campaign. Most recently, GOP Take The Original Jackson Historic state. From the first state prison Whitetail Hall of Fame Museum’s both state and national history. It nominee John McCain paid a visit as Prison Tours. Walk the “Old Prison” to what was once the largest stop 50 record buck racks on display. was the birthplace of the Republican he campaigned through the Midwest. grounds within 25’ high, imposing on the Detroit-to-Chicago rail line, Gaze up at the cosmos under Hurst Party and represented a turning point Regardless of your place on the stone walls resembling an old castle. little pieces of Michigan history are Planetarium’s 30-foot dome or gaze in the events leading up to the Civil political spectrum, you’ll be in pretty The remaining huge building, once waiting to be uncovered within the down at Ye Ole Carriage Shop Auto city’s museums and historic homes. Museum’s seriously sleek display of War. Michigan even selected Jackson famous company. Michigan’s first penitentiary cellblock, 60-plus classic cars. Musicians and to house its first state prison in 1839, is now converted into the Armory Arts Step inside one of Jackson’s music lovers will appreciate Conklin Explore the pivotal role that Jackson Village. This is the only old prison in just two years after joining the Union. preserved properties and experience Reed Organ & History Museum, played in the anti-slavery movement the world re-purposed as a residence Museums, monuments and historic a time before cars, technology, where over 100 fully restored of the 1850s, leading up to four years with a focus on the arts - a unique buildings pepper the city, harboring and almost every convenience we antique organs are on display — of American civil war. From striking blend with prison past. Live guides stories and artifacts that are waiting now take for granted. Costumed some dating back over 150 years. monuments and locations to widely share captivating tales of crime, to be discovered. guides lead the way on a tour of Jackson’s newest additions in attended events that continue to corruption, and reform. Three tours the Waterloo Farm Museum and Grass Lake are the Michigan Military honor an undeniable impact, the are offered in accordance with group its 10-room farmhouse, while the Heritage Museum which recounts On July 6, 1854, over 1,000 people stories of the Civil War hold a special size and your available time. Dewey School Museum close by the war stories of the average Joe gathered in a Jackson hall in protest significance within Jackson’s heart. of a recent slavery expansion CELL BLOCK 7 paints a picture of a mid-1800s and Jane from Michigan. Then, stop school day. The Mann House and over to the Lost Railway Museum, act. The hall’s spatial limits and In honor of the area’s widespread Visit Cell Block 7: Michigan’s Coe House Museum both provide where they document the history of poor ventilation weren’t exactly history, the Jackson Civil War Muster Prison Museum. Cell Block 7 was a snapshot of the late 1800s within Jackson’s trains and railways, which accommodating in the middle of a was started in 1984. It still runs every the largest block within the State striking Victorian exteriors. Stroll once featured one of the busiest summer, featuring more than 1,500 Prison of Southern Michigan or “New Michigan summer. So they moved the through the Ella Sharp Museum and stops in the state! reenactors and 30,000 spectators. Prison” with 516 cells and served meeting to a park, where a group of see what several aspects of daily life Visit a re-creation of the original for many years as the Reception party candidates was designated and were like during the Civil War era. In village of Jacksonburgh, watch an and Guidance center for the Lower would see sweeping victories later Peninsula. Today, Cell Block 7 is a that year. Thus, the first Republican artillery “night fire,” and enjoy live period music at this annual summer one-of-a-kind prison museum inside convention was held — and the tradition in Sparks Foundation an operating penitentiary. Although Republican Party was born. this wing of the prison is no longer in For more information please visit www.experiencejackson.com

6 | 2018 Jackson/Ingham Counties, MI Community Guide 2018 Jackson/Ingham Counties, MI Community Guide | 7 Ingham County Lansing LANSING’S HISTORY LANSING TODAY The area that is now Lansing was The sleepy settlement of fewer than to constant political wrangling, the MSU – 5,400 of which are Chinese. 1.45 inches of precipitation; with 3.60 been preparing servant-leaders since originally surveyed in 1825 in what 20 people would remain dormant until Michigan House of Representatives Our central location in the state of inches, June is the wettest month. 1949. was then dense forest. There would the winter of 1847, when the state privately chose the Township of Michigan and the Midwest offers Snow falls from late November into easy hub-n-spoke tours of the rest of late March, accumulating an annual Michigan State University be no roads to this area for decades constitution required that the capital Lansing out of frustration. When Michigan/Midwest, making Greater average of 48 inches of total snowfall Founded in 1855 as an experiment to come. be moved from Detroit to a more announced, many present openly centralized laughed that such an insignificant Lansing the perfect starting point for each year. in higher education focused on an American Midwest adventure. Our advancing new fields of scientific study In the winter of and safer settlement was now the capital city of location in Michigan. Two months later, Governor community offers big city amenities A HIGHER EDUCATION and extending the promise of higher 1835 and early the interior William L. Greenly signed into law the and small town charm set amid a While Greater Lansing is best education, Michigan State University 1836, two brothers of the state. act of the legislature, officially making buzzing big Ten campus. Start your known as the home to Michigan has been advancing knowledge and from New York Many were Lansing Township the state capital. American adventure here, in Greater State University, the region boasts a transforming lives through innovative plotted the area concerned Lansing Michigan! number of higher learning institutions. teaching, research, and outreach for now known as REO about AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS Browse the selection below to learn more than 150 years. MSU enrolls Town just south of Detroit’s Today, Lansing is home to the Capitol more. more than 46,000 students in 200 downtown Lansing close Building and the Michigan State programs of undergraduate and and named it proximity Spartans but those are not the only Davenport University graduate study, and its 17 degree- “Biddle City.” All of to British- things to be proud of within the Capital Founded in 1866, Davenport is a granting colleges attract scholars private, nonprofit university serving this land lay in a controlled City. about 7,500 students at campuses floodplain and was Canada, across Michigan and online. With underwater during which had • Ranked #50 Out of Top 150 Places captured to Live tuition among the lowest of all private the majority of the Detroit in universities in the state, Davenport year. Regardless, the War of • 16th Brainiest City by The Atlantic provides high academic quality, the brothers went 1812. The Cities Place Publication small class sizes, conveniently back to New York, United States had recaptured the city RESTAURANTS & MORE located campuses, faculty with real- specifically Lansing, New York, to sell in 1813, but these events led to the dire • Nation’s Top 10 Best Cities for Young Whether you’re looking for a place to world experience and more than plots for the town that did not exist. need to have the center of government Adults by Kiplinger watch the game or trying to find the 60 dynamic undergraduate and They told the residents of Lansing, New relocated away from hostile British best burger in town, Greater Lansing graduate programs addressing York that this new “city” had an area Territory. In addition, there was also • Newsweek Ranks East Lansing and has got you covered. From trendy in-demand careers in business, of 65 blocks, contained a church and concern with Detroit’s strong influence Okemos High Schools Among the microbreweries to down-home pubs, technology, health professions and from around the world who are you’re sure to find the food, drink and urban education. interested in combining education also a public and academic square. A over Michigan politics, being the Best in the Nation fun you crave! with practical problem solving. With group of 16 men bought plots in the largest city in the state as well as the Great Lakes Christian College more than 465,000 alumni worldwide, nonexistent city and, upon reaching capital city. INTERNATIONAL VISITORS We are a friendly, diverse Midwestern THE WEATHER IS JUST RIGHT A four-year, accredited Christian MSU is recognized as a major public the area later that year, found they had THE STATE CAPITAL destination that offers both “All- Lansing has four distinct seasons. On college, located on Lansing’s west university with global reach and been scammed. Many in the group too During the multi-day session to American” flair and International average, the coolest month is January, side in Delta Township specializing extraordinary impact. disappointed to stay ended up settling determine a new location for the state flavor. We are home to Michigan with temperatures ranging between in the training of students for around what is now metropolitan capital, many cities, including Ann State University which provides 13.9°F - 29.4°F. The warmest month church-related careers. A Bachelor For more information please visit Lansing. Those who stayed quickly Arbor, Marshall and Jackson, lobbied the backdrop for world cultures is July, with temperatures ranging of Science degree is offered in ten www.lansing.org renamed the area “Lansing Township” in hard to win this designation. Unable to converge. Currently over 7,200 between 58.4°F - 82.1°F. February is Christian-based majors along with honor of their home village in New York. to publicly reach a consensus due International students are enrolled at the driest month in Lansing, with only two associates degrees. GLCC has

8 | 2018 Jackson/Ingham Counties, MI Community Guide 2018 Jackson/Ingham Counties, MI Community Guide | 9 An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Leoni An unincorporated community and census-designated Township of Jackson County in the U.S. state of Michigan. place in Summit Township, Jackson County, Michigan, United States. Michigan Center was platted as “Michigan Centre” in 1837 by Abel Fitch and Paul Ring, although there were settlements in the area from The community is in central Jackson County, in the at least 1834. The name was presumably derived from the proximity to the Michigan Meridian which divided the state into eastern and western eastern part of Summit Township. It sits on the eastern portions for surveying. The community is not close to any sort of side of Vandercook Lake, a water body on the Grand geographical center of the state. Fitch became the first postmaster in 1838. River. Part of the community is bordered to the north by the city of Jackson, the county seat. U.S. Route 127 Michigan Center began developing as a mill town on a tributary of the forms the eastern edge of the CDP; the highway leads Grand River. There was a station on the Michigan Central Railroad. north 6 miles (10 km) to Interstate 94 northeast of However, nearby Jackson rapidly outpaced Michigan Center, which has since become a bedroom community to the city of Jackson. Jackson and south 24 miles (39 km) to Hudson.

Brooklyn (formerly Swainsville) is a village in Jackson County of the U.S. state of Michigan. An unincorporated community and census-designated place within It is located just off U.S. Highway 12 (formerly US 112) in Columbia Township. Spring Arbor Township, Jackson County, in the U.S. state of Michigan. There is a post office in Spring Arbor with ZIP code 49283 that serves an Brooklyn is located in a portion of central lower Michigan known for its lush, rolling area larger than the CDP, but smaller than the township. Spring Arbor green landscapes in the Irish Hills area of which contains scenic lakes Township, which includes the community and surrounding area. surrounding Hayes State Park and Cambridge Junction Historic State Park which adjoins the Michigan International Speedway. The area was primarily a summer vacation spot Spring Arbor is the home of Spring Arbor University, a liberal for residents of metropolitan Detroit who owned cottages near lakes in the area. With the arts university affiliated with the Free Methodist Church. nearby additions of Interstate 94 in the late 1950s and Michigan International Speedway in the late 1960s, Brooklyn established a year-round population. This city is also 14 miles (23 km) southeast of Jackson, 37 miles (60 km) southwest of Ann Arbor and 56 miles (90 km) southeast of Lansing.

10 | 2018 Jackson/Ingham Counties, MI Community Guide 2018 Jackson/Ingham Counties, MI Community Guide | 11 A city in the U.S. state of Michigan directly east of Lansing, the state An unincorporated community within Delhi Charter capital. Most of the city is within Ingham County, with the rest in Clinton Township, Ingham County in the U.S. state of Michigan. County. East Lansing has expanded its borders through the use of 425 Agreements. The city is currently in three 425 Agreements with Bath The first permanent settlers of Delhi Township, John Township, DeWitt Township, and Meridian Township, and has effectively Norris and Fred Luther, arrived in 1837. In 1850, 402 added thousands of acres of land to its border. It is best known as the settlers resided in the township. By 1857, Delhi Center home of Michigan State University. (now Holt) had a post office, hotel, tavern, and several other businesses. The post office at Delhi Center was Michigan State University was founded in 1855 and established in what renamed “Holt” in 1860 to prevent confusion with is now East Lansing in 1857. For the first four decades, the students and Delhi Mills in Washtenaw County. Joseph Holt was the faculty lived almost entirely on the college campus. A few commuted from U.S. Postmaster General during that time. Lansing, and that number increased when a streetcar line was built in the 1890s, but there were few places to live in the then-rural area surrounding the campus.

An unincorporated community in Meridian Charter Township, An unincorporated community in Ingham County in the U.S. state of Michigan. Ingham County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The nickname of the Haslett is most notable for being the home of Lake Lansing. The lake is approximately school’s sports teams is the Chiefs. 500 acres (2.0 km2) in size and features two public parks, allowing access to beaches, fishing, and a boat launch. The Michigan State University Sailing Club and Lansing The settlement of Hamilton was founded in 1839 by Freeman Bray as Sailing Club are located on Lake Lansing. From 1934 until 1974, an amusement park a trading point with the surrounding Ojibwe people and as a farming operated near the lake and featured a wooden roller coaster at the site that is now Lake community. In 1859, one year following the death of Chief John Okemos Lansing Park South. In 2007, Business Week ranked Haslett 42nd on their list of (on whose treaty lands the community was built), the area was “Best Places to Raise Your Kids”. renamed to honor the Native American chief. “Okemos” is from the Ojibwa ogimaa “chief” plus -s, the diminutive, thus “little chief”.

It was originally a farming community, but has been entirely absorbed as a Lansing suburb, and is a popular residence community for employees of Michigan State University.

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For more information please visit www.experiencejackson.com and www.lansing.org 16 | 2018 Jackson/Ingham Counties, MI Community Guide 2018 Jackson/Ingham Counties, MI Community Guide | 17 DID YOU KNOW? the sights DISCOVER Law Abiding Citizens Live In Prison Cells... Once the world’s largest walled prison, Michigan’s of First State Prison is now Armory Arts Village, a com- munity of galleries, workspaces, and apartments. While this historic site has transformed into a vibrant neighborhood, tours are available from Jackson Historic Prison Tours for anyone who’s interested in learning about its controversial past. Get a first-hand look at the former prison’s amazing architecture and eerie basement (formerly solitary confinement), and peek into a current resident’s living space (a loft apartment that was once 36 cell blocks). From in- dustrialism to rehabilitation, the influence this land- mark has on Jackson’s history is remarkable (and not to be missed). www.michigan.org

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2019 MIDWEST OPEN ICE SUGARING & SHEARING FESTIVAL MIS BACKYARD HOCKEY MICHIGAN MADE: County Courthouse, MI FRAMING DEVICE: A PLAY IN ONE FISHING TOURNAMENT MARCH 25, 2018 | 12:00 PM-4:00 PM TOURNAMENT 2019 2018 HOLIDAY EXHIBITION Phone: 517-676-1046 ACT JANUARY 27, 2019 | ALL DAY Ella Sharp Museum JANUARY 4-13, 2019 | ALL DAY November 6, 2018 - December 22, 2018 Time: 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Venue: Eli and Edythe Broad Art 3225 Fourth St 12626 U.S. Highway 12 Price: Free Museum at Michigan State University 517-764-4440 Recurring weekly on Tuesday, Jackson, MI 49203 Brooklyn, Michigan 49230-9068 Location: Eli and Edythe Broad Art Wamplers Lake Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday (517) 787-2320 517-812-7526 Tis the season to shop small. Mason Museum at Michigan State University Location: 119 N. Washington Sq., Address: 547 E. Circle Dr. East Watch as hundreds of anglers from is home to many wonderful small Welcome Spring at the Ella Sharp Michigan International Speedway Lansing Art Gallery, MI businesses that add immeasurable Lansing, MI all over the country set up their Museum’s annual Sugaring & has created a unique experience for Phone: 517-374-6400 value to our community! On Admission: General Admission $15, shanties for the Midwest Open Ice Shearing festival, held the last everyone. January 4-6 and 11-13, Time: 11:00 AM Saturday, November 24th we Students/Seniors 65+ $10 Fishing Tournament. This annual weekend in March. Farm lane will 2019 we are hosting the Inaugural celebrate them and all they do by Contact: MSU Broad competition takes place in the be bustling with activities like sheep MIS Backyard Hockey Tournament This is exhibition will be co-curated by supporting them and shopping small. (517) 884-4800 Brooklyn-Irish Hills area, about 20 herding, sheep shearing, and and Winter Festival in the tri-oval. our Exhibitions & Gallery Sales Director miles south of Jackson. This tourney traditional craftsmanship. Stop by The tournament is a USA Hockey Katrina M. Daniels and artist Debbie WINTER FARMERS’ MARKET Peppermint Creek and the MSU is for serious fishermen: thousands the sugar bush for live sap-to-syrup Sanctioned event and will feature Carlos. Showcasing established and Date: 12/01/2018 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Broad collaborate to present Framing of dollars are waiting to be divvied demonstrations. All six galleries will three-on-three and four-on-four emerging artists, the Michigan Made: Location: Device, a genre-blurring, immersive up to the top fisherman — along with be open with free admission, and all hockey action. Holiday Exhibition offers holiday 1982 West Grand River Avenue theatrical performance inside the a $20,000 grand prize for the lucky historical buildings will be open to shopping and opportunities to support Okemos, Michigan 48840 museum! Give up your audience “observer” status and become a co- team who finishes first. visitors. THE TOWN OF CHRISTMAS 2018 makers in the local economy. The NOVEMBER 23-DEC 23, 2018 exhibit will feature artworks ranging Come in from the cold to enjoy actor and co-creator of the narrative TOMPKINS HISTORICAL ALL DAY | DAILY from fine art to small gifts including the Meridian Township Farmers’ as we tell a story of art criticism, SOUTHERN MICHIGAN STEWART FARM MUSEUM 1310 Wildwood Ave the artist’s process, and ultimately jewelry, sculpture, pottery and more. Market all winter long at the WINTER BEER FESTIVAL 10138 N. Tompkins Road Jackson, MI discover if beauty truly is in the eye Meridian Mall in the JC Penney MARCH 10, 2018 | 12:00 PM-5:00 PM Rives Junction, MI 49277 (517) 936-5051 of the beholder. WONDERLAND OF LIGHTS Corridor. Approximately 25-30 Jackson County Fairgrounds (517) 962-3398 November 22, 2018 - December 30, 2018 vendors participate each market day 200 W. Ganson St. Experience the magic of the Holidays FREE LINE DANCE LESSONS Recurring weekly on Sunday, providing a variety of home grown Jackson, MI 49202 The Tompkins Historical Stewart at the Town of Christmas. This one Recurring weekly on Wednesday Thursday, Friday, Saturday and homemade goods. 517-788-4405 Farm Museum is a short drive off of a kind attraction is a new concept Location: 1301 S. Pennsylvania Ave., through Dec 26, 2018 of M-50 in Tompkins. The Stewart for holiday entertainment in the US Venue: Tequila Cowboy Bar and Grill Potter Park Zoo, MI CHRISTMAS IN THE VILLAGE property features a farmhouse and is based on Hollywood style set and WannaB’s 8th Annual SMWBF a great day of Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM Date: 12/09/2018 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM celebrating craft beers and ciders museum, rug looms and black smith designs, creating a lifelike Christmas Location: Tequila Cowboy Bar and Location: Meridian Historical Village Grill and WannaB’s from both national and local brewers! demonstrations, a replica frontier log experience. The Town of Christmas is Potter Park Zoo is transformed into cabin, an 1880’s school house, and a a three story walk through attraction 5151 Marsh Rd Address: 5660 W. Saginaw Hwy. Food vendors, music, give aways a magical winter wonderland with Okemos, Michigan 48864 working windmill. that is all about Christmas. Peek thousands of holiday lights and Lansing, MI and beverage related items along into Santa’s world while visiting the Times: 7pm-9pm with Indoor and Outdoor tasting extraordinary visual displays Thu.– Join Santa and the Friends for an NITE LITES IS A DRIVE THRU North Pole, transcending into the Sun. 5–8 p.m. only! Kids activities, tents. You can get your tickets by old-fashioned Christmas in the CHRISTMAS LIGHT SHOW toy factory and touring the reindeer entertainment and your festive animal GEEKS WHO DRINK WEEKLY either calling the Jackson County Village! Historic buildings will be Michigan International Speedway stables. The wintery scenes will friends make this a fun event for the PUB TRIVIA Recurring weekly on open and decorated for the holidays. Fair Office at 517-788-4405 or online US-12 Entrance only, 12626 US-12, help you feel all the enjoyment of the whole family. (Lights are on Thu.– Wednesday through Dec 26, 2018 Volunteers in period dress will share at ETIX.com. Ticket prices are Brooklyn, Michigan 49230 season. Bring your camera and take Sun. nights only) Closed Christmas Venue: HopCat-East Lansing their Christmas traditions from days $30 in advance, $35 at the door or 5:30 pm - 9 pm Sunday thru Thursday all the pictures you like at the many Day. Location: Hop Cat VIP tickets in advance for $60 that 5:30 pm - 10:00 pm Friday & Saturday picture opportunities including elves, past. Gift shop will be open. Address: 300 Grove Street East Free, family-friendly event! include 1 hour early entry, extra drink Pricing: $25 per car / vehicle reindeer, sitting in Santa’s sleigh and SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY - Lansing, MI Village Buildings Open to Public tokens and a take home Sweatshirt $40 per mini-bus with Jolly Old Saint Nicholas himself. COCOA ON THE CORNER Times: 8:00 PM (Open to Public, no admission) Admission: Menu Pricing commerating the event. $40 per Limo / motor home November 24, 2018 $70 per tour bus Location: 341 S. Jefferson, Ingham Times are subject to change. (517) 816-4300

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JACKSON COUNTY Finance Department Veterans Affairs Airport James Latham, CPA 1715 Lansing Avenue Juan Zapata Phone: 517-768-6614 Jackson, MI 49201 Airport Manager Phone: 517-788-4425 Health Department Phone: 517-788-4225 Jackson County Tower Building Fax: 517-780-4719 3606 Wildwood Avenue 120 W Michigan Jackson, MI 49202 Jackson, MI 49201 INGHAM COUNTY Board of Commissioners Animal Shelter Human Resources Becky Bennett M Richard Martonchik M Jackson County Tower Building 120 Avenue Ingham County Courthouse 120 W Michigan 7th Floor P.O. Box 319, Mason, MI 48854 Jackson, MI 49201 Jackson, MI 49201 Phone: (517) 676-7200 Phone: 517-788-4340 Fax: (517) 676-7264 MORROW County Clerk Fax: 517-788-4404 Jackson County Tower Building Controller/Administrator Information Technology 120 W Michigan 120 W. Michigan Avenue Tim Dolehanty, Controller/ ROOFING INC. Jackson, MI 49201 11th Floor Administrator Jackson, MI 49201 Controller’s Office, Ingham County Department on Aging Phone: 517-788-4367 Courthouse, P.O. Box 319, SPECIALIIN IN FLAT LO SLOPE ROOF SSTES Marce Wandell Mason, MI 48854 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) 1715 Lansing Avenue Phone: ( 517) 676-7206 Fax: (517) 120 W. Michigan Avenue Jackson, MI 49202 11th Floor 676-7306 Phone: 517-788-4364 Jackson, MI 49201 Budget Office COERCIAL RESIENTIAL INUSTRIAL Fax: 517-780-4739 Phone: 517-788-4367 Hilliard Building 121 E. Maple, Mason, MI 48854 Department of Transportation Parks and Recreation Phone: (517) 676-7218 Fax: (517) REPLACEENT REPAIR AINTENANCE Jackson County Tower Building Jackson County Tower Building 676-7337 120 W Michigan 120 W Michigan Jackson, MI 49201 Jackson, MI 49201 Ingham County Clerk Prosecuting Attorney Barb Byrum Jackson County Drain Commissioner Jerard M. Jarzynka [email protected] Geoffrey Snyder Phone: 517-788-4283 Phone: (517) 676-7201 312 S Jackson Street Phone: 517-788-4398 3rd Floor Fax: (517) 676-7254 Fax: 517-780-4728 Jackson, MI 49201 Drain Commissioner Equalization Register of Deeds Office Pat Lindemann Director Ruth A Scott Amanda L. Kirkpatrick 707 Buhl Avenue 120 W. Michigan Avenue Phone: 517-788-4350 P.O. Box 220 120 W Michigan 2nd Floor 2nd Floor Mason, MI 48854 Jackson, MI 49201 Jackson, MI 49201 Phone (517) 676-8395 Phone: 517-788-4378 Fax (517) 676-8364 Fax: 517-768-6747 Sheriff Jackson County Tower Building Ingham County Register of Deeds 120 W Michigan Facilities Derrick Quinney Jackson, MI 49201 Ric Scheele (517)676-7216 Director of Fleet and Facilities Treasurer Operations Jackson County Tower Building Ingham County Treasurer Colmbia Rd ason I 120 West Michigan Ave 120 W Michigan Eric A. Schertzing Jackson, MI 49201 Jackson, MI 49201 (517) 676-7233 Phone: 517-788-4331 [email protected] www.morrowroofing.com

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