http://thelansingblog.com The premier source of Lansing news online. Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:18:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://thelansingblog.com/2010/06/15/grocery-store-alert-lansings-l-l-food-centers-on-facebook-and-twitter-with-specials/ http://thelansingblog.com/2010/06/15/grocery-store-alert-lansings-l-l-food-centers-on-facebook-and-twitter-with-specials/#comments Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:50:39 +0000 Wes Thorp http://thelansingblog.com/?p=1830 Maybe you’ve stopped the paper because of the economy and don’t see the grocery store circulars with all the specials.  Well, Lansing’s L & L Food Centers are on Facebook and Twitter to help you out.  Through these two channels, they give special coupons, publish the sales circulars and talk about sales items.  Give it [...]

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]]> http://thelansingblog.com/2010/06/15/grocery-store-alert-lansings-l-l-food-centers-on-facebook-and-twitter-with-specials/feed/ 0 http://thelansingblog.com/2010/06/04/sugar-shack-alert-chocolate-cupcake-with-bacon-crumbles-comes-to-lansing/ http://thelansingblog.com/2010/06/04/sugar-shack-alert-chocolate-cupcake-with-bacon-crumbles-comes-to-lansing/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:19:25 +0000 Wes Thorp http://thelansingblog.com/?p=1767 The Sugar Shack Bakery at 2315 E. Grand River Ave. in Lansing is sharing new photos of their crafted cupcakes for the summer months.  They are of a quality worthy of any magazine foldout  where readers have a developed sweet tooth.  For more, check the Shack’s Facebook Fan Page. Check this chocolate cupcake with bacon [...]

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]]> http://thelansingblog.com/2010/06/04/sugar-shack-alert-chocolate-cupcake-with-bacon-crumbles-comes-to-lansing/feed/ 0 http://thelansingblog.com/2010/03/08/are-the-pancakes-at-sawyers-in-lansing-as-good-as-they-look/ http://thelansingblog.com/2010/03/08/are-the-pancakes-at-sawyers-in-lansing-as-good-as-they-look/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:21:34 +0000 Wes Thorp http://thelansingblog.com/?p=1086 I’ve driven by Sawyer’s Gourmet Pancake House on the corner of Pine and Saginaw in Lansing, but I have never eaten there.  After watching their YouTube video about their restaurant, I have to admit I can’t wait.  How did I miss this place?  Check their video and their online menu. Any reaction?

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]]> http://thelansingblog.com/2010/03/08/are-the-pancakes-at-sawyers-in-lansing-as-good-as-they-look/feed/ 6 http://thelansingblog.com/2010/02/03/pistol-toting-patrons-at-ponderosa-on-south-cedar/ http://thelansingblog.com/2010/02/03/pistol-toting-patrons-at-ponderosa-on-south-cedar/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:25:55 +0000 Wes Thorp http://thelansingblog.com/?p=768 Check out this WILX.com story about a group of pistol-toting patrons trying to hold a meeting at the Ponderosa Restaurant last Saturday afternoon.  The customers with pistols openly showing in their holsters had legitimate open-carry permits to carry the weapons.  Nevertheless, the Lansing Police Department was called to sort out the situation.  No arrests were [...]

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]]> http://thelansingblog.com/2010/02/03/pistol-toting-patrons-at-ponderosa-on-south-cedar/feed/ 3 http://thelansingblog.com/2010/01/07/our-review-biggbys-skinny-skinny-mocha-mocha-for-two-weight-watchers-points/ http://thelansingblog.com/2010/01/07/our-review-biggbys-skinny-skinny-mocha-mocha-for-two-weight-watchers-points/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:54:51 +0000 Wes Thorp http://thelansingblog.com/?p=574 PLEASE NOTE: For a video review, click in the multi-media box on the top right. I forgot the $1 off coupon before we went to Biggby’s to satisfy our taste for a sweet, chocolate coffee drink.  We’ve always gotten just coffee before, but Bob Fish, Biggby’s co-founder, convinced me to step-out by trying their “skinny, [...]

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]]> http://thelansingblog.com/2010/01/07/our-review-biggbys-skinny-skinny-mocha-mocha-for-two-weight-watchers-points/feed/ 2 http://thelansingblog.com/2010/01/04/would-you-be-more-apt-to-buy-a-biggbys-skinny-skinny-mocha-mocha-if-you-could-count-ww-points/ http://thelansingblog.com/2010/01/04/would-you-be-more-apt-to-buy-a-biggbys-skinny-skinny-mocha-mocha-if-you-could-count-ww-points/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:00:14 +0000 Wes Thorp http://thelansingblog.com/?p=543 During these grey winter Lansing (MI) days I got to the Biggby’s on Waverly Road quite often for a hot coffee and the smiling, friendly atmosphere.  I really like the Michigan Cherry coffee and a few of the others.  But . . . I don’t order the special drinks with chocolate, sugar, syrup or any [...]

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]]> http://thelansingblog.com/2010/01/04/would-you-be-more-apt-to-buy-a-biggbys-skinny-skinny-mocha-mocha-if-you-could-count-ww-points/feed/ 2 http://thelansingblog.com/2009/06/13/neighbors-and-businesses-fighting-new-liquor-store-on-mlk-and-holmes-rd/ http://thelansingblog.com/2009/06/13/neighbors-and-businesses-fighting-new-liquor-store-on-mlk-and-holmes-rd/#comments Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:47:58 +0000 Wes Thorp http://thelansingblog.com/?p=254 Southside Lansing (MI) residents expressed concern Saturday about construction and opening of a new liquor store at the northeast  corner of Martin Luther King and Holmes. The issue came up during Third Ward Council-member A’Lynne Robinson’s monthly “Second Saturday” meeting with constituents.  The meeting was held in a meeting room of the yet-to-be opened Southside [...]

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]]> http://thelansingblog.com/2009/06/13/neighbors-and-businesses-fighting-new-liquor-store-on-mlk-and-holmes-rd/feed/ 1 http://thelansingblog.com/2009/04/04/two-downtown-lansing-mi-stores-find-they-need-license-to-go-out-of-business/ http://thelansingblog.com/2009/04/04/two-downtown-lansing-mi-stores-find-they-need-license-to-go-out-of-business/#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:04:02 +0000 Wes Thorp http://thelansingblog.com/2009/04/04/two-downtown-lansing-mi-stores-find-they-need-license-to-go-out-of-business/ Lots of questions arise from two downtown Lansing (MI) businesses closing down, a Dollar store and a Hallmark card shop. Lansing State Journal columnist John Schneider writes about how the two businesses were told by the city of Lansing that they needed to buy a $50 license before they could have a going out of [...]

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]]> http://thelansingblog.com/2009/04/04/two-downtown-lansing-mi-stores-find-they-need-license-to-go-out-of-business/feed/ 0 http://thelansingblog.com/2009/03/24/lansings-mi-principal-shopping-district-psd-website-says-its-unsafe-to-visit/ http://thelansingblog.com/2009/03/24/lansings-mi-principal-shopping-district-psd-website-says-its-unsafe-to-visit/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:17:55 +0000 Wes Thorp http://thelansingblog.com/2009/03/24/lansings-mi-principal-shopping-district-psd-website-says-its-unsafe-to-visit/ This is what I saw after trying to visit the website for Lansing’s (MI) Principal Shopping District. The page was linked to a box on a district e-mail where I signed up to subscribe to e-mails promoting downtown happenings. Will this affect computers with malicious code? Does the PSD know that their website is under [...]

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]]> http://thelansingblog.com/2009/03/24/lansings-mi-principal-shopping-district-psd-website-says-its-unsafe-to-visit/feed/ 0 http://thelansingblog.com/2009/02/27/think-about-this-when-you-get-your-drive-thru-coffee-this-morning/ http://thelansingblog.com/2009/02/27/think-about-this-when-you-get-your-drive-thru-coffee-this-morning/#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:18:42 +0000 Wes Thorp http://thelansingblog.com/?p=104 The Lansing State Journal’s columnist John Schneider somedays makes buying this Gannett paper worthwhile.  Today’s column about ordering coffee at a drive-thru at McDonalds in Charlotte just south of Michigan’s Capital City make’s the point. Charlotte is a small bedroom community just south of Lansing where the McDonalds has a strong presence and serves as [...]

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