• (Note: This is an excerpt of an email from Melissa Quon-Huber of the Averill Wood Neighborhood Association. She provides an update about T-Mobile's efforts to build a cellphone tower in our residential area.)

T-Mobile’s lawyer has filed or plans to file a law suit over the cell tower SLU denial. As I understand it, the city is not afraid of the law suit but is concerned they will lose.

In lieu of the lawsuit,… Continue

As an alternative to the traditional cellphone tower, T-Mobile has apparently proposed construction of a stealth tower at the same location as first proposed on the Grand Haven Retirement Community site which abuts Skye Road and Deerfield Avenue, according to Melissa Quon-Huber of the Averil Woods Neighborhood Association.

It would look like a huge flagpole with a ev… Continue

Somehow, I got out of the rhythm of updating this site with the latest-greatest that's happening in our Averill Woods neighborhood on the southwest side of Lansing.

Things that affect all of us and that affect our quality of life in our little corner of the world continue to happen in a major way.

That's why I'm jumping back into this blog and to this "social web" site where we can all interact about everything from the continuing saga of T-Mobile's efforts to build a cellphon… Continue

Third Ward council member Bill Matt comments about the Averill Woods Neighborhood Association cell tower news conference and rally. He also shares how he's going to vote on the T-Mobile request for a special use permit to build a cell tower at the end of Deerfield Avenue and butting up to properties on Skye Road.

You are invited to meet the candidates for Lansing City Council at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 17, at the Meet the Candidates event of the Colonial Village Neighborhood Association. It meets at Grace United Methodist Church, 1900 Boston Blvd., on the corner of Mt. Hope and Boston.

There will be a refreshment social period from 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. with the program from 7:30 p.m.to 9 p.m.

For more info, call Anita Beavers, president of the Colonia Village Neighborhood Association.… Continue