Keno Davis embraces fresh start at Central Michigan

The only career mementos that mark Keno Davis’ new, windowless office at Central Michigan University are three coaching awards from the year that changed his life. That dream season of 2007-08 at Drake University earned Davis national coach of the year honors. Now, after three tumultuous years at Providence College of the Big East Conference and a year in broadcasting, the son of former Iowa coach Tom Davis is out to prove himself again at the mid-major level. Keno Davis takes over a Central Michigan program that has only four winning seasons in the last 33 years.

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Motorless Motion owner talks cycling

Allison Quast is about to start her fourth summer as owner of Motorless Motion, the bicycle shop in downtown Mt. Pleasant previously owned by her father. In March, she purchased a property containing a carriage house and a main house that was a rental property until deemed unfit for human occupancy by the fire department, and is in the process of restoring it so she and her fiancé can use it as a home. While not running Motorless Motion and restoring the old house, she also serves as the liaison between the planning commission and zoning board of appeals; vice president of the Downtown Development Board; vice chairwoman of Mid-Michigan Pathways Group, which hopes to create a rail trail from Clare to Ithaca; and participating in Talk Around Town, the Mt. Pleasant Toastmasters club she started.

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CMU freshman contracts bacterial meningitis

A Central Michigan University freshman has bacterial meningitis. Central Michigan Life reports Livonia resident Nicholas Collins tested positive for meningitis between April 30 and Monday. He lived in Trout Hall on campus and moved out Thursday. School officials alerted students, CM Life reported. Anyone who has been in close contact with Collins should call CMU Health Services at 989-774-6577. Bacterial meningitis is a bacterial form of the infection that causes inflammation in fluids surrounding the brain and spinal cord, according to the Centers for Disease Control. It can cause hearing loss and brain damage, although it is treatable.

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Kathy Griffin ready to make grown-ups laugh at Mount Pleasant's Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort

Kathy Griffin says she would have been merciless on someone like herself a few years ago. “I mean, I lived with my parents in a two-bedroom apartment in Santa Monica until I was 28,” she said. “I was the person who wouldn’t leave. It was quite pitiful; I’d go on a date and couldn’t take the guy home.” But her mother and dad’s investment in their daughter’s dream paid off — “They wanted to retire in California, anyway,” said the Chicago native. “I just told them Los Angeles had great golf courses” — and she’s moved up from the D-list with her sharp-witted insights on the celebrity world.

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Student housing under study by Mt. Pleasant planners

A generation ago, Central Michigan University students celebrated the end of spring semester with something they called the End of the World party, a massive, drunken street party that brought thousands of people to Mt. Pleasant’s South Main Street. After a court order and a massive police presence, the party faded away about a quarter-century ago. Students now leave town for the summer fairly quietly, but South Main Street and its concentration of student housing remains a concern for the city of Mt. Pleasant. “About 80 percent of the incidents (police) track are in the student area,” said Jeff Gray, the city’s director of planning and community development.

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Jacksonville Jaguars release former CMU quarterback Dan LeFevour

Former Central Michigan University quarterback Dan LeFevour was released by the Jacksonville Jaguars, the team announced Monday. LeFevour was a sixth-round pick by the Chicago Bears in 2010, but has spent the last two seasons bouncing from team to team as a third quarterback. When the Bears cut LeFevour, the Cincinnati Bengals picked him up for the 2010 season. The Bengals cut LeFevour before the 2011 season. The Indianapolis Colts signed LeFevour to their practice squad, but Jacksonville signed LeFevour off the practice squad.

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Psychic Sylvia Browne to entertain Mother's Day crowd in Mount Pleasant

Who could have foreseen what life had in store for the good little girl encouraged by the sisters at her Catholic school to share her gift with the world? “The nuns were so good to me,” remembered Sylvia Browne, the renowned psychic coming on Mother’s Day to Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort in Mount Pleasant. “They protected me, and when I was 18, they encouraged me to help people full-time. “I was only 5 years old when I sensed that both of my great-grandmothers were going to die, and within weeks, both did. Thank God I had a grandmother who was psychic, too. It scared me — this was in the 1940s in the Midwest — but she helped me see ways to put it to good use.”

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