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A few events coming up in Lapeer County
May 31, June 1 & 2 Hadley Township community-wide garage sale
June 1, 2, 3 - Art & History Festival, Chatfield School Campus, hosted by Sunrise Kiwanis
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- Get to know your camera
- One more time, freedom for whom?
- Local candidates for the Aug. 7 primary
- Airport. Tomorrow.
- John Nugent to run for Michigan House
- Easy Striders in gear
- Team Chimeras wraps up awesome FIRST Robotics season
- Movie night at the Airport
- Wild Lapeer tomorrow
- Pancake Breakfast at Dupont-Lapeer Airport May 19, pint-sized plane debuts to delight kids
- Bridge work on M-24 in Lapeer starts Monday
- Michiganders blocked from vote
- Quilts! Art! Food! Tomorrow
- Whoosh! Lapeer area 5th grader heads to IronKids competition
- Butterflies abound
- Gallery 194 offers painting workshop
- Young Eagles learn about flight at Dupont-Lapeer Airport
- Wild Lapeer happening May 5
- Ponzi proceedings inflict more pain, Lapeer County seeks to recoup lost funds
- County valuation declines 6 percent
- Blankie Project sends love to veterans, Alzheimer’s patients
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- After citizen presses for answers, Lapeer City revises FOIA fee
- Lapeer City gives the nod to extended TIFA plan, property acquisition for industrial park among the objectives
- Put your thinking caps on: 3rd annual Lloyd G. Copeman award
- Getting behind regional economic possibilities
- Quest success makes IFT request easy
- City commissioners in the dark
- Hadley residents reduce, re-use, recycle – events coming up
- Hadley roads getting some more love
- Public hearings at Lapeer City tonight
- politics, politics
- Soil & Sed plan would focus on educating community
- infrastructure
- New Central Dispatch system moving along
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Category Archives: agriculture
Soil & Sed plan would focus on educating community
The seemingly mundane topic of Soil & Sed was back in the room Thursday when the Lapeer County Board of Commissioners revisited the pressing issue. It is really anything but mundane – striking at both very practical concerns for homeowners, … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, government, Lapeer, Lapeer County, Michigan
Tagged Agriculture, labor, Lapeer County, Soil & Sed, unfunded mandates
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Lapeer County Farm Bureau hosts County Leaders Lunch
Just back from the Lapeer County Farm Bureau’s annual County Leaders Lunch at Gallery 194 in Lapeer. Each year the local Farm Bureau invites county leaders to get together to present information and policy views, and to have an opportunity … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, government, Lapeer, Lapeer County, Michigan
Tagged Agriculture, kevin daley, Lapeer County Farm Bureau
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Clik-bit: Dairy farms
Lapeer County Farm Bureau’s Jim Davis on Thursday cited some interesting figures from the Michigan Milk Producers Association comparing the Michigan dairy industry in 1977 to today. In 1977, there were 5,761 dairy farms. In 2011, there were 2,114. Even … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, Lapeer, Lapeer County, Michigan
Tagged Agriculture, Lapeer County Farm Bureau, Michigan dairy farms, milk
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Lapeer County officials press solutions to Soil & Sed dilemma
Lapeer County officials wrestled again March 8 with their approach to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality relative to the county’s Soil & Sedimentation Control department. The state is bearing down on the county to staff up and enforce more … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, economy, government, Lapeer, Lapeer County, Michigan
Tagged Soil & Sed
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sky’s the limit
Local officials are mulling over the proposed I-69 International Trade Corridor, a regional economic development corporation reaching from Shiawassee to Huron County, in today’s CP. Begs the question again about what really creates jobs, what really helps to develop the … Continue reading
clikt-it: imlay city
cruising by the elevators at Lapeer Grain in IC
