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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: education
Team Chimeras wraps up awesome FIRST Robotics season
Whew! It was a wild, fantastic season for Lapeer’s Team Chimeras 1684 in the FIRST Robotics competition. It was also their best ever. After two grueling regional competitions, the team went to Eastern Michigan University in mid-April to bot it … Continue reading
Chimeras pumped for state FIRST Robotics finals
All of the regional FIRST Robotics competitions have wrapped up now, and Lapeer County’s team 1684, the Chimeras, is sparkling. When all the numbers were in, the Chimeras placed 25 out of 190 teams around the state. They easily qualified … Continue reading
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School millage renewals on May 8 ballot
In the upcoming May 8 school elections, Deputy County Clerk Mishelle Bicknell said we have only two ballot proposals. Dryden Community Schools brings their operating millage renewal. The 18-mill non-homestead property tax would run for three years, through 2014. It … Continue reading
Posted in education, government, Lapeer, Lapeer County, Michigan
Tagged elections, Lapeer County, millage, schools
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Chimeras cinch a spot in the state FIRST competition
Lapeer teens and their robot-minded mentors are looking good coming out their FIRST regional competitions. Team Chimeras 1684 under coach Tony Diodato and Team GalakTech 3535 under coach Jeff Beatley both competed this weekend at their second regional competition, this … Continue reading
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Tagged Chimeras, FIRST, Galaktech, robots
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Chimeras rock it at Rebound Rumble!
Woohoo! The Lapeer team Chimeras 1684 absolutely rocked it at their first of two regional FIRST Robotics competitions. Out of 39 teams that mixed it up March 2 and 3 at Kettering University, Chimeras ranked number 5 when the dust … Continue reading
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Tagged Chimeras, FIRST robotics, Galaktech
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meap, meap
Lost in the shuffle as Lapeer Community Schools attempts to face up to its overabundance of facilities and funding challenges, have been the recently released fall 2011 MEAP (Michigan Educational Assessment Program) scores, grades 3 through 9. Here are the … Continue reading
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
Bullying exemptions?
Last week, Michigan state senators approved a bill on school bullying, but not before Republican legislators, ahem, amended it. What started out as Matt’s Safe School Law, aimed at stemming the bullying problems we are witnessing in our schools, became … Continue reading
summer reading
Ok, parents. I hope your children are signed up for summer reading through the library. If not, I’m sure you can still get in on the fun. Even the wee ones can participate, so there are no excuses. You know … Continue reading
Elba Township CPR class
b there or b… uninformed? This bit of information could save somebody’s life. Bonnie Wilcox is a trustee on the Elba Township board. She’s also a mom and a certified instructor who’s generously offering to teach all Elba residents CPR. … Continue reading
