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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: stimulus funds
a little bit of mdot action
Here’s a little bit of that stimulus money coming into the county. It’s hard to get real excited about, but….according to an MDOT news release yesterday: The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is scheduled to begin resurfacing carpool lots on … Continue reading
Posted in Lapeer County, roads, stimulus funds
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transit funds for flint
Governor Granholm announced Friday that six Michigan communities would receive $14 million in recovery grant funds for transportation upgrades, according to a news release. The Federal Transit Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Transportation, allocates the Recovery Act … Continue reading
Posted in economy, Lapeer County, safety, stimulus funds
Tagged Genesee County, transit
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stimulus funds & roads
Somebody noticed. Lapeer gets a mention in this article. It reports on how the places that are experiencing the worst unemployment are getting the least help from stimulus funds for the roads. Mmmmm, let’s see, March jobless rate was 17.8% … Continue reading
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road commission
still drivin’ The Lapeer County Road Commission met this morning. It was a fast meeting. Yes, the frost laws are still on. Apparently they’re going off in Genesee County next week. Still, the consensus is that frost is still with … Continue reading
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Lapeer Small Urban
Obama Bucks & Small Urban The Small Urban Task Force meeting this morning was to determine the priorities for stimulus monies for roads. Roads under consideration were primary roads (on the Federal Aid system) in ‘small urban’ areas of 5,000 … Continue reading
Posted in economy, government, Lapeer, Lapeer County, lcrc, roads, stimulus funds
Tagged small urban
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