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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: innovate
Put your thinking caps on: 3rd annual Lloyd G. Copeman award
The Hadley Township Historical Society is once again tempting inventors to come forth. For the third year, the Lloyd G. Copeman Inventors Award is being offered as inspiration. Creative sorts are asked to come up with a vehicle that demonstrates … Continue reading
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Tagged 4th of July, Hadley Township, historical society, Lloyd G. Copeman, parade, run of the mill
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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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Tagged Chimeras, FIRST
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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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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
michigan unemployment rate
July 15, 2009 – Michigan’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in June rose one and one-tenth percentage points to 15.2 percent, according to data released today by the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor & Economic Growth (DELEG). Unemployment increased significantly by … Continue reading
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before. – Agnes Repplier
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transcending the machine
fuel for thought “We’re at a point where we’re transcending the machine. The sky is the limit,” Bauer said, noting the significance of moving from gas to electric. So says Nissan’s design manager in … Continue reading
