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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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Get to know your camera
This may be one I should sign up for. Cool class coming up at Gallery 194: Getting to Know Your Digital Camera. It’s a six session class for beginning to intermediate photographers learning to use their camera as a creative … Continue reading
Local candidates for the Aug. 7 primary
Candidate petitions have now been filed. That means we have about 10 weeks to get to know our candidates for local government before the August 7 primary election. Although a number of incumbents face no challengers, there’s some healthy competition … Continue reading
Posted in government, Lapeer, Lapeer County, Michigan, politics
Tagged candidates, elections, politics
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Airport. Tomorrow.
Don’t forget tomorrow morning is the annual pancake breakfast and fly-in at Dupont-Lapeer Airport in Mayfield Township. Always fun to fill up on flapjacks, then wander the tarmac to check out the cool rides. And new this year, bring the … Continue reading
Posted in Lapeer, Lapeer County, Michigan
Tagged Dupont-Lapeer Airport, pancake breakfast
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John Nugent to run for Michigan House
Game on! Found this cool piece of information in my inbox this morning from the Democratic Party: The Lapeer Democratic Party Chair Gary Medland has announced that John Nugent has filed to run for the Michigan State House. “John Nugent … Continue reading
Posted in government, Lapeer, Lapeer County, Michigan, politics
Tagged candidates, John Nugent, Michigan House of Representatives
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Easy Striders in gear
The Easy Striders group for beginning and intermediate runners and walkers is in gear. The group gets together every Wednesday evening at 6:30 p.m., meeting up at Elite Feet at its new location on M-24 in Lapeer. The Easy Striders … Continue reading
Posted in fitness, Lapeer, Lapeer County, Michigan, running
Tagged Easy Striders, elite feet, running, southern links trail, walking
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Gallery 194 offers painting workshop
Gallery 194 is offering an Advanced Acrylic Painting Workshop with Jacquie Piechowski beginning June 8. This workshop is for painters that want a fresh approach to painting with acrylics on varied scales in a small, intimate group of adult artists … Continue reading
Posted in art, Lapeer, Lapeer County, Michigan
Tagged art, Gallery 194, Jacquie Piechowski
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Wild Lapeer happening May 5
Wild Lapeer returns May 5 to delight us and remind us of the treasures to be found in the natural world outside our doorsteps. Once again, the event will be held at the Chatfield School Campus and the adjacent Prairies … Continue reading
After citizen presses for answers, Lapeer City revises FOIA fee
Lapeer city commissioners on Monday revised their FOIA fee. The move came after citizen Teresa Blundell held the city’s feet to the fire over what is appropriate to charge for documents produced for a request under the Freedom of Information … Continue reading
Lapeer City gives the nod to extended TIFA plan, property acquisition for industrial park among the objectives
Sounds like there’s a new industrial park in Lapeer’s future. Amendments to the Tax Increment Financing Plan 1 and Development Plan 1 for the city of Lapeer were first up for public hearing last night at the Lapeer city commission. … Continue reading
Posted in economy, government, Lapeer, Lapeer County, Michigan
Tagged industrial park, Lapeer city commission, TIFA
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Quest success makes IFT request easy
Quest Industries president and founder Denny Hoover was in the house Monday night for the Lapeer city commission meeting and public hearing. He was accompanied by Lapeer Development Corporation’s Patricia Lucas as he sought an Industrial Facilities Tax exemption for … Continue reading
Posted in business, government, Lapeer, Lapeer County, Michigan
Tagged IFT, Lapeer, Lapeer Development Corporation, Quest Industries
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