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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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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
Movie night at the Airport
Yep, fun was had by all at the first one, so they’re doing it again. Wednesday, May 9, at 7:00 p.m., you can munch popcorn and enjoy a showing of “Stealth” with Friends of the Airport at Dupont-Lapeer Airport in … Continue reading
Wild Lapeer tomorrow
Just a reminder that tomorrow is is our local celebration of all things outdoors at Wild Lapeer. Check it all out at the Chatfield School campus and Prairies and Ponds at Oakdale. Very cool stuff with many hands-on demos and … Continue reading
Pancake Breakfast at Dupont-Lapeer Airport May 19, pint-sized plane debuts to delight kids
Fun at the airport! It’s the annual Pancake Breakfast and Fly-In at Dupont-Lapeer Airport in Mayfield Township. Mark the date: Saturday, May 19 from 7 to 11 a.m. The local chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association, 1303, and Lapeer Aviation … Continue reading
Michiganders blocked from vote
What happened yesterday at the State Board of Canvassers was a sad thing, and an embarrassment to the state. 203,238 people signed a petition to get an issue to the vote of the people in November. That was almost 42,000 … Continue reading
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Tagged ballot, Emergency Manager Law
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