Columbiaville News

COUNTIES: Genesee/Tuscola CLOSEST CITIES: Villages of Otter Lake and Millington STARTING DATE: Monday, July 6, 2009 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: Late June 2010 PROJECT: The Michigan Department of Transportation is scheduled to begin the second phase of work on the Southern Links Pathway.

While recent heavy rains played havoc with farmer's fields and roads across the county, the City of Lapeer's aging sewer treatment plant came through unscathed.

A Monday afternoon head-on traffic crash killed a Columbiaville man. Laverne Evart Long, 71, died following the 3:10 p.m. two-vehicle collision on Washburn Road.

State police say an elderly Columbiaville man died Monday afternoon when his van was hit by an oncoming car as he tried to turn left at the county line.

The LakeVille Community Schools have announced the sponsorship of a summer food service program for children.

Thousands of patients with leukemia and other life-threatening diseases depend on the Be The Match Registry for a life-saving marrow match.

Freshman State Rep. Kevin Daley and his wife Debbie are donating 10 percent of the salary he earns as a state lawmaker to eight Lapeer County charities.

Security Credit Union recently held its annual meeting at the Holiday Inn Gateway Centre in Flint at which time three Lapeer County residents were elected to its board of directors.

Anthony Vergine of Burton, Tracy Hendrix of Columbiaville and Edgar Hurtado of Flint are among the motorcyclists blessed by the Rev.

Lee Brown, a Columbiaville Elementary School third-grader, is a happy, outgoing 9-year-old with blue eyes who likes to play soccer.

It was eerily quiet Monday afternoon in and around Flint Truck Assembly Plant on Van Slyke Road.

Less than four months after it is was spared from the wrecking ball, the Palace Gardens nightclub in Burton is headed toward a reopening.

Posted on Monday, May 04, 2009 at 7:41 a.m. In this installment of our Healthy Homes report, we show you how to save money using your home heating system during the colder months.

Hundreds are expected to gather at an upcoming ceremony to honor forgotten Revolutionary War patriot Nathaniel Blackmer.

A calm like no other will fall over Camp O'Fair Winds this summer. There won't be any Girl Scouts singing songs around the campfire.

Tina Lindsey and some of her neighbors will be selling men Saturday at the Back Door Lounge, 4515 N Lake Road.

Mayfield Elementary School kindergartner Sydney Page Gavan recently was discharged after a seven-week hospital stay for her leukemia.

Thrill-seeker Dave Kanners never met a challenge he wasn't up for, and the Lapeer County resident journeyed to distant ends of the Earth to seek them out.

Tired of a messy desk, stacks of unorganized reports and scattered memos that litter your office cubicle? Maybe the whole office could use sprucing up.

Columbiaville Elementary School Principal Margaret Allen-Quaderer gets her hair styled into a mohawk during an assembly Thursday as a reward for students' accomplishments after they surpassed their reading goal of more than 1200 books during National Reading Month.