Columbiaville News

LAPEER COUNTY, Michigan - What, no Thin Mints? No Savannahs? Yep, you heard right.

Contact: Anita Richardson, MDOT Office of Communications, 989-754-0878, ext. 227 Agency: Transportation October 2, 2009 -- The Southern Links Trailway, located in the Michigan Department of Transportation's Bay Region, won the 2009 Michigan American Society of Civil Engineers Quality of Life Award.

Police say a 52-year-old Detroit-area man has been struck and killed by a gravel hauler in a parking lot in Oxford.

Ecuador senior Janeth Lung is feeling the pressure of being a senior. As an exchange student, Lung has had a sense of the real world by throwing herself into a completely different culture and going through changes and experiences.

Just in case you need an excuse to pig-out, you can always do it for charity. A 310-pound pig was roasted and consumed by 150 people in Otter Lake Park this Saturday.

When Matt and I pulled up to the Backdoor Lounge we weren't quite sure where to go in, until it dawned on me that they don't call it the Backdoor for nothing.

While thousands of Lapeer County residents and visitors ate elephant ears, rode the Ferris wheel and listened to concerts at Lapeer Days Saturday a handful of Flint River Watershed Coalition and Lapeer Rotary Club Volunteers slogged their way down the South Branch of the Flint River just downstream of Oxbow Campground.

When Fenton resident Dina Senick and her husband bought C&D Collision in downtown Lapeer three years ago, they were told they didn't need flood insurance, so they didn't get the coverage, even though previous building owners had.

As college students clad in red T-shirts hauled debris from a Habitat for Humanity house on Julie Drive Monday, a nervous neighbor peeked from under the trees in the front yard wondering what was going on.

A State of Emergency has been declared in Lapeer County because of flooding. More than six inches of rain fell over the weekend causing flooding.

A Columbiaville man who's been in federal custody since November on child pornography charges will stay that way for the next nine years.

A Columbiaville man who's been in federal custody since November on child pornography charges will stay that way for the next nine years.

In total, four Lapeer County communities were notified this week that they have been pegged to receive grant funding by the Michigan Economic Development Corp.

In total, four Lapeer County communities were notified this week that they have been pegged to receive grant funding by the Michigan Economic Development Corp.

Clerk Denise Dupack said there is some confusion about the village's chipping policy where tree material accumulated from normal, common, and ordinary maintenance is chipped for village residents.

Two houses in Lapeer County will once again become homes thanks to Lapeer County's Habitat for Humanity.

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.