Lapeer News

A river runs through it, but running the river through Lapeer can be something of a challenge.

Broken doorwall at foreclosed, vacant house. Damage to property reported at Goldenpointe Court.

North Branch Days Planning Committee Chair Mary Oliver said there's a simple reason why North Branch Days are an important tradition.

Car enthusiasts live for the arrival of summer each year, and almost any vehicle event is eagerly looked forward too.

A 30-year-old Flint man released from the Genesee County Jail Friday was back behind bars in Flint before the day was out, accused of stealing a car and BB gun in Flint; stealing gas in Davison; and robbing a store in Lapeer at plastic gunpoint.

A church's one-acre plot of earth is growing wholesome vegetables to curb a community need for healthy vegetables.

As threatening clouds swept by overhead a tired looking Lapeer Community Schools board wrapped up six months of painful number crunching and negotiations Thursday and passed it's 2009-10 budget.

The Lapeer County 4-H will host its second annual open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 18 at the Michigan State University Extension Office, 287 W. Nepessing St., Suite 1, in downtown Lapeer.

Sydney Gavan has more than 150 more chances to find a bone marrow donor match after today's registration drive.

Dorna Hainds said had she not come to the United States to be adopted and met the Shriners, she would be in an Indian orphanage still crippled from polio.

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.

What do Ann Arbor, Bloomfield Hills and Grosse Point have in common with Lapeer? They all have high schools on Newsweek magazine's annual Top U.S. High Schools list.

A Lapeer native is conquering his battle with the pandemic swine flu virus that has killed five in Michigan and is sweeping across 70 countries.

The Lapeer Area Shrine Club will host a free mini-clinic from noon to 3 p.m. June 27 at the Lapeer Masonic Temple, 1685 Saginaw Street at Davis Lake Road.

The Mirth Mayhem and Mockery exhibit is on display at Gallery 194 in Lapeer through July 24.

Officials at the Family Literacy Center in Lapeer are planning an action-packed summer to promote reading and writing with children and adults.

"Rumors," Neil Simon's well-known play will be presented by Lapeer Community Theatre and will run this weekend June 19-20 and again on June 26-27. Curtain time at the PIX Theatre in Lapeer is 7:30 p.m. In this production at a large, tastefully appointed townhouse, the deputy mayor of New York has just shot himself.

Lapeer Community Schools' day of reckoning is coming Thursday. That's when board members will have their last chance to make changes to their 2009-10 budget, which they're slated to approve at a special meeting June 25.

Sure, they want to be published, and paid for it, too, but there is something more that motivates members of the First Fridays writers' group.

Lapeer County Sheriff Ron Kalanquin said he was digging for justice, but Prosecutor Byron Konschuh claims the sheriff is tipping the scales.