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February 7, 2010  RSS feed
LCS board vents frustration at challenge to fund every-day kindergarten
LAPEER — Daily all-day kindergarten will get a pass, for now, in Lapeer Community Schools. In the face of a projected $3.6 million budget deficit for the 2010-2011 academic year, Lapeer Community Schools officials say they are looking under every rock to find savings. And the money’s not there to fund the all-day kindergarten program. More...
Love INC needs help
BY JEFF HOGAN NEWS EDITOR

LAPEER — The leading economic figures are bleak this winter in Lapeer County, but the statistics are more than numbers to Love INC (In the Name of Christ) executive director Sue Brady — they’re real people with needs because of unemployment, the result of a home foreclosure or personal bankruptcy. More...

Fair board land swap deal falls through
BY PHIL FOLEY STAFF WRITER

IMLAY CITY — People who get to the Eastern Michigan Fair late this summer will be walking or taking the shuttle from Imlay City High School, and it looks like that won’t change anytime soon. After months of negotiation, a proposed land swap between the Lapeer County Agricultural Society and Brown City-based Tri County Bank has fallen through. More...

 News
• Revised law enforcement contract awaits agreement
LAPEER — The Lapeer County Sheriff's Dept. brought a revised contract template to commissioners recently. The agreement is implemented with townships in the county who contract for law enforcement services with the Sheriff's Department. More...
• Roads vulnerable when spring approaches
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 Front & Center
• article has image Declining tax revenues shape senior millage needs
LAPEER — Lapeer County Health Director/ Health Officer Stephanie Simmons presented county commissioners with senior millage projections Thursday. More...
• Talmage Drain sparks public hearing
• Deadline nears for school board hopefuls
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 Opinion
• ‘We must do better’ in state government
O ur world has changed, utterly. The old Michigan economy is gone. Anyone who believed that Michigan would just naturally rebound without making deep and lasting change had a rendezvous with reality in 2009. The year that just ended was a dividing line — the finale of what Time magazine has called the “Decade from Hell.” More...
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• IN YOUR WORDS
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 Obituaries
• article has image Bradley Eric Roth
Mattawan
Bradley Eric Roth, of Mattawan, went to be with his Lord and Savior on Sunday, January 3, 2010. His untimely death was the result of injuries sustained in a tragic automobile accident while traveling with his family from a holiday vacation. Brad was born March 26, 1973 in Southfield, MI. He was the loving son of Douglas and Daren (Knechtel) Roth; a devoted husband, father, brother and uncle. More...
• article has image Gary R. Page
• article has image Cheryl Rozanne Martinez-McTeer
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 Marketplace
• article has image Shoebox Memories returns to downtown
LAPEER — Dana Curtis is back where she started in downtown Lapeer. Nearly three years after she opened Shoebox Memories, a scrapbooking store, Curtis is back on Nepessing Street. More...
• LRMC continues collaboration to improve patient quality of care
• Downtown Imlay City awash in hearts
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 Sports
• article has image Last-second shot saves BWAC league leader
IMLAY CITY — Just when it looked like the Lady Spartans would tighten up the BWAC race with a dramatic win, Almont had some drama of its own saved for the very end. When it was all said and done, the Lady Raiders held the trump card in Taylor Askins. More...
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• article has image Lady Green Devils edge out Harbor Beach
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 Marquee
• article has image Smokin nice guitars
Cigar box guitars provide good hobby, great music
OREGON TWP. — When most people think of a guitar, they think music, wood, maybe a little bit of metal. When Lonnie Entrekin thinks of a guitar, he thinks bathtub drain covers, tin pans from the dollar store, deer antlers, pearl and — most importantly — cigar boxes. More...
• article has image She said ‘YES!’ — so tell us about it
• article has image Eastern Michigan Young Marines open a class for new recruits
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