The Bolt

Please congratulate Chad Kenny and the Lapeer East Boys Soccer team on being awarded the 2010-2011 “Good Sports Are Winners” award. This award is in recognition of displaying a high level of sportsmanlike behavior during the MHSAA tournament. The award is presented by the MHSAA and Meemic Insurance Company.

High School Art Downtown is featured at Gallery 194 in downtown Lapeer through May 14th displaying work of students engaged in studying art from Lapeer, North Branch, Almont and home school programs. On Friday, May 6, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. student artists will be on hand for a free opening with live music […]

Lapeer Community Schools is pleased to announce the launch of its new fundraiser, Book Boosters. The program, which features simplified online contributions, is designed to provide the district with books and other materials that promote literacy and encourage students to read. “This program is unusual because 100 percent of proceeds go toward buying books,” says […]

The Lapeer Rotary Club is looking for host families for a male foreign exchange student coming from Thailand. Each host family is asked to host the student for a 3- to 4-month time period. The student will attend East or West High school starting this fall. For more information, please contact Mike Higgins (810-245-4817) or […]

The Maple Grove PTA will host its first Maple Grove Carnival on Friday, May 13th, from 5-8 p.m. The event is open to families from the entire Lapeer area. The evening events include games, inflatables, cotton candy and slushies, and even a dunk tank for Maple Grove Principal Mr. Dombrowski!

East High School basketball players Jeff Wells and Aaron Hirsh have both been dedicated to basketball since they were old enough to dribble a ball, and their hard work apparently has paid off. The two teens will spend a week this summer getting a good look from college coaches at a national competition in Ohio. […]

Murphy Elementary School is hosting a pancake dinner, featuring Chris Cakes of Michigan, on Friday, May 6th from 4:30-7:30p. Chris Cakes holds the world record of tossing and catching pancakes 25.4 feet high and making 555 pancakes in an hour. Check out his video and website at http://www.chriscakesofmi.com. Dinner will include all-you-can-eat pancakes, sausage, orange […]

The Lapeer East High School Class of ’96 will host its 15-year reunion on Aug. 13 at 7 p.m. at Castle Creek Golf Course in Lum. Tickets are $40 per person. For more information, please contact Mary Kobylczak — 810-614-7855 email Spatulaj@yahoo.com, or Mindy Patrick — 810-724-0567 email dollzdimplez@yahoo.com. Details of the event can be […]

The deadline for nominations for candidates for the sixth annual Lapeer Community Schools Distinguished Alumni Award program has been extended until Friday, May 13. To be eligible for the award, a person, living or dead, must have graduated from the Lapeer Community Schools at least 10 years ago and be noted in his or her […]

Any Lapeer Community Schools staff members, along with friends and family, who want to dip, duck, dive, or dodge a dodgeball are invited to the District’s first District-Wide Dodgeball Tournament at Zemmer Middle School on Thursday May 12. Action begins at 4:30 p.m. in the double-elimination tournament. The winner gets district-wide bragging rights. The event […]