The Bolt

Two West High School art teachers have had their artwork accepted to the MEA Art Acquisitions Purchase Exhibition. Cory Gutenschwager received a Juror’s Choice Award for his “Figured Ash Vase” that was carved out of laminated wood. Jeff Bolzman had a clay piece selected for the show entitled, “Hummingbird Teapot #2.” Both pieces are currently […]

The Lapeer Community Schools have named Matthew Wandrie as the District’s new superintendent. He will begin the job July 1, replacing six-year veteran Superintendent Debbie Thompson, who is retiring at the end of the current school year. Wandrie was officially hired by the Board at its April 21 special meeting. He was the Board’s unanimous […]

A sizable group of students showed up for class early April 15 for the first-ever YA Café at Rolland-Warner Middle School. The YA Café is designed as a way to promote literacy for all. The morning began at 8 a.m. as 59 students, 5 parent volunteers, and about 10 staff members showed up in the […]

The Lapeer County Community Foundation is extending the deadline for its Ronald C. Warner Scholarship and the Irma Gelhausen Scholarship to Tuesday, May 3, 2011. The Warner Scholarship Fund, named for long-time local educator Ronald C. Warner, was established in 2008 to assist students in pursuing a career in agriculture and/or education. The student must […]

Seaton Elementary 4th grader Morgan Pierce will get a chance to attend a special summer writing camp in August hosted by author Jonathan Rand, writer of the popular Michigan Chillers mysteries for young readers. Morgan wrote a 100-word essay to be selected for Rand’s Author’s Quest Writing Camp. She was accepted and will be attending […]

From the County PressTeens from the Lapeer area got to mix it up with the big time last weekend, when the country’s most competitive statewide FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics effort held its competition at Eastern Michigan University. Lapeer County was well-represented with not one, but two, teams at the […]

Youth For Understanding (YFU) is looking for Lapeer host families to host high school exchange students for the 2011-2012 school year. Host families provide a place to live and three meals a day plus the encouragement, advice and love to help their new family member through a semester or year in a new home. The […]

Lapeer area families love to read. Kids and their parents flocked to Zemmer Middle School in Lapeer April 12 for the launch of the Caught You Reading program and Rob’s Books at Lapeer Community Schools. Many of the more than 250 people who attended were actually caught in the act of reading during the event, […]

Zemmer Middle School played host for this year’s Lapeer County Spelling Bee on March 30 as a total of 32 students from elementary and middle schools across the county competed for the title of spelling bee champion. The competition lasted for 27 rounds before Almont seventh grader Emily Levy took first place. Niquole Caringi from […]

The school year will be extended for all students at Lapeer Community Schools because the number of school days that were cancelled this year, for reasons beyond the school district control, exceeded the six days allowed by the state. The number of days of cancelled instruction were not consistent throughout our 12 buildings and the […]