The Bolt

This 7-foot-tall Frosty showed up on the lawn near the north parking lot of Lapeer West High School today. The creators of this fine example of frozen art remain unknown. To see larger photos of the snowman head to the photo gallery.

Kevin Collins, of Flint, brought his African Drum group and two dancers to the Lapeer East High School auditorium stage last week to perform for Lapeer East and Lapeer West High School students.Mr. Collins and his drum group and dancers will be heading to perform in Washington, D.C. this spring. African drums are used for […]

All-day, walk-in testing is available on Wednesday, January 20, 2010, for census jobs. There are a number of sites available for that testing, including Lapeer. Lapeer’s testing site is at the Mott Community College campus, 550 Lake Drive, in Lapeer. Tests will be given at 9 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 2 p.m. and the final test […]

A Valentine’s Day Mexican dinner, a fundraiser for the Lapeer East High School Travel Club trip to France and Spain during spring break 2010, will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, February 13, in the Lapeer East cafeteria. Tickets are $10 a person and include a taco dinner, coffee or punch, […]

The Walking Program at Lapeer West will not be held on Monday, January 18th, due to employee in-service training and again on Thursday, January 21st, due to Parent-Teacher conferences at the school that night.

The following letter is being sent home to parents today with elementary school students. January 13, 2010 Dear Parent/Guardian: Today the Lapeer County Sheriff’s Department made us aware of a suspicious incident involving students shortly after they were dropped off by their bus at Pratt Lane and Five Lakes Road in Attica Township about 4:20 […]

A Lynch Elementary School sixth-grader , Scott Hilgendorf, was accepted into the People to People World Leadership Forum that will be held from June 21-26, 2010 in Washington, D.C. Scott is one of a select group of students nationwide to be accepted to participate in the program that was conceived by President Dwight D. Eisenhower […]

The Lapeer East High School Boys’ and Girls’ basketball games (all levels, varsity, freshman and junior varsity) scheduled for tonight at both schools have been cancelled at the request of Oxford High School.

Lapeer East freshman Colin Robertson, who took first place in the 7th to 9th grade division for his “Dig It!, The Secrets of Soil” poster in November, won second place in Statewide judging by the Michigan Conservation Districts state organization.Several other Lapeer students were honored for their work at the District level. Turrill first-grader Hannah […]

At the request of the Lapeer Community Schools Board of Education, the AFSCME Unit, which represents the District’s 35 custodial and maintenance employees, reopened their current Master Agreement and agreed to wage concessions that will save the District $31,000 this school year. The revised agreement was ratified by the union on December 22 and approved […]