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Prepping for future
Almont Chamber, high school partner for 'mock interviews' ALMONT — Being well-prepared for a job interview is particularly important to younger and first-time job seekers. At Almont High School, staff and local employers teamed up to provide economics class students...
Almont teen shares story of online predator
Targeted ALMONT — After three harrowing days under the control of an online predator, 14-year-old Laura Oliver is safe at home with her parents in Berlin Township. The Almont Middle School student was reported missing Saturday, April 27 by her grandmother, a resident...
Ready, set, health!
Imlay City Schools implements 5-2-1-0 challenge aimed at encouraging healthy habits for youths IMLAY CITY — When Monday, May 13 dawns, the 5-2-1-0 Challenge for Imlay City students and their families officially begins. For the next five weeks, Imlay City Schools'...
Program aims at honoring ‘Fallen Heroes’
Banners to fly in Capac with faces, names of their service members ST. CLAIR COUNTY — The Blue Water Area Fallen Heroes Community Banner Program hopes the public can help them honor veterans, including several from the Capac area, who died in service to their country....
Involvement all the way
Almont High School's Audrey Schapman testifies at Capitol TRI-CITY AREA — When Audrey Schapman wanted to join the Eastern Michigan State Fair Board as a junior member, she didn't expect her duties would take her beyond the fairgrounds often. So when the Michigan...
Rick remembers…
Times' columnist published in Michigan History magazine ALMONT — When he was a little boy, furiously pedaling the wheels of his tricycle down Teeds Street, Rick Liblong would pretend he was race car driver Skeeter Ross. The boy's idol was a regular at the Motor City...
‘Snap Boogie’ to join Busker talent lineup
America's Got Talent performer comes to Imlay City June 14-15 IMLAY CITY — Organizers of the 2019 Michigan Busker Fest are putting the final touches on their entertainment lineup to happen in downtown Imlay City on June 14-15. Listed among the entertainers scheduled...
Firefighters get helping hand
Volunteers join in effort to install free fire alarms at Maple Grove mobile home park IMLAY CITY — With help from about three dozen volunteers on Saturday, April 27, Imlay City firefighters installed 576 smoke alarms and 71 carbon monoxide detectors in 150 residences...
Almont’s Dr. Haney to be remembered
Memorials planned at First Congregational May 1-2 ALMONT — Friends and neighbors of the late-Dr. Merle "Ben" Haney, MD are welcome to attend a "Celebration of Life" visitation on Wednesday, May 1 from 1-3 p.m. and 5-7 p.m. at the First Congregational Church of Almont,...
Breaking the cycle
Lapeer County Sheriff unveils program aimed at freeing inmates from alcohol, opioid addiction LAPEER — Most of us wouldn't equate a stint in jail with good health, but for those battling addiction, that incongruence is reality—one that Sheriff Scott McKenna hears...
