North Branch News Archives

North Branch Days Planning Committee Chair Mary Oliver said there's a simple reason why North Branch Days are an important tradition.

Two words best describe Ken and Denise Jensen -- hard working. When Denise isn't helping out at their restaurant, the Firehouse CafZ, she's a custodian for North Branch Area Schools.

Officials at the Family Literacy Center in Lapeer are planning an action-packed summer to promote reading and writing with children and adults.

Donald Gleeson, retired superintendent of the North Branch Area Schools, received the Michigan Association of School Administrators Hall of Fame Award Monday.

On a Parsons street corner many summers ago, 8-year-old Dave Magda was playing with a group friends when Joanne Austin approached them with an idea.

Open for business since March, Outback Jack's Feed & Seed in North Branch is your old-fashioned type store with the owners on the premises to visit over coffee.

To lead by example in answering the district's budget crisis, the North Branch Area Schools administrators accepted another wage concession at Monday's meeting.

COUNTY: Lapeer HIGHWAY: M-90/M-24 CLOSEST CITY: North Branch STARTING DATE: Monday, July 13, 2009 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: Mid-August 2009 PROJECT: The Michigan Department of Transportation is scheduled to begin chip seal and resurfacing work along 15.7 miles on M-90 in Lapeer County.

Three graduating North Branch High School seniors are recipients of staff-funded scholarships in honor of former long-time board of education member Ralph Deshetsky.

Eastern Michigan Young Marines First Sgt. Alex Havermale has been awarded a four-year $150,0000 scholarship for college from the United States Marine Corps.