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The city is focused on growing the available housing stock and creating more recreational opportunities for residents.

Today’s edition of The County Press is our largest of the year, containing, in addition to our usual Sunday paper, 106 extra pages of our annual Progress Edition. Progress is a celebration of Lapeer County’s agriculture, business, education, healthcare, nonprofit and manufacturing sectors. It includes stories and photos that spotlight the people, businesses and institutions

WES SMITH, PUBLISHER Our annual Progress Edition is always a labor of love for our team at The County Press. The final product of that labor, which you hold in your hands (or on your screen), is cause for celebration within our ranks and, we hope, throughout Lapeer County. It is our privilege and our

EMILY CASWELL Despite attending Michigan State during the height of Izzone, my knowledge of college basketball is limited to what I glean editing The Fat Guy sports column for Lapeer Area View. Still, I know a lot of about March madness, just not the madness that takes place on the basketball court. I’m talking about

"2023 promises to be another monumental and positive year for the city."

The Kingdon Hotel had been falling apart for years but at the end of March 1973 a contractor started hurrying the process along.

One of the greatest advantages that Northwest Indiana has over other parts of the country is that we already realize we are, indeed, a region. We joke about “Da Region”

Memo from the Publisher You may have noticed our Progress 2020 countdown calendar ads on the front pages of The County Press and Lapeer Area View over the past few weeks. The “teasers,” as we call them, depicted one of those page-a-day calendars counting down the days to today’s Progress Edition, along with the headline,

Why is it so hard to focus one day on employees and their issues?

The annual Progress special section looks at True North Basecamp and Cuyuna Cove in Crosby offer temporary lodging to vacationers or out-of-towners staying overnight in the area.