Beautiful Baby Contest set for Sept. 19 GRAND BLANC — The annual Beautiful Baby Contest, part of the Grand Blanc Family Fun Fest, will be held Sept. 19. Times are as follow: • Ages 0-12 months, 3 p.m. • Ages 1-3 years, 3:30 p.m. • Ages 3-5 years, 4 p.m. • Winners announced at 5 p.m. More...

GRAND BLANC — Construction has moved onto brick pavers being set down along Grand Blanc Road and Davis Street as part of the large project taking place on the downtown streetscape. More...

Man cited for littering GRAND BLANC TWP. — A Grand Blanc man was caught littering as he threw a milk carton out his window right in front of the police. More...

GRAND BLANC — Looking to improve their patients quality of life, the Michigan Lung and Critical Care Specialists and Sleep Disorders Center fulfilled their dream of opening their very own sleep testing lab. More...

I spent the weekend with my kids recently and I was reminded of the difference between grown-up and kid economics. For kids they want everything they see and they are oblivious to cost because, don’t you know, money apparently grows on trees. For adults we hear a cash register “ch-chinging” in the background every time we take our kids somewhere. More...

FLINT — When visitors enter Crossroads Village, chances are they will notice improvements to signs along the boardwalk and the C. W. Parker Carousel, and all of those improvements can be attributed to artist Brian Ashley. More...

GRAND BLANC — In the eight years iMichigan Productions have been filming their documentary, The Michigan Experience: The American Civil War Years, no battle re-enactment has come close to reaching the size as that of the living history 26th Annual Civil War Muster in Jackson. More...

ART/THEATRE SUNDAY, SEPT. 12 Bridge to Terabithia at the Flint Youth Theatre. The Flint Youth Theatre, 1220 E. Kearsley St., Flint, is open from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Details/tickets: 810-237- 1530 or www.thefim.org. FRIDAY-SATURDAY, SEPT. 24-25 More...

BATTLE CREEK – A new All- American Hockey League team, the Lapeer Professional Hockey Club, was accepted by the AAHL Board of Governors on August 22. The expansion team, that will be named either the Lapeer Loggers or the Lapeer Chiefs after the online voting is completed next week, will begin playing this winter at the 1,200-seat Polar Palace. More...