School officials in the Swartz Creek School District learned Thursday just how fast information, and misinformation, can go viral.

Readers from Swartz Creek and Bay City Western are disputing that former coach Mike Lakies punched a Western player, but both have confirmed he did push a player.

Kyla Hunter's family is hosting an Angelman Syndome Walk on Saturday, May 19, at Linden County Park. All proceeds will benefit the Angelman Syndome Foundation.

A reported incident in a high school boys lacrosse matchup with Bay City Western and Swartz Creek on Wednesday shocked sports figures in the Flint-area.

And he’s hired Flint-based attorney Jeff Clothier to help him do it. Clothier said Lakies acknowledges pushing a Bay City Western player but said he denies punching anyone during the May 9 altercation during a game between the two schools.

In the past two weeks, Swartz Creek Police have taken two complaints in which scam artists target elderly residents and con them out of large sums of money, authorities say.

Genesee County Drain Commissioner Jeff Wright said he will have employees from his office check for possible blockages in the Swartz Creek, which remains swollen several days after heavy rains.

Many of the streets running throughout the Swartz Creek Estates mobile home park are flooded with no way to cross them. Waters in the streets were measured at more than 39 inches in some places this morning, covering one car past its headlights.

The Swartz Creek Kiwanis Club and city of Swartz Creek are looking for help with their joint efforts to do some spring cleaning at Elms Park.

Genesee County officials are still piecing together information from cities and townships with the heaviest losses tied to Friday's flooding, and Drain Commissioner Jeff Wright said the rainfall likely reached 9 inches in five hours in the Swartz Creek Watershed.