A 44-year-old woman spent part of Friday morning trapped under the ice cream truck she was driving after a tire blew out and caused the vehicle to careen across the road and flip on its side. The woman was transported to Genesys Hospital in Grand Blanc with serious injuries, including trauma caused when her leg […]
A River Day 2007 project attracted about two-dozen people carrying rakes, shovels and buckets brimming with community spirit to downtown Clarkston Saturday to help with a new Watershed Group project. The group installed a new garden, set up an informative native-plant display, and even made a few varieties of natives available to local gardeners. River […]
Michelle Tynan believes a certain amount of risk is necessary to her art’and her life. So, although The Clarkston News mural is by far the largest project she’s yet tackled’the wall measures 3000 square feet’Tynan knows she’s on the right track. Tynan, an Independence Township resident, had her eye on the building for several weeks […]
Challenging the appearance of disinterest in Clarkston’s 2007-2008 proposed budget’by community and city council members both’Councilman and budget committee member Cory Johnston delivered a bleak outlook on the city’s financial future. At June 11 public budget hearing, attended by two residents, Johnston warned that the city will face economic ruin unless the council begins to […]
Officials are reconsidering a shared-service study after an acrimonious start threatened to thwart efforts and redraw old battle lines between Clarkston and Independence Township. ‘We had a really good positive meeting with the city (of Clarkston),? said Independence Township Trustee Dan Kelly, who proposed the feasibility study in March, claiming taxpayers could save as much […]
I’m in love with a boy I haven’t yet met. Two more weeks, maybe three, til I finally hold him in my arms and kiss him and kiss him and kiss him and kiss him. Sigh. I can’t wait. I was stunned into a long silence when my barely 20-year-old daughter Christy told me she […]
With tempers considerably cooled after a June 11 meeting left officials clashing over whether Clarkston was headed for broke, the city council voted 4-0 Monday to approve the 2007-2008 budget. Jim Brueck, Kristy Ottman and Bill Rausch were absent from the meeting. ‘We have a difference of opinion on (the budget),? said Councilman Cory Johnston, […]
Hundreds arrived with lawn chairs, blankets and coolers packed with cold drinks and sandwiches Friday for the season’s first free concert at Depot Park. The event featured Legend the Band, a Detroit-based group performing hits from the 50s, 60s and 70s. ‘We come every year,? said Jennifer Syron, who attended the concert with her husband […]
Rumors, innuendos and vague accusations at June 25 city council meeting stirred up debate over who is–and isn’t–entitled to supervise Clarkston’s transitioning police department. Resident Tom Stone, who has frequently voiced concern over violation of the city charter, broached the subject when he asked council how it decides which laws to enforce’and which not. ‘I’m […]
After nearly a year of planning, meetings and gradually winning over some of Springfield Township’s angry residents, REDICO has disappeared from the radar. Township Supervisor Collin Walls said he last met with representatives from the Southfield-based developer in April, and hasn’t heard anything since. Rumors of problems with the proposed development’s sewer system, he said, […]