An Independence Township family got a rude awakening when their home was hit with buckshot just after 6:00 a.m. Monday. Patrick Lee was standing by the front window talking to his son, Corey, 11, when he heard a loud pop and looked down to see that the outside window had been hit and cracked in […]
Heidi Coats-Frobel hopes eight months of renovations at the funeral home her family has owned since 1925 will make the task of planning a funeral a little bit easier for local residents. Coats Funeral Home on Sashabaw Road in Waterford recently completed a project designed to give families the option of holding a funeral luncheon […]
If you walk into Java Flix and overhear the owners talking about green beans, rest assured ? they’re not talking about the long, slender vegetable that grows up a trellis in backyard gardens everywhere. They’re talking about unroasted coffee beans, green from the tree. As the owners of Beanstro, a specialty coffee roaster, Paul and […]
Deciding what to do with leftover promotional merchandise was a snap for local businesswoman Cheryl Bean. She knew her surplus could bring peace of mind and possibly mean the difference between life and death for someone in her community. So on a recent sunny afternoon, Bean piled dozens of brand new, still-in-the-box fire extinguishers and […]
When 17-year-old Michael Zukoff stepped up and offered to plan and build an outdoor sanctuary at his family’s Clarkston church, he knew only one thing for sure ? if he was going to do the project, he was going to do it right. Then a junior at Brother Rice High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michael […]
The employees at Chase Plastics popped their umbrellas bravely up last Thursday and marched into the November wind and rain to celebrate groundbreaking of the company’s new building. Although the weather was nothing to cheer about, the company’s executives and employees all welcomed the project’s kick-off. ‘The start of this building is a testament of […]
The ball is finally rolling. The new Citizens Police Study Committee assembled for the first time Tues., Nov. 28, to begin sorting fact from fiction in the debate over maintaining the status quo with the Clarkston Police, or reverting to fulltime protection from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department. Lopping off the police force would allow […]
BY LAURA COLVIN Clarkston News Staff Writer Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus, right down ? Main Street? Yes, it’s time again for the Holiday Lights Parade, the sixth annual procession of holiday floats, music, and twinkling lights set to wind through downtown Clarkston Sat., Dec. 9 at 6 p.m. This year’s theme, […]
A woman wandered hopefully through the front door of the Clarkston News? office a few weeks back, explaining that she was eager to find a picture of a mom and her little girl, a photo that had run in our paper back in the early ?90s. She was the mom, and the little girl was […]
A brand new sign arrived to replace the worn and rotting Clarkston City Offices marker on Depot Road last week, and three more ‘Welcome to Clarkston? signs are slated for instalation by the end of the year. One of the new signs will mark the north border of town on Main Street, another at the […]