The NAACP announced this week it will offer a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who burned a cross in the yard of a black Independence Township family. The six-foot tall cross was erected from one-by-six boards, doused with gasoline’or some other accelerant’and set aflame during […]
As summer unfolds, each week brings new produce to the Clarkston Farmers? Market. A wide variety of locally grown fruits and vegetables’many organic or naturally grown’are trucked in by local farmers early each Saturday. Tomatoes are in’many varieties’and the corn and blueberries keep coming. Artisan breads, fresh eggs and cheese can also be found at […]
No one, including the Clarkston Police, saw anything during the night. But when the sun rose on the city’s downtown Tuesday morning, people arriving at work or out for a morning stroll were shocked to see vulgar images spray painted on the 5 S. Main Street mural. Some stopped in The Clarkston News parking lot […]
The report itself is only 41 pages. But to fully understand cost and revenue, cooperative structures, applicable technology, or implementation of a solid waste authority, Resource Recycling Services prepared seven appendices to accompany the document. All totaled, the Capital and Cooperative Initiatives Revolving Fund (CCIRF) study report is nearly 500 pages. Interested residents will have […]
New life arrived at an empty building in downtown Clarkston recently, but some residents say they’re not happy about the tenants. Two businesses have already set up shop in the old Independence Township Hall at 90 N. Main Street in downtown Clarkston’a local photographer and a computer-related venture’and two more are lined up to go […]
The woman accused of embezzling money from PTA groups at two Clarkston schools will pay $26,400.83 in restitution. Diane Weller, 44, pled no contest Aug. 3 in Sixth Circuit Court, accepting plea bargain terms for probation and lesser charges in exchange for repayment to both Pine Knob Elementary and Sashabaw Middle School PTA funds. ‘I […]
When an Independence Township man woke one late July morning to discover his laptop’left in an unlocked car outside his home’had been stolen by thieves in the night, he sprang to action. Using a different computer, the man went to Craigslist.com, a local and mostly-free online forum featuring classified ads in categories like jobs, services, […]
The decision was difficult for both the artist and the man who hired’and ultimately fired’her. But difficult or not, Jim Sherman Sr., who owns The Clarkston News building in the city’s downtown, said the decision has been made, and it’s final. On Thursday, Sherman asked artist Michelle Tynan to put down her paint brushes and […]
Local governments should move forward to establish a solid waste authority. That’s the word from Resource Recycling Systems (RRS), an Ann Arbor-based firm retained earlier this year to evaluate and report on alternatives for current residential garbage hauling and recycling practices in seven North Oakland communities. Advocates of establishing such an authority have repeatedly touted […]
Six Clarkston candidates declared intent to run for city council in the November election, turning in required paperwork by the Aug. 4 deadline. Four seats are up for grabs; Voters will elect three city council members for two-year terms, and one member for a one-year term, at the Tuesday, Nov. 3 election. Incumbent Jim Brueck […]