Across the Clarkston area, thousands of senior citizens and others will exercise their right to vote without stepping foot into the polls Nov. 4. In Independence Township, the clerk’s office has thus far issued 5,078 absentee voter ballots. In the less populated Springfield Township, another 1,446 have already gone out, and 59 voters from Clarkston’s […]
The seventh graders closed their eyes to ensure voter privacy and ease peer pressure. ‘OK, if you were voting today, how many would vote for John McCain?? Marilyn Ormiston asked her students. ‘Raise your hand.? She counted silently’one, two, three, four, five, six, seven’and wrote the number on the white board at the front of […]
Who turned out the lights? Clarkston school officials know who it was, and they’re sending a message to students, teachers, support staff and custodians across the district: Thanks. Over the last two years you helped us save $820,000 in energy costs. Seven of the district’s schools received Energy Star Award Recognition at Monday’s school board […]
‘What could be scarier than this?? ‘Wow,? I thought, staring at the photo of a shiny silver handgun pointed right at me as it slid from my mailbox mixed with some pizza coupons and a couple of bills. ‘That IS scary.? What could be scarier, the ad wanted to know. I didn’t have a clue’not […]
Barack Obama will take guns away from the American people if he’s elected president. No he won’t. Yes he will. No he won’t. That was the course of debate at the Oakland County Sportsman’s Club in Independence Township last week as the Michigan United Conservation Clubs sponsored the Michigan Out-of-Door Presidential Candidate Forum. The town-hall […]
The weather seemed made to order Saturday as a handful of local teens donned life vests and paddled out to enjoy the blaze of fall colors surrounding Crooked Lake at Independence Oaks. The event was the first for the Teens Outside Great Adventure, or T.O.G.A, a new club aimed at getting teens away from video […]
Collin Walls delivered a little good news, a lot of bad news, and listened as the only resident to show up for a public hearing voiced a complaint about the Springfield Township budget last week. The good news: a contract renewal for police service from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office came in with just under […]
About 125 supporters of the North Oakland Headwaters Land Conservancy showed up for a swamp stomping good time at the organization’s annual fundraiser Saturday. ‘Our attendance was down from last year,? said NOHLC Executive Director Katie Anderson, noting about 180 turned out in 2007. ‘But generosity was up, particularly with sponsorships from the businesses who […]
People who continue to throw apples, carrots and other food to the deer at Clarkston and Eston roads are doing more harm than good. That’s the message from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, who said the agency might be forced to take drastic measures if the deer don’t stop waiting around for handouts. ‘We […]
The bad news for Clarkston schools: 8,123 students showed up for school on count day, 11 less than last year’s total of 8,134. The good news: 185 kids were absent Sept. 24, and the district has 30 days before the numbers become official. ‘If everybody returns were going to be up about a hundred kids,? […]