I’m not here. As of Wednesday I am O-fficially on vacation, and by Friday I’ll be communing with nature on the wild, rocky and unpredictable shores of Lake Superior. I’m giddy with excitement; we’re renting a house with a fireplace, hot tub and a fire pit on the beach. I’m bringing marshmallows. And a winter […]
It was bad enough when someone rifled through Melissa Smith’s mailbox, stole outgoing checks and’simply by applying correction fluid and fresh ink’turned the checks into cash at the bank. Cash, as it turns out, used to support a drug habit; a heroin addiction. It got worse. Smith, who lives in the Lake Waldon Village II […]
Be the change you want to see in the world. It was a message first imparted by Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi; today, founders of a new yoga studio in Davisburg are taking the idea to heart. The Yoga Oasis, grown from cooperative efforts between seven yoga instructors who wanted to bring their […]
Even with a backward slide of $10 million in taxable property values, Springfield Township millage rates won’t increase’at least not proportionally. At last week’s regular meeting, the township board OK’d the general operating millage at the same rate as last year, while the fire and police millages were only nudged slightly higher. The bond millage, […]
Interested in taking a scenic 50-mile motorcycle ride across northern Oakland County and capping it off with a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert at DTE and the chance to win a cool-looking custom-built motorcycle? There’s still time. The annual David and Wanda Harrison Memorial Charity Ride to raise money for Children’s Leukemia Foundation of Michigan takes place […]
Parents and school officials around Clarkston got some good news’and some not-so-good’when Michigan Merit Exam results were released last month. The good news: Clarkston High School juniors placed above state average on the Spring 2008 MME. In some cases, scores were significantly higher; 18 percent of Clarkston High School juniors, for example, achieved ‘advanced? level […]
Question: What’s cool and fast, blue and silver, and up for grabs? Answer: a custom built motorcycle to be raffled off Sept. 21. Chuck Fortinberry, president of Clarkston Chrysler Jeep, is gearing up for the annual David and Wanda Harrison Memorial Charity Ride to raise money for Children’s Leukemia. Foundation of Michigan. He’s hoping about […]
A sock, hung by a noose and inscribed with ‘KKK,? hung over the chair of a Clarkston Community Schools custodian when he entered the break room at one of the district’s elementary schools this past summer. The incident, which occurred about a month ago, was witnessed by a number of other custodians working together in […]
The sign made it clear: ‘Feeding of Deer PROHIBITED.? Still, some ignored orders from the Department of Natural Resources and heaved apples, carrots, corn and cabbage over the fence near Clarkston and Eston roads anyway. The deer inside the 80-acre privately-owned parcel in Independence Township ‘look hungry? as they amble toward the fence, some said. […]
Elementary school principals practically leapt from their chairs Monday after a unanimous school board decision sent them rushing to the phones. According to district spokeswoman Anita Banach, the principals were eager to call teachers the board agreed to recall from layoff. The decision came after an Aug. 18 report to the board suggested some elementary […]