It’s a kid’s dream come true, and just in time for summer’a huge playhouse with real doors and windows, a front porch and lots of room to move around. In fact, the Victorian playhouse to be raffled by Clarkston SCAMP in early June was modeled after the downtown Clarkston home of Terry and Steve Coventry. […]
Three University of Michigan grad students arrived in town last week to present Clarkston officials with a preliminary plan to transform Depot Park into an ecological showcase. The plan included conceptual plans and ideas for projects like rain gardens, native plantings, stream bank stabilization, and green energy. ‘We want to be able to show techniques […]
City officials say they’re looking for community input as the Clarkston Police Department moves through transition sparked most recently by the firing of now former Police Chief Ernest Combs. A survey asking residents what they like, don’t like, and where they might like to see changes in the department arrived at city homes and businesses […]
A deputy in Springfield Township was commended by her commanding sergeant after sharp instincts led to the arrest and arraignment of two suspected drug dealers recently. Mark William Canter, 43, and Julie Ann Dennis, 30 both from the Gaylord, Mich. area, were arraigned in Oakland County after about 26 cocaine rocks’also known as crack’were discovered […]
During the month of March, 52 children in the pre-K classes at Lil? People’s Place 2 in Independence Township read a combined 1,536 Dr. Seuss books in honor of the famous author’s birthday. The month wrapped up March 30 with cake, punch, activities and a viewing of ‘The Cat in the Hat? movie. Green eggs […]
Mary Jean Baker is everything one might hope for in a friend’she’s energetic, optimistic, dedicated, cheerful, and, well, friendly. As proof, almost everyone at Independence Township Public Library, where Baker serves countless hours as Friends of the Library president, is happy to vouch for her. ‘MJ is very popular with the staff,? said Library Director […]
I walked into the Clarkston police station at 3 East Church last week and stopped dead in my tracks. Call it surprise, call it disbelief, picture a giant question mark over my head; I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. There, behind the counter, was a Clarkston police officer. Asleep. ‘Hello?? I said it as […]
Several members of the Clarkston City Council expressed concerns over why they were not informed of the outcome of a recent meeting, saying they learned of a new possibility for police services only through outside sources. The meeting in question took place when city officials and representatives from various groups sat down March 14 to […]
Good, bad or indifferent, the Clarkston Police Committee wants to hear what the city’s residents have to say about the police. Are the taxpayers getting the service they want? What do they like about the Clarkston Police? What do they dislike? How can the city improve its police force? The committee hopes to get answers […]
The bridge is back, and if everything goes according to plan the structure will be erected in Depot Park by Labor Day. The 40-foot steel and wood bridge will span the river separating the playground side of the park from the gazebo side, a project long on the wish-list of some residents. Although the venture […]