A mascot at the Big Boy Restaurant in Clarkston has been banned. Standing along Dixie Highway, the restaurant’s 12-foot-tall trademark is dressed up as a ghost until owner John Nannini figures out what to do with it. Nannini said this isn’t the first time the mascot has been targeted by Independence Township for violating a […]
A power outage caused by heavy winds left some customers in the dark last Thursday night and into Friday morning. Areas of both Springfield and Independence Townships were affected. In Springfield Township about 2,000 customers lost power. Clarkston residents were a little luckier with only pockets of areas affected. A DTE Energy power outage map […]
BY ANDREA M. BEAUDOIN Clarkston News Staff Writer Katherine ‘Katie? Woloson was experiencing the best years of her life. Katie was young, just 27 and living in Maryland. She was fearless, generous, adventurous, motivated and determined. Katie was a ‘jet setter? her parents Henry and Diane said, and was well traveled with visits to Australia, […]
Rumors abound about haunted places in Clarkston, especially this time of year. For one, the spirit of Enos Church still frequents downtown Clarkston. ‘That guy lived at my house, and he would leave open the door and not shut it. We would even lock the door and the door would still come open,? said Carol […]
Life was bittersweet for children who rode the Orphan Train. Al and Dave Eicher of Program Source International presented the story of orphan children riding the train in search of family at the Clarkston-Independence Library, Oct. 22. Children’s Aid Society (CAS) in New York, founded by Charles Loring Brace, operated the Orphan Train program, which […]
Life was bittersweet for children who rode the Orphan Train. Al and Dave Eicher of Program Source International presented the story of orphan children riding the train in search of family at the Clarkston-Independence Library, Oct. 22. Children’s Aid Society (CAS) in New York, founded by Charles Loring Brace, operated the Orphan Train program, which […]
Clarkston residents receive several services including police, firefighting, and library from Independence Township, but pay about a third more in property taxes. Candidates for Clarkston City Council, Richard Bisio, Eric Haven, Thomas Hunter, David Marsh, and Sharron Catallo have mixed feelings about that. ‘In some aspects they are too high, in others perhaps too low,” […]
M-15 will look and feel a lot better by this time in 2014, officials promise. An 8.6 mile Capital Preventative Maintenance project, which will take place from Dixie Highway to Wolf Road in Ortonville, will include milling and resurfacing work. The project will cost an estimated $4.1 million will be completed in one construction season. […]
Clarkston has been a city since 1992, and all five candidates running for City Council want to keep it that way. ‘I’m not aware of efforts at dissolution since the failed petition drive to have the question placed on the November 2012 ballot,” said Richard Bisio. “The main motivating factor in that campaign was the […]
Five candidates are running for Clarkston City Council in the Nov. 5 election. Former Clarkston Mayor Sharron Catallo is running unopposed for a one-year partial term. Incumbents Richard Bisio, Eric Haven, and Thomas Hunter, and challenger David Marsh are in the running for three, two-year seats on the council. Richard Bisio said he wants to […]