It’s hard to avoid cliches when offering condolences to someone who has lost a loved one. It’s also hard when you’re feeling the pain yourself. It’s been a rough year in several respects, not the least being I’ve lost two friends in recent months. Steve had a heart attack at work in March of this […]
Karen Foyteck gives a relatively short answer when describing the role of a school board president. “I always laugh and say I’m a traffic cop,” she said, “which really means I run the meeting.” Foyteck was elected president of the Clarkston Community Schools Board of Education last month, succeeding outgoing president Kurt Shanks. Now beginning […]
The Clarkston Community Schools Board of Education meeting room took on airs of a courtroom Monday, as school district attorney George Butler said newly-elected Trustee Tony Miller cannot continue as a Clarkston High School football coach. “The board was sworn to uphold the law, and the law is clear regardless of personal feelings,” Butler said. […]
With promises to work for maximum tree conservation, the Independence Township Board last week voted to approve a cost sharing agreement for the paving of Holcomb Road. A July 15 tie vote had stalled plans by the Road Commission for Oakland County to pave the current gravel section of the road between Reese and Davisburg […]
One way or another, there will be two deputies on duty in Clarkston Community Schools this fall. With Supervisor Dale Stuart and Trustee Daniel Travis dissenting, the Independence Township Board on Tuesday, Aug. 5 voted to pay the entire cost of a second school liaison officer. The vote came with a “99 percent” expectation that […]
Servers at the Clarkston Union have noticed a “dip” in drink business since the announcement of a new state definition of drunken driving. “Instead of coming in and having three or four drinks, they’re only having one or two,” according to Erich Lines, manager at the Clarkston Union. The downtown establishment posted the story from […]
As president of the Clarkston Farm and Garden Club, Diane Midgley would like to see more people seeing green. “We take pride in Clarkston, and we want people to enjoy the beauty of Clarkston, and feel welcome when they arrive,” she said. Toward that end, the club maintains the flower barrels in downtown Clarkston and […]
Were it not for the malfunctioning traffic signals, it might have been mistaken for a normal, pleasant summer evening in downtown Clarkston. People were walking dogs, sitting on benches and steps, passing the time as long as daylight would allow. Valerie Hulderman came out of Rudy’s Market on Main Street, having purchased “salad fixins” with […]
The attorney representing Clarkston schools Trustee Tony Miller has filed a lawsuit in Oakland County Circuit Court challenging the claim that Miller cannot also be a Clarkston High School football coach. Attorney Arthur Weiss said Monday he filed the suit Thursday, Aug. 14, and an evidentiary hearing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Sept. 3 before […]
Kelly Bridgewater admitted her personal passion as the wife of an Independence Township firefighter, but she said her motivation was that of a concerned Springfield Township resident. “Until I started asking questions, I didn’t realize what we did not have,” she said, referring to what she called a “deficient” emergency medical services system. At the […]