A group of local officials and volunteers are working to ensure Depot Park blooms majestically this spring and summer. As part of the Depot Park Environmental Project, members of the Clarkston City Council, River of Life Group of St. Daniel’s Church, North Oakland Headwaters Land Conservancy and other area volunteers have met four times since […]
Major Damon Shields of the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office used to wonder why officers sent to the FBI National Academy returned with a yellow brick. This past fall, Shields found out. He received a yellow brick of his own after graduating with 246 other police officers as part of the academy’s 223rd session which ran […]
Do Clarkston residents use the Independence Township Library? That question was posed at the Feb. 13 Clarkston City Council meeting, as council members debated whether or not to renew their intergovernmental agreement with the township. The agreement that expired Dec. 31 makes library services available to Clarkston residents. By the end of the night, the […]
Students at Pine Knob Elementary were struck for just a brief moment by Cupid’s arrow on Feb. 14. Pictured here is second-grader Delaney Brown making a valentine.
Area residents struggling with debt and plagued by horrendous financial decisions have a new place to look for help. Every Monday and Tuesday at 6 p.m. a new show called ‘Get My Drift? airs on public access channels 10 and 20 for Independence Township residents. The show, filmed at Comcast Cable TV at 5255 Maybee […]
Lesson from this weekend, learned while stopping in the White Lake Inn Saturday night: everyone looks tall in a room with short ceilings. Lesson learned at recent meetings by the Springfield Township Board and Clarkston City Council: pay attention to what elected officials do now, it’ll tell you more than what you learn during campaigns. […]
In the streets of downtown Clarkston, young Frank ‘Tink? Ronk and his friends could play baseball all day and only move for one car. That was a simpler time for Clarkston ? and for the boy who’d play in those streets. He’d one day end up running Ronk’s Barbershop, where everyone in town went to […]
Friends of Independence Township Urbain family have rallied to host a benefit concert to help as father and husband Richard fights stage-four pancreatic cancer following his July 2005 diagnosis. The concert is on March 4 from 4:30p.m.?11 p.m. at Clarkston High School atrium and cafeteria. According to concert organizer and friend Beth McCoy, the Urbain […]
Police, Independence township officials and local banks are planning to meet in the near future to share ideas and express concerns following two bank robberies January bank robberies in the area. ‘The purpose is to get all the banking professionals, law enforcement officers and township people in the same room,? said Sergeant Matt Baldes of […]
A Warren man faces charges after he barricaded himself in a Rattalee Lake Road residence on Feb. 20 and threatened to commit suicide ‘all while an 86-year-old Independence Township woman was still in the residence. The man willingly left the house around 9 p.m. and was arrested and taken to Oakland County Jail without incident […]