The time for crunching numbers and deciding how much money gets spent where is upon the Clarkston City Council again. Two dates in June are set for the council to review and approve the 2006-07 budget. On June 6 at 6 p.m., the council is holding a special meeting to discuss the upcoming budget. On […]
With the deadline to file for elections passed, two men from area townships plan to run against incumbent John Stakoe for state representative of the 44th District. According to a candidate list for the August 8 primary election on the Oakland County Web site, Democrat Mark Venie of Davisburg and Andrew Goss of Independence Township […]
The scene was an A & W Rootbeer commercial. Lomas Brown of the Detroit Lions was there, but the Root Bear mascot supposed to be sporting the bear outfit was not. The bear was needed for the commercial so in stepped sports agent Mike Zehnder. That day is forever commemorated on the walls of Zehnder’s […]
Few figures were more controversial in the 1990’s than assisted-suicide proponent Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who was sentenced in a Michigan court to 10 ? 25 years in state prison in 1999 on a second degree murder charge following the 1998 death of Thomas Youk. While Kevorkian sits in his jail cell in Coldwater, Michigan, his […]
The Clarkston Police Department has a Swat now ? an officer John Swatowski, that is. Swatowski spent 35 years with the Detroit Police Department before retiring last February. He joined the Clarkston P.D. earlier this month after coming out of retirement. ‘I got bored sitting at home. You can’t sit at home for four months […]
79-year-old George Vine teared up when he received his birthday gift this year at the World War II History Days at American Legion Post 377 on June 3. The West Bloomfield resident was able to do something he’s been waiting about 60 years to do ? thank members of the United States Army’s 101st Airborne […]
Over the weekend, two different motorists with repeated prior drunk driving offenses lead police on chases in parts of Independence and neighboring townships. Fortunately, no injuries were reported to anyone but the drivers, as one suspected drunk driver allegedly tried to ram a police car and the other rolled his car in a residential neighborhood […]
Police in Independence Township are in the process of submitting an arrest warrant for a man suspected breaking a vehicle windshield, aggravated assault and detonating three chemical bottle bombs in the front yard of a May 29 party on Whipple Tree Lane. The incident took place around 3:10 a.m. after the suspect allegedly started a […]
With baseball games available on television, the internet and cell phones, many would think listening to games on the radio a thing of the past. After talking with Independence Township resident and play-by-play voice of the Detroit Tigers Dan Dickerson, nothing could be further from the truth. Dickerson made his Tiger broadcasting debut in 2000 […]
Christmas is coming in the fall for area children ? ‘Christmas at the Candle Factory? that is. As author and Clarkston resident Barbara Johns prepares to release ‘Christmas at the Candle Factory? in September, she is scheduled to read her first book ‘The Cat in the Candle Factory? at the Independence Township Library on June […]