The Clarkston Area Optimist Club hosted 85 young people for their annual Tri-Star basketball competition on Tuesday, March 9 at Anderson Elementary school. Trophies were awarded to the following winners: ? 13-year-old Boys: Brooke Davis, first place; James Reamer, second place. ? 12-year-old Girls: Kayla Barnes, first place; Carlie Sanchez, second place. ? 12-year-old Boys: […]
Mrs. Davis? kindergarten students at Clarkston Elementary School dress as their favorite storybook character for Character Day, March 25, in honor of March Reading Month. Photo provided
Since March 14, Clarkston School Board have been staying an extra 30 minutes after meetings to work on board operating procedures. The school board discussed revising policies to improve flow of information from administration to the board, including personnel changes, information requests with the superintendent, and superintendent review. The next board meeting is April 11, […]
After reapplying for application, the Clarkston Historic District Commission approved improvements to 164 N. Main, March 29. Improvements included installation of vertical panel siding, a rear deck, three driveway-facing steel insulated garage doors, two vinyl insulated three-over-one windows and three separate service ‘person-sized? garage doors.
Clarkston Post Office, 5799 S. Main Street, hosts Passport Day, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, April 9. Citizens must apply in person for a passport if applying for the first time, under age 16, previous passport was issued when under age 16, previous passport was lost, stolen, or damaged, previous U.S. passport was issued more than […]
The Birdfeeder and Clarkston Flower Shoppe hosts a visit by the Easter Bunny, posing for photos 12-4 p.m., Sunday, April 17. The event, at 7150 Main Street, also includes a petting zoo with miniature horse and donkey, goats, sheep, calf, alpaca, bunnies and ducks. Call 248-625-1399 for more details.
15 years ago – 1996 ‘Township moves forward on Sashabaw? Independence Township Board agreed widening and improving Sashabaw Road was the next logical and needed step in its development. They worked to set up a Special Assessment District to help fund the proposed $5 million project. ‘Marathoners addicted to their sport? Clarkston runners Dan Stencil, […]
Dear Editor, Linda Grogan seems really offended at my suggestion that students can learn in large classes (“Students different now, reader says,” March 30). She first claims that classroom content is different now. We studied English, literature, mathematics, science, history, civics and, since it was a Catholic school, religion. This was the generation that put […]
Dear Editor, Thank God for a voice of truth and reason in this letter to the editor (“A call for more school savings,” March 30). I wish the unions would stop with the talking points and face the facts. I work with Michigan’s municipalities and school districts and for the most part they are the […]
Clarkston fifth-grade science teachers learned about the forest as a teaching tool at the Project Learning Tree workshop, March 25, at the Lewis Wint Nature Center in Independence Oaks County Park. The workshop was led by Ada Takacs of the Michigan DNR. Project Learning Tree is a national program founded in 1976 that uses the […]