Dear Editor, In response to the complaint about cutting teachers and having 34 students in a fourth grade class, I have attached a picture of my 1951 fourth grade class at St. David School in Detroit. There are 51 students ? count them. Mrs. Jacques didn’t have any trouble dealing with that many students. We […]
Dear Editor, Since Trevor Keiser and I both recorded the meeting, I was wondering if The Clarkston News was going to report on the tone, if not the details, of what happened. While it was obvious that Mr. Cousens was trying to illicit certain responses and actions from the commission. I was surprised they almost […]
Orion Township will soon be offering its used computer equipment for sale to the public. The board of trustees voted April 5 to allow buildings and grounds director Reenae Tulip to advertise the sale of several CPUs. monitors, a printer and fax for sale. The equipment will be awarded based on the township’s disposal of […]
Orion Township trustees voted April 5 to authorize the supervisor and clerk to sign the 2004 community service contracts. The board also authorized preparation of the contribution checks the township has budgeted for the services for 2004. Each group submitted a financial report of how they spent their 2003 funds, in order to receive their […]
Dear Editor, The Friends of the Springfield Township Library had a free raffle to celebrate “Love Your Library Week” in February. Unfortunately someone stole the adult prize package from the library before it could be awarded. Due to the exceptional police work of Oakland County Sheriff’s Deputy Peters, with assistance from Meijer’s, a suspect has […]
Cheese: My youngest daughter’s name is Chelsey. She’s 13 years old, has medium length, brownish hair, which she wears in a pony tail (often off to the right side, opposite of her bangs). She likes basketball and works hard at school, which comes fairly easily to her. She can entertain herself for hours on the […]
Port-a-johns will soon be supplied to three township parks. The Orion Township Board of Trustees voted on April 5 to spend $1,450 to supply a port-a-john to Friendship Park (Clarkston and Baldwin Road), two to Civic Center Park (Joslyn Road next to Township Hall), and one to McConnell which is located in the village but […]
Sashabaw Middle School’s Destination Imagination team put their creative ideas and ability to think on the spot to the test, Feb. 26, tying for first place in regional competition. This is the second year the team, Caroline Dargay, Anne-Marie Dargay, Kalei McLennan, Mitchell Page, Alex Pouttu, and Andrew Ross, placed first.? Last year they made […]
Investigation continues into a March 7 house fire in Springfield Township in which a resident was fatally injured. Springfield Township firefighters responded to a residential structure fire in the 17000 block of Julie Drive, 6:41 p.m., March 7. Donald Austin Jr., 48, of Davisburg was taken to Genesys Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at […]
Paint Creek Elementary School Principal Beverly Tepper made good on her word at the end of March. She promised her students she would be duct taped to the commons area wall if they read at least 100,000 minutes during the month (Reading Month). Actually, the minutes totaled over 610,000. Eight hundred students got a chance […]