Friends open karate, weight-training studio

Decades of experience and know-how have merged into Master Bill’s Karate and Better Bodies at 5907 Dixie Highway inside Independence Commons. Master Bill Snyder, who has about 50 years of experience, heads the martial arts center. Snyder has opened martial arts facilities around the United States and the world. The Independence Township location is his […]

Vball for a V cause

Most volleyball matches are played to earn a victory, but at Clarkston High School March 28, teams of students and staff from throughout the district worked to raise money for cancer research. The fourth annual Staff versus Student Volleyball Tournament, teamed with district-wide Show Your Spirit Day nearly two weeks earlier, raised $4,200 for The […]

Out of time at Adams

As horns sounded in Rochester Friday evening, it wasn’t from rush hour traffic. Rather, many Rochester Adams fans had retreated to their cars in the parking lot overlooking the baseball diamond to root for their home team Highlanders on a chilly afternoon. The car-dwellers had much to honk about when Matt Petrusha hit an inside […]

Athletes of the week

The Clarkston High School Powerlifting team got over it’s third-place hump at the state championships at Muskegon High School March 17. The sixth-year program won it’s first state championship by squeezing out a 73-point performance to defeat their hosts by three points. The Wolves had 11 top-10 finishers, including three individual state champions: Aaron Sharp […]

Wolves look to Ogg, Howard and Hall on the diamond

Clarkston’s baseball team lost some of its top players after a district championship 21-13 season in 2006, but coach Phil Price is confident in the Wolves? returning starters and its younger players. ‘We’re going to be scrappy and I like what I see so far. The kids are working hard and I think we’re going […]

Girls’ lacrosse learning early on

March 29 is a day that will go down in Clarkston High School history. The night saw the first varsity girls lacrosse game take place at the football stadium and the Wolves tried their hardest to make the inaugural match a victorious won, but came up short, in a 13-11 loss to Flint Carman Ainsworth. […]

Solid D will lead softball team

A loss in the first round of the district playoffs in 2006 left a sour aftertaste for a 24-13 Clarkston softball team. Third-place in the OAA I a year ago, the Wolves return leaders Caitlin Morris (SS), Katie Smith (RF), Kara Wandrie (2B) and fellow third-year starter Lindsey Upchurch (CF). Coach Don Peters expects leadership […]

Party of seven

What a long, but educational journey it’s been for the Kupe family. After the family’s beginnings in Africa and expansion in Germany, the family is putting down roots in the Clarkston area. The family patriarch, Dr. Joachim Kupe, moved to Michigan with his wife, Dr. Anne-Marie Kupe, from Germany 10 years ago. The family has […]

Athletic equinox

BY PAUL KAMPE Clarkston News Staff Writer After nearly a decade of litigation and preparation, Clarkston’s coaches said they and their athletes are prepared for a change in the wake of a judiciary decision made last week. Starting in the 2007-?08 school year, girls basketball will move from the fall season to winter to coincide […]

Athlete of the week

Mid-fielder Stephen Giannaris is anchoring the offense of a team on the cusp of an explosion. The three-year Clarkston varsity lacrosse player is an important part of the Wolves 2-3 record accrued leading up to the spring break. So far, Giannaris has scored 11 goals and thrown two assists as well as fielding nine ground […]

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