Teams of third-graders were busily counting up tokens to see which earned the most when doors burst open, two masked men ran through throngs of screaming 8-year-olds, kidnapping their guest of honor, Wolfie, Clarkston’s school mascot, right from under their noses. The kidnappers demanded a ransom ? a plastic jar filled with tokens, but none […]
Nothing’s off the table when it comes to this year’s school budget. Still early in the budget process, Superintendent Dr. Al Roberts presented a list of possible money-saving measures to Clarkston Board of Education at its Jan. 26 budget workshop. The board will consider them all. “I wouldn’t pull anything off the table at this […]
Deep in the heart of Independence Township, a small team of highly skilled specialists works hard to bring mechanical beings to life. And they have a waiting list, said Timothy S’lberg’of S’lberg Studios Inc. “I’ve always been interested in puppets and robots – I thought they were cool,” said S’lberg. “I was always drawing them […]
The time for trimesters may be coming to an end in in Clarkston. A Scheduling Task Force of administrators and teachers is recommending Clarkston Community Schools go back to two semesters per year. “This is a much different time,” said Assistant Superintendent Shawn Ryan, reporting to the school board, Monday. “We’ve faced struggles we couldn’t […]
This fall’s count day showed a reduction in Clarkston Community School student population, as officials expected. “We anticipate, before the official audit from Oakland Schools, a loss of about 70 students, which is where we budgeted,” said Superintedent Dr. Rod Rock. With state funding of $7,140 per pupil in the 2014 school year, that would […]
Mark Beauchamp of Clarkston has been to about 1,000 Major League Baseball games in his life. Game 4 in the Detroit Tigers? American League Division Series was the first time he took part in one. ‘I never thought I’d be part of the game ? it was pretty surreal,? said Beauchamp, who fumbled a flyball […]
As the fog rolled in Saturday morning, I found myself on a deserted road with no clear idea which way to go. A parked SUV came into view, with a ‘Clarkston Dance Team? decal in the back window. This was a problem. I had run by a suspiciously similar looking vehicle about 10 minutes earlier. […]
A common question fellow teenagers ask of German exchange student Sarah Schilling, 17, regards her home country’s drinking age. “It’s 16 for beer, 18 for the harder stuff. They ask, ‘then why did you want to come here,” said Schilling, visiting Clarkston from Das Alte Land, near Hamburg, Germany. “I tell them, because I want […]
Two men jailed in connection with a bank robbery near Ann Arbor are being investigated for last week’s Oxford Bank robbery in Clarkston. “They match the description pretty good ? the FBI is handling the case,” said Lt. Dirk Feneley, Independence Township sheriff’s substation commander. Cedric Thompson of Detroit, 44, and Darren Shannon of Ferndale, […]
Engineers from around the world came to Clarkston to learn the latest in water sanitation, Sept. 27 at Colombiere Center. “There are people attending from Lebanon, Tanzania, Engineers without Borders, Rotary International in Evanston, Illinois, as well as people from around Michigan and other states,” said Eileen Heasley, who founded the nonprofit group of A […]