Senior Bailee Braunreuther started playing softball when she was seven on the travel team Brandon Northstars. Her first coach was Don Peters – her current varsity coach for Clarkston softball. Last Wednesday, Braunreuther signed her letter of intent to play for Oakland University after finishing her last year in high school. ‘It’s really cool,? she […]
The sun shined as the Clarkston Chiefs Blue team finished the season against Brandon on November 7. They lost against the junior Blackhawks, 13-0, in the NYFL Super Bowl V. The team hoisted their Division Title/Super Bowl Runner Up trophy in excitement of finishing a spectacular season. It was the first year playing for a […]
Quarterback Tyler Scarlett scanned the field from Clarkston’s 22-yard line and found all his receivers covered. So he took off running. He needed 11 yards for a first down, but kept going past the 50-yard line, pausing near the sidelines to check on the defense. He looked, saw no one around and kept running all […]
The robotics students from Team RUSH 27 were both excited and surprised when they finished second place in the FIRST Robotics State Championship in Grand Rapids, April 11. “I was a little surprised because we were expected to be in 50th place,” said Cody Hughes. “We were expecting to be one of the last picked.” […]
I was writing down all the information about Quarterback Tyler Scarlett’s touchdown near the end of the third quarter when I was caught up in the excitement last Friday. Literally. I was quickly surrounded by all of Clarkston’s gridiron gang celebrating as they were running to the other side of the field. I was a […]
Fourth-graders Aubrie Kelp and Alex Lemanski sat playing a game of Tic Tac Toe last Friday. It wasn’t a normal game ? both were wearing blindfolds. The Pine Knob Elementary students used their hands and the rest of their senses to find their wooden pieces and where they wanted them to go. Their classmates sat […]
Clarkston Junior High School Principal Shawn Ryan accepts the Ready, Set, Success Award on behalf of his entire school. ‘Although the award was presented to me, it’s an absolute reflection of every staff member in this building,? said Ryan at the Clarkston Board of Education meeting, Nov. 9. ‘It’s not a definite person by far. […]
On a sunny day last week I found myself at the Clarkston Community Schools Administration Building. I had three slips of paper in one hand and my favorite ink pen in my other. I was about to select artwork for The Clarkston News to display for the fourth annual Community Art Connection, which is organized […]
Clarkston High School was full of activity last Saturday as girls in Kindergarten through seventh grade stopped by for the first Maker Girl Mania. While there girls were able to get a hands on experience with different activities in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) fields. “Usually the Maker Girl fairs are for a huge […]
Hilarity ensues as the Clarkston High School Drama Club takes the stage in Ken Ludwig’s ‘Leading Ladies? on May 1 and 2. Austin Hauptstueck, as Leo Clark, and Mitchell Biggs, as Jack Gable, are actors trying to make ends meet and then discover a millionaire is dying and wants to give two million dollars of […]