Many children don’t get enough nutritious food, even in Clarkston. For students at Andersonville Elementary this fall, Blessings in a Backpack is there to help. The national program is for students receiving free or reduced lunches during the week at school. They get backpack filled with food on Friday, enough for six meals that weekend. […]
Faced with the loss of a $2,000 state grant for trees, Springfield Township Board came up with a new plan. The Department of Natural Resources grant was originally intended for Dixie Highway and I-75. However, getting state and county permits would have pushed the project to next year. The township would have had to reapply […]
Rapidly changing winter weather and power outages made for a short school week for Oxford students. ‘This is the weirdest winter weather pattern I’ve ever seen,? said Superintendent Dr. Bill Skilling, referring the ‘extremes? the area’s been experiencing lately in terms of temperature, precipitation and winds. Students at Oxford Elementary and Daniel Axford Elementary had […]
The Big Chief Barbershop Chorus has installed new officers for the year 2008. The Big Chief Chorus has 58 members residing in villages and townships across North Oakland County. Starting their term of office in January are President ‘Doc? Mann of Oxford; vice presidents Wayne Cheyne of White Lake, Roger Holm of Clarkston, Jack Teuber […]
Clarkston Mayor Joe Luginski is setting up a subcommittee to look at ways to slow traffic on Main Street, such as crosswalk stripes, solid white lines to narrow main street, and posting electronic “your speed is” signs in downtown. But after talking with Steve Stramsak of Michigan Department of Transportation, City Council decided against a […]
The 125th Davis-Losee-Erwin Cousins Annual Picnic is Sunday, Aug. 21, at Springfield Oaks County Park. Descendants of Davisburg founders Cornelius Davis and Isaac Losee, and early settlers, the Erwins, have organized a picnic in Davisburg every year in August since 1886. Events include opening a time capsule buried at the 100th annual picnic on the […]
Clarkston Are Chamber of Commerce President Lou Melone, left, and Executive Director Penny Shanks receive recognition from Stephen Hyer and the rest of the Clarkston Board of Education. The board voted unanimously Jan. 28 to congratulate the chamber for 20 years of service.
Not many people can say they’ve gotten to lay their hands on a professional athlete before, but Sandy Fritz can. No, the 1971 Oxford grad isn’t a stalker of sports celebrities ? she’s a massage therapist with close to 30 years experience of using her hands to heal, and considers herself an ‘expert in the […]
When 11-year old Kayla Goeringer, a student at Everest Academy, began having swelling in her ankle two years ago, she thought it was nothing more than a bump. Soon after, she was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer, Ewing’s Sarcoma. Goeringer spent the next eight months going through chemotherapy and radiation treatments. She also spent […]
15 years ago – 1996 ‘Radiothon tugs at the heart strings? Clarkston parents Mike and Nancy Weightman hosted their sixth annual radiothon on WCSX-FM, a music rock station. The radiothon raised money for the Children’s Leukemia Foundation of Michigan. The Weightmans were working to give back some of the support they recieved from the CLF […]