With the holidays right around the corner, the Clarkston Lighthouse is once again counting on the community to come through with donations. This year, for Thanksgiving, the Lighthouse will be providing dinner for 345 families and 125 seniors. Each will receive a box with everything needed to make a holiday dinner so they can prepare […]
Brandon Twp.- Baseball fans around Michigan grieved the death this week of Ernie Harwell, the beloved long-time Detroit Tigers baseball broadcaster. Locally, township resident Ward Stoddard remembered Harwell as not just the voice of Tigers baseball, but as a great person and friend of his for four decades. ‘What I liked about him is that […]
Alex Arnold considers himself lucky. The Goodrich High School senior was driving a friend’s car over the summer when his phone went off in his pocket. He glanced down for an instant to read the screen and his car swerved over the curb, completely blowing out the right front tire. ‘I felt so bad,? said […]
Brian Dorman and Adam Wheatcroft never met, but Dorman believes they could have been friends. Upon learning of the 21-year-old’s battle against cancer (and knowing someone who went to school with him) the director of an Independence Township music academy determined to help the family. “It’s somebody about the same age as I am,” he […]
The Clarkston Community Band is playing good music and having a great time doing it. The group, which started in 1996, is now up to 45 members. Originally it was a 25 member band. The members simply enjoy to play. That is the case with both Fred Sarmiento and Philip Satterthwaite. Both have been members […]
Debra Buxbaum is celebrating this Mother’s Day with a priceless gift? a son who can breathe freely after 24 years of being sick, thanks to a double lung transplant. ‘There are no words to describe watching your son suffocate in front of you and all you can do is pray,? said Debra. ‘I believe in […]
Atlas Township firefighters, along with Davison Township, responded to a grass fire at 3:15 p.m. Monday along Gale Road near McCandlish Road. Township Fire Chief Fred Forys said a passerby noticed the fire along Gale Road and attempted to extinguish the blaze with a piece of carpet. ‘The wind came up and fanned the fire […]
The dedication and hard work she applies to school and service has brought to her the label of good citizen. Clarkston High School senior Jennifer Baibak is a 2004 Good Citizens Award winner denoted by the Sashabaw Plains chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR). The 18-year-old Sashabaw Plains […]
Yes, they’re part of the F.I.R.S.T. Lego League, but they want you to know it’s not what you think. “People think we’re playing with Legos all day. We’re not playing with Legos. It’s presenting, computers, engineering…,” Cedar Crest Academy student and Lego League member Kelly Peters clarified. “It’s a good experience. You get to learn […]
About 13 percent of district voters turned out to elect Niki Wiederman to the Goodrich School Board of Trustees. Wiederman, a former high school biology teacher and current guidance counselor in the Atherton School District high school, received 829 votes for one four-year term on the Goodrich Board of Trustees. Wiederman defeated college student Scott […]