Amy Wilson of Clarkston, hygienist at Clarkston Family Dental, stopped by Clarkston Elementary on Feb. 17 to demonstrate good dental care. February is National Children’s Dental Health month, so Wilson and fellow hygienists at Dr. John Foster’s practice demonstrated the importance of brushing and flossing.
Oxford residents who didn’t mail back their 2010 United States Census form can expect a visit from Sue Kinch’s crew. Kinch, a village resident, is leading a team of Census employees who will hit the streets the first week in May in an effort to count the uncounted. ‘The government is sending out people to […]
When Addison voters go to the polls Aug. 3., they will be asked to renew their police millage. Last week, the Addison Township Board voted unamiously to ask voters to renew the current 3.4874-mill tax, which funds the community’s police services contract with the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department. The previous millage expired with December 2009 […]
American Water in Clarkston headed to Mission of Hope in Flint, Feb. 15, to deliver a truck filled with hundreds of gallons of bottled water to help people in the water crisis. ‘I felt like helping because clean water is so important,’said Jim McNulty, owner. McNulty said Flint officials have trouble storing the massive amounts […]
Clarkston Area Optimist Club honored three Outstanding Student Citizens, Feb. 17. Madeline Caldwell is a fourth grade student at Springfield Plains Elementary. “She’s a gift to humanity,” said her teacher, Heidi Kroll. “She’s strong. Nothing disturbs her peace of mind.” Caldwell was student council president in third grade. She bakes, is active in basketball, dance, […]
Three Oxford elementary schools have achieved the highest environmental designation in Michigan and one of them is among the top three schools in Oakland County. Clear Lake, Daniel Axford and Lakeville elementaries all earned Evergreen status under the Michigan Green Schools Program, a statewide initiative launched in 2006 and open to all K-12 schools, public […]
Fueled by a combination of alternative energy and the competitive spirit, some Daniel Axford Elementary students spent part of Earth Day (April 22) racing the solar cars they built. Teams of second-graders used the almost limitless power of the sun to fuel small vehicles they constructed from special kits purchased by their teacher Colleen Kazor. […]
The Lady Wolves are moving onto the MHSAA Competitive Cheer Regional meet after finishing in third place in the district meet last Saturday at Lake Orion. Clarkston scored 749.2. They scored 226.5 in the first round; 211.3 in the second round and 311.4 in the final round. Lake Orion finished as champions with a total […]
BY AALAYNA GREEN Special to the Clarkston News After the bell rings and other students flee their classrooms, Clarkston High School Poetry Club commences and room 209 comes alive with the sounds of pens and keyboards. Poets lounge across desks, under tables, or with their feet propped as they add stanzas to unrequited-love poems or […]
Fourth- and fifth-grade students at Leonard Elementary took time out of their busy day on Friday, April 23 to watch the Village of Leonard plant a tree in honor of Earth Day. The weather was perfect, sunny and hardly a cloud in the sky as the Village planted a white oak tree at the Polly […]