Dear Editor, THANK YOU to Jim Sherman Sr. for finally seeing the mural project as many of us village residents do! For those who live so close, it is a sad piece of art to look at every day. Not a pleasant, warm, community reflecting mural. I love art and this is not good art. […]
15 years ago – 1995 ‘Going for country music’s ‘brass ring?? Scott Davis of Clarkston debuted his new country music band, performing at Cactus Jack’s Country Dance Hall in New Baltimore. He played guitar, sang, and wrote his own music. ‘Racer urges academy to ‘take it to the limit?? Students in the brand new Oakland […]
CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF INDEPENDENCE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING 2016 BUDGET A Public Hearing will be held by the Charter Township of Independence Board of Trustees in the Township Hall Meeting Room, 6483 Waldon Center Drive, Clarkston, Michigan 48346 beginning at 7:00 PM on Tuesday, November 24, 2015 for the purpose of presenting and receiving comment […]
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Charter Township of Orion Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 7:05 p.m. in the lower level of the Orion Township Hall, 2525 Joslyn Road, Lake Orion, Michigan 48360, on the following matter: PC-2013-19, Text Amendment to Zoning Ordinance No. 78, Zoning Consolidation, Articles […]
Dear Editor, I attended the CCS Board meeting on Feb. 22. I am very concerned about proposed budget cuts and the impacts they will have on children in the district. My husband and I moved to Clarkston from Waterford in 1999 primarily because of the superb reputation and exceptionally high MEAP scores within the district. […]
Dear Editor, The Clarkston PTA Council, representing approximately 8,000 families in Clarkston Community Schools, urges the Board of Education to preserve the people, programs and tools that contribute to the distinctiveness of the educational experience found here. So many of the items under consideration ? if cut ? will diminish our competitive advantage as a […]
NOTICE TO USERS OF LAKE ORION Notice is hereby given that beginning the week of October 19, 2015, the level of Lake Orion will be slowly lowered about one (1?) foot to reach the normal low water mark for Winter. Lowering will not flood Paint Creek and the lowering will be completed by the second […]
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Charter Township of Orion Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 7:05 p.m. in the lower level of the Orion Township Hall, 2525 Joslyn Road, Lake Orion, Michigan 48360, (immediately following PC-2013-19, Zoning Consolidation Text Amendment public hearing) on the following matter: PC-2015-34, Woodside […]
Steve Porter’s a man who wears many hats. He’s a church pastor, police dispatcher, small business owner and a local Realtor. Now, the 61-year-old lifelong Addison resident is looking to be the next District 1 representative on the Oakland County Board of Commissioners. ‘I am not afraid of a challenge,? Porter said. ‘I think difficult […]
When disaster strikes, some are content to do nothing. Others are moved to send money and supplies. And then there are special folks like Kim Warda, who take a break from their everyday lives to give of themselves. The 39-year-old Oxford resident and Emergency Room nurse at Beaumont Hospital-Troy spent Feb. 11-17 in Haiti helping […]