Several area families received special visitors from Germany this past week. As part of the NFL Global Junior Championship X, many Clarkston families, whose children attend Notre Dame Prep School in Pontiac, host members of an all-star football team from Germany. The tournament is a an official event of Super Bowl XL in Detroit ‘We’re […]
Almost three hours of presentations and public comment at the Jan. 19 Independence Township Planning Commission meeting ended with very little action. After hearing presentations from Orco Investments, Township Planner Dick Carlisle and comments from area residents, township planning commissioners voted unanimously to table a rezoning request by Orco and the commission’s own rezoning request. […]
Too often when people get elected to public boards they only run with the pack. It’s as if elected ‘trustees? believe to get along they must go along, rubber stamping whatever proposals that come down the pike. It’s unfortunate, but the public would be amazed at all the 7-0 votes their elected officials put forth. […]
Communication, it’s something we do every day. Communication: Boy, what a physically big, cumbersome word. Communication, an inconvenience or a core function? Apparently to some, when having to discuss local school millages with the community, communication is just that ? an inconvenience and not a core function of the Clarkston School Board. Last week we […]
15 YEARS AGO (1991) ? B&Bs stall: Bed and breakfast facilities still are not allowed in the Village of Clarkston. The Clarkston Village Council took no action on a proposed bed and breakfast ordinance Jan. 28, two weeks after a public hearing on the issue. ? Hibler hired at Wixom library: Nearly six weeks after […]
Independence Township January 11: 54-year-old Clarkston man arrested for operating his vehicle while intoxicated. Police were alerted to the man drinking in his car at a gas station on Sashabaw Road near Maybee Road. The man was also arrested for driving with a suspended license, refusal of P.B.T. and altering, forging and falsifying the car’s […]
An 42-year-old Holly man was struck by a vehicle as he wandered into the roadway at the intersection of Dixie Highway near Big Lake Road at about 8 p.m. on Jan. 17. The southbound vehicle struck the man head-on on the driver’s side. The motorist was a 19-year-old Davisburg man driving a 1999 GMC Sonoma. […]
According to Captain Dan DeLongchamp of the Independence Fire Department, firefighters rescued a dog stuck in a swampy area off Eston Road on Jan. 18 around 10:30 a.m. A firefighter donning a water rescue suit was able to pull the boxer from the mud quickly, said DeLongchamp. The owner of the dog, a Macomb County […]
A bartender at Deer Lake Athletic Club on White Lake Road found a note on her car instructing her to leave the night’s deposit in a plastic bag and stating there was an armed male watching. The 29-year-old employee left work with the nightly bank deposit, her manager and a patron around 1 a.m. on […]
According to Captain Dan DeLongchamp of the Independence Fire Department, firefighters rescued a dog stuck in a swampy area off Eston Road on Jan. 18 around 10:30 a.m. A firefighter donning a water rescue suit was able to pull the boxer from the mud quickly, said DeLongchamp. The owner of the dog, a Macomb County […]