Fathers, friends, and other family members filled Bailey Lake Elementary’s cafeteria for Donuts with Dad, Dec. 5. The annual PTA event takes two days to fit in everyone, and is scheduled with the school book fair every year, said Andrea Beauchamp, chair along with Christy Kreucher. “It’s a way for dads or someone special to […]
Clarkston artist Jan Mayer’s Christmas cards for 2015, featuring a snowy caroling scene, are available at Clarkston United Methodist Church office, 6600 Waldon Road. Packets of 10 cards are $15; signed and numbered, limited edition 11-by-14 prints are $35 each. All proceeds from the sale of the cards and prints will be used by the […]
Dear Editor, With the start of the school year, many sporting events are already up and running. Players love to have family and friends come and cheer them on. I think it is great that this year students are able to purchase a pass to all home sporting events to help curb the overall cost […]
Dear Editor, This letter is in regard to the ‘Village council candidates sound off on the issues? article in The Review on August 26. Doug Hobbs, Lisa Yee and Mike Toth all brought up the issue of heroin use. Now don’t get me wrong–I am 100 percent against illegal drug use– but are you kidding […]
Prudential Great Lakes Realty of Clarkston is collecting new boots and donations for Health Alliance Plan’s Boots for Kids Campaign. Boots and donations will be collected at Prudential Great Lakes Realty, 20 W. Washington, Suite 5C, Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., until March 1, 2015. ‘Last year alone, we collected more than […]
Brandon Twp.- Jacob Michael Young, 17, has been charged as the individual who threatened a shooting in the school district this week. Young, a Brandon High School senior, was arraigned Dec. 11 in front of 52-2 District Court Judge Kelley Kostin with one count of making terrorist threats, a 20-year felony and/or $20,000 government reimbursement, […]
Dear Editor, New things keep arising at the Clarkston Farmers? Market like tomatoes, artisan breads, caramel corn, great heaps of blueberries, fresh eggs (get there quick, they sell fast!), flowers, potatoes and organic beef, and now, fair trade organic coffee by the cup and bean to support a new partnership that the market has, with […]
15 years ago August 31, 1994 ~ Angela Holmquist, then 6, helped rescue a man drowning in Lake Orion. When she saw him fall in, she ran home and asked her mom to phone 911. Holmquist said she knew to call for help from watching the show 911. ~ Peter Kemp was appointed to Orion […]
I was born August 10, 1926. And, contrary to most American’s perceptions of Christmases from the mid part of the last century, it wasn’t all like the black and white movies of the time. For my first 10 or more years, no one in our home said, ‘Merry Christmas.? My father was a Jehovah’s Witness. […]
As I look back upon the thrilling holidays of yesteryear, I have come to believe those Christmases Past were, indeed, magical. They were always white with snow. Everything sparkled. No strife. No sadness, only smiles and love. * * * One year, maybe nine, 10 years ago, while watching the annual showing of Rankin-Bass? animated […]