Clean-up, May 9

Springfield Township will hold its annual Spring Clean-up Day on Saturday, May 9. For a fee?$1 per car; $5 per minivan/SUV; $10 per pick-up truck’residents may drop off household waste materials. If possible, bag, box or bundle all trash. Items not allowed include brush, farm tractor tires, leaves or grass clippings, stumps, oil, propane tanks, […]

Cutathon for mission trip

Glitz of Clarkston, 7198 Ortonville Road, hosts a cut-a-thon fundraiser, 11 a.m., Sunday April 19, for Clarkston Mom Squad. Mom Squad members Shelley Schafer, Danette Meny and Melanie Traver are traveling to Nicaragua, May 16, with the group Living Water International to help drill a well for a local village. They will also work with […]

Oxford FD to seek tax renewal, plus 1.4-mill hike

Additional manpower, additional station space and a couple of refurbished trucks. That’s what the Oxford Fire Department says it needs to continue effectively serving residents. To make it all happen, township officials last week voted 5-2 to authorize Fire Chief Pete Scholz to work with the township attorney to compose ballot language for the November […]

Cops, firefighters honored by Legion ladies

Three people who protect residents and keep them safe on a daily basis were honored Sunday by Oxford American Legion Ladies Auxiliary Unit 108. Oakland County Sheriff’s Deputy Brad Ostrander and Oxford Village Police Officer Clint Ascroft were each presented with ‘Most Outstanding Police Officer of the Year? awards, while Oxford Firefighter Carl Rose was […]

Chiefs golf, May 9

Chief Pontiac Baseball Club’s golf outing is Saturday, May 9, at Fountains Golf Club on Maybee Road, between Dixie Highway and Sashabaw Road. Registration forms can be found on: http://chiefpontiacbaseball.org.

Gove-Miller

Mike and Kaki Gove of Clarkston are happy to announce the engagement of their daughter Jamie Leigh Gove to Mark Elton Miller, son of Jim and Lou Anne Miller of Tekonsha. Jamie is a 2007 graduate of Albion College and a teacher for the Kalamazoo Public School District. Mark is a 2003 graduate of Kellogg […]

Muscle-man shatters records

By Dan Shriner Review Editor He may not wear a cape, leap over tall buildings and no one thinks he’s faster than a speeding bullet but that thing about being more powerful than a locomotive might not be too far off for Lake Orion’s superman Trenton Elkins. The Lake Orion High School senior recently competed […]

Township chips in for road improvements

By Meg Peters Review Staff Writer In light of the recent state funds set aside to nurture Michigan’s crumbling road system, Orion Township approved the allocation of $50,000 from their general fund at the’Monday night board meeting March 17 to tidy-up some of Orion’s worst roads. Township Supervisor Chris Barnett added the emergency-road-repair agenda item […]

Breaking down the MEAP

Considering raw MEAP scores, Clarkston schools are 11.67 percent better than average. But there’s more to it than that, school officials say. Clarkston schools combine MEAP scores with classroom grades, tests and other assessments to determine priorities and where funding and resources should go, said Stephen Hyer, president of the Clarkston Board of Education. “We […]

Color guard champ

Olivia Packard of Clarkston, fourth grader, with her coaches Cedric Nicholson and Ben Clark of Lake Orion Performance Ensemble-C, holds the first place trophy for Michigan Color Guard Circuit State Championships, March 28 at Saginaw Valley State University. This is the first year Olivia and her squad members participated in Color Guard. Photo submitted