15 YEARS AGO (1990) ? Change of guard in top board post: After ten years of service, Janet Thomas has been replaced as Clarkston Board of Education president. The board unanimously approved John Needham as president of the board, effective immediately. The move was initiated by Thomas, who quickly nominated Needham for the position when […]
Independence Township July 2: Noise violations issued to a 32-year-old Clarkston man and a 38-year-old Pontiac man for shooting fireworks on Independence Drive. July 4: 21-year-old Independence Township man arrested for stealing a license plate, operating while intoxicated and driving without a license on South River Road. The man hit a parked car after apparently […]
A van heading north on M-15 was struck by another vehicle heading west on Waldon and attempting a turn south onto M-15. A 20-year-old male driver was injured and treated. The vehicle turning on M-15 was cited for running a red light.
Much has changed over the last 60 years as people and places come and go, leaving some to wonder if anything stays the same. Through all the years, the Oakland County area has relied on just one thing ? Bill Pascher will be singing in the Pontiac-Waterford Big Chief Chorus. After celebrating 62 years of […]
Too often, the people who created so many of the activities communities enjoy are forgotten as age and time pass. The July 15 Concerts in the Park program will change all that with Senior Appreciation Night, an acknowledgment and message of thanks to seniors whose participation allowed the event to flourish for the past 26 […]
BY HEATHER CLEMENT Clarkston News Writer Not all went well for two Springfield Township women as they began a journey that would bind them as friends forever. Katie Anderson, of the North Oakland Headwaters Land Conservatory, and Donna Clancy, executive director of SCAMP, left on June 9 for the Breast Cancer 3-day ? a walk […]
With less than two weeks before the opening of the Oakland County 4-H Fair on July 26, some are ready for the festivities to begin while others are starting to feel deadline pressure. ‘It’s getting very stressful, but no matter what the fair always comes together,? said Cathy Grain, chairperson of the Companion Animals Committee […]
Like peanut butter and jelly, Ducks Unlimited and the North Oakland Livingston Headwaters Land Conservancy are a natural combination. The two groups are coming together on July 16 at the Waterworks Wetlands in Holly to install eightof the 34 wood duck houses. Children made the water fowl’s new homes at a Ducks Unlimited event on […]
If Stephanie Parkin’s athletic career at Clarkston High School was a mutual fund, even the rockiest economic conditions would not shake her investors ? because in becoming CHS? first female 12-varsity letter athlete Parkin kept a heavily diversified portfolio. Parkin toiled, sweated and competed through four years of basketball in the fall, volleyball in the […]
New Horizons Rehabilitation Services, Inc., in Springfield Township is an accredited, not-for-profit organization currently offering services to 130 disabled men and women from the community. New Horizons provides services that include assessments, evaluations, training, employment services and placement. Consumers, which is what the men and women at Horizons are refereed to as, generally range in […]