Independence Township July 18: Police tasered a man three times as he resisted arrest near Brandon Landing on Ortonville Road. The 38-year-old Brandon Township man allegedly refused to leave the bar after the staff asked him. Witnesses reported he was swearing and yelling. He also allegedly pushed a patron who tried to take his beer. […]
On June 29 an unknown man drove up to a vehicle driven by a Holly woman and exposed himself as the two vehicles drove along I-75 near East Holly Road. The woman attempted to read the license plate number of the red four-door Dodge Ram, but the man slowed down rapidly and exited at East […]
When the first members of Bridgewood Church moved into Independence Township on Sashabaw Road three years ago, they could sometimes hear critters running in the ceiling during service. With the opening of their new facilities on the corner of Rattalee Lake and Ortonville roads, church officials hope to usher in another kind of pitter-patter. The […]
The field was already built, the players were already there, but members of Chief Pontiac American Legion Post 377 knew some improvements needed to be made. The refurbishment of Post 377’s baseball field was thrown back and forth for years, but with a college development program starting next year, this summer was the time to […]
Jake Meissnest got a tune-up for his college football career at Saginaw Valley State as a member of the Michigan High School All-Star East team. The East team lost a 30-20 contest to the West squad on July 23 in a game played at The Big House on the campus of the University of Michigan […]
The Boosters are not the only Clarkston area entity to get a slice of the Buick Open pie. On July 30, Oakhurst Country Club and Golf Club will host a members-only Pro-Am, featuring players who do not make the cut for the weekend action at Warwick Hills. ‘In the past, the Buick Open has always […]
With an event the size of the Buick Open, there is a mass amount of planning, paperwork and people needed so everything comes off without a hitch. Members of the Clarkston Athletic Boosters will be at Warwick Hills in Grand Blanc from July 25-31 helping out, but everyone associated with the tour is probably hoping […]
In creating the Craig Greenfield Memorial Triathalon and Duathalon, Corey Greenfield found a way to celebrate her brother’s passions, while fighting against the disease, non-Hodgkins lymphoma, which took his life in the winter of 2000 at the age of 32. Corey Greenfield’s vision was realized with help from her family and friends ? and the […]
In the end a move to Waterford for the Clarkston Relay for Life meant one thing ? the fight against breast cancer and message of perserverence in the face of adversity were spread to a bigger audience. Due to construction projects at both the high school and junior high tracks in Clarkston, the relay found […]
While most people only experience the violence and turmoil in the Middle East through TV and newspapers, Annette Thomas experienced the tension first-hand on several occasions. Thomas developed an interest in the plight of refugees at an early age through her mother, a Czechoslovakian refugee. While traveling in Jordan to visit friends in 2002, a […]