The report itself is only 41 pages. But to fully understand cost and revenue, cooperative structures, applicable technology, or implementation of a solid waste authority, Resource Recycling Services prepared seven appendices to accompany the document. All totaled, the Capital and Cooperative Initiatives Revolving Fund (CCIRF) study report is nearly 500 pages. Interested residents will have […]
New life arrived at an empty building in downtown Clarkston recently, but some residents say they’re not happy about the tenants. Two businesses have already set up shop in the old Independence Township Hall at 90 N. Main Street in downtown Clarkston’a local photographer and a computer-related venture’and two more are lined up to go […]
The woman accused of embezzling money from PTA groups at two Clarkston schools will pay $26,400.83 in restitution. Diane Weller, 44, pled no contest Aug. 3 in Sixth Circuit Court, accepting plea bargain terms for probation and lesser charges in exchange for repayment to both Pine Knob Elementary and Sashabaw Middle School PTA funds. ‘I […]
When an Independence Township man woke one late July morning to discover his laptop’left in an unlocked car outside his home’had been stolen by thieves in the night, he sprang to action. Using a different computer, the man went to Craigslist.com, a local and mostly-free online forum featuring classified ads in categories like jobs, services, […]
The decision was difficult for both the artist and the man who hired’and ultimately fired’her. But difficult or not, Jim Sherman Sr., who owns The Clarkston News building in the city’s downtown, said the decision has been made, and it’s final. On Thursday, Sherman asked artist Michelle Tynan to put down her paint brushes and […]
Local governments should move forward to establish a solid waste authority. That’s the word from Resource Recycling Systems (RRS), an Ann Arbor-based firm retained earlier this year to evaluate and report on alternatives for current residential garbage hauling and recycling practices in seven North Oakland communities. Advocates of establishing such an authority have repeatedly touted […]
Six Clarkston candidates declared intent to run for city council in the November election, turning in required paperwork by the Aug. 4 deadline. Four seats are up for grabs; Voters will elect three city council members for two-year terms, and one member for a one-year term, at the Tuesday, Nov. 3 election. Incumbent Jim Brueck […]
A Sashabaw Middle School teacher is facing charges for alleged inappropriate communication with a student. Police in Independence Township said Michelle Simonson, a special education teacher at SMS, admitted she exchanged approximately 50 text messages’some sexually explicit’with a 14-year-old boy, and also sent the youth a partially nude photo of herself via cell phone. Simonson, […]
Most of the two dozen plus who attended Monday’s Clarkston City Council meeting weren’t interested in the council’s agenda; they came with their own. And it was all fine until two women from the Clarkston Farm and Garden Club–one of whom had already taken her opportunity to speak–got rude and disrespectful when another woman–NOT of […]
One in every 69 homes fell into foreclosure in Independence Township last year’a total of 195 homes lost in 2008 alone. Proportionately, the number was slightly higher in Clarkston, with one in 71 families caving to foreclosure under the pressure of a sinking economy. The numbers, provided by the Oakland County Management and Budget Equalization […]