Council candidates didn’t knock on doors, develop campaign platforms or dot the landscape with expensive signs this election season. With three candidates running for three seats in the uncontested Clarkston City Council race, incumbents Jim Brueck and Cory Johnston will likely return for a second term, joined by council newcomer Peg Roth. Polls open Tues., […]
What’s funny about deadly assassins, Russian agents and a Doomsday machine in the hands of a raving lunatic? Everything, if you’re seated in Clarkston High School’s Performing Arts Center when The Pink Panther Strikes Again cast takes the stage for a hilarious performance Thursday and Friday evening. The play, according to Dramatic Publishing, brings to […]
Each fall, thousands of fans from across Clarkston show up to watch the Wolves play’and win, more often than not’another game of football. But staging the game involves a good deal of effort from many who, for the most part, operate behind the scenes. Volunteers man the gates, sell tickets, prepare and sell food, then […]
Children dressed in all manner of costume converged on Clintonwood Park Saturday for some pre-Halloween trick-or-treating fun. Kids went from station to station, collecting candy and other treats. The annual event was hosted by Independence Township Parks and Recreation.
A long series of semi trucks rumbled in and out of Clarkston High School’s parking lot last weekend, interspersed with trailer-toting parents and one busload of musically inclined young people after another. The high school students’several thousand’arrived ready to march, and took to the turf off Flemmings Lake Road dressed in garb ranging from formal […]
The man accused of breaking into a Clarkston home and stealing guns, jewelry and hundreds of dollars in loose change was arrested and jailed after police apprehended him in a nearby yard last week. Kurt Alan Thayer, 43, was charged in the 52-2 District Court and held on $500,000 bond, no 10 percent cash surety. […]
Every once in a while, Dale Ryan connects with someone who finds him very familiar, yet can’t quite place the face. But it usually doesn’t take the person long to realize it’s not Ryan’s appearance they identify with. It’s his voice. Every Friday night each fall, Ryan and his crew climb into the press box […]
It’s back to the drawing board for rezoning plans in Springfield Township. Township trustees flatly refused a request by the planning commission Thursday to appoint a steering committee to study hotly contested rezonings. Property owners? concerns about the proposals need to be solved by the planning commission, officials said. ‘It is’my opinion that the township […]
The man accused of killing off-duty Flint police officer Vincent D’Anna was bound over Monday for Circuit Court trial after two days of testimony’including graphic and emotional eyewitness accounts of the accident scene. Ramon Felix Pineda, 25, an illegal Mexican immigrant, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of D’Anna, 26. Six witnesses took […]
I’m thinking of calling my column The Ryan Report. That’d be cute. Then I can find all kinds of reasons to write about my Lil? Sweetie. Ryan recently developed an adorable little smile, for example. This is big news. Better yet, I know exactly how to make that lil? smile lift one corner of his […]