Hundreds arrived with lawn chairs, blankets and coolers packed with cold drinks and sandwiches Friday for the season’s first free concert at Depot Park. The event featured Legend the Band, a Detroit-based group performing hits from the 50s, 60s and 70s. ‘We come every year,? said Jennifer Syron, who attended the concert with her husband […]
Challenging the appearance of disinterest in Clarkston’s 2007-2008 proposed budget’by community and city council members both’Councilman and budget committee member Cory Johnston delivered a bleak outlook on the city’s financial future. At June 11 public budget hearing, attended by two residents, Johnston warned that the city will face economic ruin unless the council begins to […]
Officials are reconsidering a shared-service study after an acrimonious start threatened to thwart efforts and redraw old battle lines between Clarkston and Independence Township. ‘We had a really good positive meeting with the city (of Clarkston),? said Independence Township Trustee Dan Kelly, who proposed the feasibility study in March, claiming taxpayers could save as much […]
I’m in love with a boy I haven’t yet met. Two more weeks, maybe three, til I finally hold him in my arms and kiss him and kiss him and kiss him and kiss him. Sigh. I can’t wait. I was stunned into a long silence when my barely 20-year-old daughter Christy told me she […]
The sharp detective work of area youngsters helped bring a teen boy safely home recently after he fell prey to a smooth-talking Internet predator. Although the teen’a fictional character called Zackman’was part of an interactive computer game, his pretend dilemma helped Sashabaw Middle School seventh-graders learn some very real lessons about staying safe online. Students […]
A 44-year-old woman spent part of Friday morning trapped under the ice cream truck she was driving after a tire blew out and caused the vehicle to careen across the road and flip on its side. The woman was transported to Genesys Hospital in Grand Blanc with serious injuries, including trauma caused when her leg […]
A River Day 2007 project attracted about two-dozen people carrying rakes, shovels and buckets brimming with community spirit to downtown Clarkston Saturday to help with a new Watershed Group project. The group installed a new garden, set up an informative native-plant display, and even made a few varieties of natives available to local gardeners. River […]
Michelle Tynan believes a certain amount of risk is necessary to her art’and her life. So, although The Clarkston News mural is by far the largest project she’s yet tackled’the wall measures 3000 square feet’Tynan knows she’s on the right track. Tynan, an Independence Township resident, had her eye on the building for several weeks […]
The Clarkston Police Department expects to officially reclaim its midnight shift and resume a 24-hour presence in the city beginning at 11p.m. June 30. After nearly six-and-a-half years of outsourcing midnight services, the city council voted unanimously to cancel a subcontract with Independence Township for midnight policing provided by the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office. Returning […]
Eleven resumes from applicants interested in serving as Clarkston’s next police chief had arrived in the city mailbox as of Monday, and will be turned over to a committee appointed to begin the selection process. Advertisements were placed with two sources, said City Manager Art Pappas, including the Michigan Municipal League. Resumes will be accepted […]