Hurt people hurt people. I heard it first from one of my favorite yoga teachers. People who come from a background of abuse perpetuate the cycle. They don’t mean to, don’t want to, it’s just what they know. I’ve written about the family brawls and skirmishes I find in the police reports before, but it’s […]
It’s time to grow up and be a man. Those were the words of Independence Township resident Steven Bailey, 20, as he approached a Dec. 25 graduation from Oakland County’s Boot Camp ? more formally known as the Regimented Inmate Discipline Program. The program, which has turned out 2,740 graduates since 1990, was developed by […]
Four underprivileged Oakland County siblings will wake to find an eye-popping pile of presents stacked under the tree this Christmas, thanks to Santa and his special helpers at Vaughn Chiropractic. For the past 25 years, the Vaughns have made it a Christmas tradition to ‘adopt? a less-fortunate local family through one of the area’s many […]
I love to help otherz. You shood help otherz too. That was the message Collin Walls found scrawled on a sheet of paper and wrapped around a can of food Friday as he sorted through a mountain of goods donated to help local families during the Christmas season. ‘This is why I do this,? said […]
The Board of Trustees approved a pay hike for many of the Springfield Township’s key employees Thursday, while the supervisor, clerk and treasurer all voted down personal raises. None of the township’s employees received a raise last year. Fire Chief Charlie Oaks saw his annual salary rise from $49,000 to $53,500 for 2007, while full-time […]
A brand new sign arrived to replace the worn and rotting Clarkston City Offices marker on Depot Road last week, and three more ‘Welcome to Clarkston? signs are slated for instalation by the end of the year. One of the new signs will mark the north border of town on Main Street, another at the […]
A White Lake Township man in court on charges of domestic violence found himself with a tenfold increase in bond and five new charges after assaulting a judge in 52nd-2nd District Court on Wednesday. Judge Dana Fortinberry told police she felt something whiz by her ear, but had looked down to close a folder and […]
The message sent by Clarkston-area and other county residents on gravel roadways was loud and clear: leave our speed limits alone. The Michigan House of Representatives heard the message, and voted last week to amend the new law’Public Act 85’which mandated removal of speed limit signs and increased acceptable speeds to 55 mph along many […]
The ball is finally rolling. The new Citizens Police Study Committee assembled for the first time Tues., Nov. 28, to begin sorting fact from fiction in the debate over maintaining the status quo with the Clarkston Police, or reverting to fulltime protection from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department. Lopping off the police force would allow […]
BY LAURA COLVIN Clarkston News Staff Writer Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus, right down ? Main Street? Yes, it’s time again for the Holiday Lights Parade, the sixth annual procession of holiday floats, music, and twinkling lights set to wind through downtown Clarkston Sat., Dec. 9 at 6 p.m. This year’s theme, […]