A woman wandered hopefully through the front door of the Clarkston News? office a few weeks back, explaining that she was eager to find a picture of a mom and her little girl, a photo that had run in our paper back in the early ?90s. She was the mom, and the little girl was […]
Deciding what to do with leftover promotional merchandise was a snap for local businesswoman Cheryl Bean. She knew her surplus could bring peace of mind and possibly mean the difference between life and death for someone in her community. So on a recent sunny afternoon, Bean piled dozens of brand new, still-in-the-box fire extinguishers and […]
When 17-year-old Michael Zukoff stepped up and offered to plan and build an outdoor sanctuary at his family’s Clarkston church, he knew only one thing for sure ? if he was going to do the project, he was going to do it right. Then a junior at Brother Rice High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michael […]
The employees at Chase Plastics popped their umbrellas bravely up last Thursday and marched into the November wind and rain to celebrate groundbreaking of the company’s new building. Although the weather was nothing to cheer about, the company’s executives and employees all welcomed the project’s kick-off. ‘The start of this building is a testament of […]
Heidi Coats-Frobel hopes eight months of renovations at the funeral home her family has owned since 1925 will make the task of planning a funeral a little bit easier for local residents. Coats Funeral Home on Sashabaw Road in Waterford recently completed a project designed to give families the option of holding a funeral luncheon […]
If you walk into Java Flix and overhear the owners talking about green beans, rest assured ? they’re not talking about the long, slender vegetable that grows up a trellis in backyard gardens everywhere. They’re talking about unroasted coffee beans, green from the tree. As the owners of Beanstro, a specialty coffee roaster, Paul and […]
It was really close. Just 31 of the 465 votes cast in Clarkston’s mayoral race nudged incumbent Sharron Catallo to a narrow victory over challenger Steve Wylie. Wylie was the first candidate to oppose Catallo since 1992. ‘This election was very good for me,? said Catallo. ‘I had to reconsider a number of old ideas […]
The sixth- and seventh-graders didn’t waste any time once they arrived at the huge old house on Main Street. With a crew of five girls and six boys, the CCD class from St. Dan’s Catholic Church in Clarkston got busy raking, bagging, and carting away a yard full of fallen leaves at the home of […]
An Independence Township family got a rude awakening when their home was hit with buckshot just after 6:00 a.m. Monday. Patrick Lee was standing by the front window talking to his son, Corey, 11, when he heard a loud pop and looked down to see that the outside window had been hit and cracked in […]
Nothing puts life in perspective faster than a trip down to the police station. I make the drive a couple of times each week so I can compile enough information to fill the ‘Police and Fire? section on page 9A of The Clarkston News, and regardless of how my day is going or how many […]