Students at Clarkston Elementary School ended their school year with a “SPLASH.” In the school Academic Service Learning project, called Students Practice Learning And Service Here, students bought and planted flowers and trees, mulched, lay brick pavers, and installed a bench, all to beautify one of the school’s back entrances. “The entrance was drab,” said […]
Michigan Association of School Administrators awarded its 2008 Regional Champion for Children Award to Stephen Hyer, president of Clarkston Board of Education. “I don’t know what to say ? thank you very much,” Hyer said at the June 9 award presentation. “It’s my privilege to represent Clarkston schools and public education across the state.” Hyer’s […]
Working on her school science projects, Jessica Caruso has learned about potential and kinetic energy, and solar and wind power. She also learned another lesson for next year’s project: start early. When she performed her field tests for this past school year’s project on wind and solar energy, it was winter. The weather was less […]
Sashabaw Middle School students Ashton Krueger, Veronica Block, Caroline Blassick, and Phoebe Morris took on 60 teams from around the world in Future Problem Solvers’ world competition, June 1, at Michigan State University. They beat them all. ‘I never thought it would happen,? Blassick said. ‘I was so excited, I couldn’t really think.” ‘It was […]
Rory and Judy Windrim of Springfield Township had an idea for retirement ? a 4,200 trip to Alaska on a motorcycle. Then they thought, why wait? ‘Who knows what our situation will be,? Judy said. ‘We’re healthy now.? ‘We’ve been planning this for more than a year, seriously for about six months,? Rory said. They’re […]
The last time Drew Fries took a day off from school, he was a fourth-grader at Springfield Plains Elementary School. Now a graduate in Clarkston High School’s Class of 2008, he attended more than 1,400 days of school without missing any, despite occasionally being under the weather and a broken collarbone at high school football […]
BY PHIL CUSTODIO Clarkston News Editor Class of 2008 graduates, who had the honor of being the youngest students at Clarkston High School two years in a row, got some of the respect they deserve at their Commencement, June 4. ‘A new legacy was born with us,? said student Molly Goss to her fellow graduates, […]
Leon Sawyer, who lives on about an acre on Clarkston Road, had an unusual visitor May 29 “A turkey was pacing back and forth, trying to get through my fence,” Sawyer said. “I opened the gate for him and after he came in, I shut it. I got him some feed and I called to […]
The American Red Cross is hosting its first Clarkston Community Blood Drive, Thursday June 19, Friday, June 20, and Sunday, June 22. ‘The community has lots of smaller blood drives, through businesses and churches,? said organizer Christie Kojima. ‘We want to pull everyone together into one big blood drive ? it’s a way to build […]
When a group of local businessmen heard one of the community’s longest-run golf courses might be closed and turned into a subdivision, they took action: they bought it. Keith Patten, Chris Loridas, Bill Wint, Jim Schmidt, Tom Brown, and Rick Brown are now the proud owners of the old Liberty Golf and Banquet Club on […]