Clarkston News phones were ringing off the hook last week as candidates reported election signs missing in action. Sandy Dubre, running for Independence Township treasurer, said she received a call at 10 a.m. last Thursday morning about a witness who saw someone steal her signs. ‘These are people who gave me permission to have my […]
Faced with rising prices of just about everything, some Clarkston residents might catch a break ? a new federal floodplain map may mean they no longer have to buy flood insurance. ‘The new revision reduced areas that were originally in the flood zone in what I think pretty significant fashion,? said City Manager Dennis Ritter. […]
It took a little good-natured deception to get Steve Ronk to accept his “Fire Chief of the Year” award publicly. ‘I’m not a limelight guy,” Ronk said. “Anything I do is not for the point of accolades or awards or anything else, but this was nice because it came from other fire chiefs in the […]
With election season for president every four year comes not only voting for township leaders, but millages as well. Independence Township Fire Chief Steve Ronk asks voters to renew the township’s Fire and Emergency Services Millage, collecting $5.4 million each year. ‘It is our complete operational budget,? said Ronk. ‘There is no other funding for […]
A couple weeks ago Steve Ronk was named ‘Fire Chief of the Year? by the Michigan Association of Fire Chiefs. Over the past year I have had the honor of getting to know Steve a little bit and I can tell you he is one of the most genuine men I know. President Dwight Eisenhower […]
Women of the Optimist Club were seen in Depot Park last Saturday scraping paint, sanding off rust, and putting fresh primer on train and caboose’s monkey bars. Meanwhile the Optimist men where seen with drill guns, washers, and screwdrivers trying to put together what started out looking like a spaceship and ended as a Merry-Go-Round, […]
Three seats and the mayor’s are up for grabs on the Clarkston City Council as November is re-election year. Petitions are due Aug. 4. City voters elect or reelect three council members to two-year terms each November. Even numbered years also include the mayor as a fourth candidate. Seats for the taking include Mayor Sharron […]
The fifth annual Craig Greenfield Memorial Tri & Duathlon will be held Sun, Aug, 3 starting 7:45 a.m. at Deer Lake Beach and Depot Park. ‘We’re hoping for another good year,? said Corey Greenfield, who organized the event after her brother Craig Greenfield died from non-Hodgkins’s lymphoma in 2000. ‘Our whole goal is to help […]
As parents prepare to send their kids off to college for the first time or the fourth time, Greg Olrich, fire marshal with the Independence Fire Department, is urging parents and students to be smart and think fire safety when it comes to choosing housing, either on campus or off. “I think it’s important the […]
From the classroom to the road, Clarkston High School students Antonio Lemus and Mat Smokoska are spending their early summer days helping Independence Fire Department Step into the 21 century. They are using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) to identify and record satellite locations of all the fire hydrants in the […]