Dear Editor, Over the past few weeks, there have been many anti-mobile home park letters, each of which have mentioned the $36 paid by mobile home owners. These people seem to feel that is all we pay. Let’s look at facts instead of claims. Mobile home parks are owned by corporations, who pay property taxes, […]
Dear Editor, There seems to be plenty of talk and opinion on the trailer park issue for Goodrich/Atlas. It is sad that anyone feels it is necessary to attack one person’s view as though that person spoke for an entire community. As to not upset, but rather agree to disagree, a trailer park has many […]
Dear Editor, An Open Letter to the Ortonville Village Council: As I wrote to Sue Bess, Chairperson of the Council, it is not effective to spray the ball fields to kill mosquitoes. First, there are no mosquitoes there to kill. They are off in adjacent properties, hiding in shaded areas during the day. Also the […]
The following is public information from official documents, including written statements, handwritten eyewitness accounts, court recordings and press releases from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department substation, Brandon Township, and the Michigan State Police post in Groveland Township. Belligerent OUIL On Sunday, June 1 a 21-year-old Ortonville man was observed swerving all over the road, while […]
On Sunday June 8, 2003, 139 graduates gathered in the Goodrich High School gym. Valedictorian was Christina Saindon.
Here in the home of the brave and land of the free we, each of us who cares, is a slave to ‘elections.? It is a fact. The very thing that keeps us free in this democratic, representative republic — elections — is holding us down. Elections, elections, elections. It is not that we have […]
Every so often I ask daughter Susan for a Trevor fix. He and his twin sister, Haley, 3 and a half, keep their parents alert and sometimes entertained. It was 4 a.m. when Susan heard Trevor call for her. She went in and asked, ‘What is it, Trevor?? He said, ‘I love you, Mommy!? ‘That’s […]
15 YEARS AGO (1988) ? This year’s July 4 parade through downtown Clarkston will have an added feature. After driving in the parade, members of the Clarkston Touring and Chowder Society are organizing an antique and classic car gathering in Clarkston’s Depot Park. Those who own such vehicles are welcome to add their vehicles to […]
Sashabaw Middle School students took over the Dairy Dream parking lot at Maybee and Sashabaw for a last day of school shaving cream fight. Katie Bryant, Hillary Eslick, Jessica Beck, Natalie Sumerlin, Sara Attou and Jade Badger show off the results. Photo by Jennifer Nemer.
Even before the results of the school election were known, the Clarkston Board of Education voted Monday, June 9 to raise salaries for all employee groups. In all categories, employees will receive an increase of at least 2 percent in the 2003-2004 school year. Raises for the following year, depending on employee classification, will depend […]