Clarkston State Bank, the wholly owned subsidiary of Clarkston Financial Corporation, has promoted Kristy L. Ehlke to Assistant Vice President of Operations and Angela K. Logan to Branch Officer. Dawn M. Horner, President and CEO, announced the appointments. Ehlke is one of Clarkston State Bank’s original employees. She joined the then start-up community bank as […]
Kaleidoscope Foundation (formally known as Northwest Oakland Community Services) hosted their 12th annual benefit Golf Scramble in May. A total of 100 golfers turned out to support this organization and its programs. The emcee was Dennis Neubacher from Channel 7 News in Detroit. Kaleidoscope Foundation, based in Davisburg, provides recreational programs for developmentally challenged adults […]
The skies will light up over Independence Township on July 4. Just be careful not to cause any fireworks driving home. At their Tuesday, June 17 meeting, the Independence Township Board approved three separate fireworks displays for Independence Day. All will occur at approximately 10 p.m., according to the applications. Permits were approved for the […]
In other business at the Tuesday, June 17 meeting of the Independence Township Board: ? On their consent agenda, trustees approved second reading of a new storm water regulation ordinance, which includes provisions for a special ‘Sashabaw corridor? drainage system. The ordinance establishes township-wide storm water regulations for new development, but gives those in the […]
Education and larvicide are the primary weapons to help prevent spread of the West Nile virus in Independence Township. At a special meeting Thursday, June 12, trustees voted to approve a strategy including educational brochures mailed in property tax bills, application of larvicide in areas where carrier mosquitoes may breed and limited aerial spraying of […]
Clarkston Community Schools have been recognized for outstanding effort and commitment to improve mathematics instruction for teachers and students through a four-year Michigan Middle School Mathematics Reform Project. The initiative, led by a district leadership team, involved 300 hours of professional development for middle school teachers, biannual conferences for the leadership team and workshops for […]
When entrepreneur Kathryn Kinney’s career first began it was quite different than what it has become today. The Clarkston resident had pursued figure skating since she was five-years-old. But while auditioning for the Ice Capades in Los Angeles in 1986, the then 36-year-old had a career-ending accident on the ice with a fellow skater. Kinney […]
BY JILLIAN QUINLAN Clarkston News Intern Life was very different for Penny Shanks when she first moved to Clarkston 10 years ago. At the time she was a stay-at-home mother of two balancing her parental duties with volunteer work. Today her boys, Jonathon and Jim, are grown and off to college while she has a […]
Trees will be planted as a lasting tribute to the service of Kurt Shanks and Janet Thomas, whose final school board meeting was Monday. The Clarkston Board of Education voted June 9 to plant a tree in a location chosen by each. With each tree will be a commemorative plaque noting their years of service. […]
My Aunt Janice Pearl Housekeeper e-mailed me a cute little story the other day. I may have heard it before, and so too may have you. That said, it’s still cute and will make you smile. * * * The Outhouse Once there was a little boy who lived in the country. They had to […]