Finding that one individual to be the Annual Strawberry Festival’s Special Person is a difficult task for the event’s committee. Year after year, committee members must shuffle through recommendation after recommendation of wonderful area residents. But this year’s selection was as simple to piece together as strawberry shortcake. Mrs. Georgie Edwards, 85, represents everything the […]
After starting as just the glimmer of an idea inside a newspaper classified, the Oxford Women’s Social Club has taken on a life of its own. Since officially forming the group in October 2003, Women’s Club Founder and Organizer Linda Grunewald is proud to report that the group signed its 100th member, Cheryl O’Mara of […]
Can you imagine this: 12 years ago Dale Stuart ran on ‘It’s time for a change,? ‘Lets end the conflict between the township and the schools, provide full disclosure to citizens, and when taxpayers say no to new projects, it means no.? There are so many more things that are too numerous to list. The […]
Well, it’s starting. After reading last week’s letter to the editor in The Clarkston News from ‘Slick? defaming Dale Stuart, our township supervisor, and recently receiving candidate Dave Wagner’s negative rhetoric aimed in the same direction, I personally feel compelled to offer some commentary of my own as we head into the local primaries. I […]
If ‘children count in Clarkston? as the Clarkston School Board states every time they want more money, where were they when the high school girls softball team, for the first time in school history, was playing in the semi-finals for the state championship in Battle Creek? You would also think the athletic director for the […]
With the Fourth of July behind us, I would like to address the excessive use of fireworks in our own backyards. City of Clarkston offers a free great fireworks display, as do other neighboring parks. They do it one night for one hour. But fireworks night after night, for hours at a time is simply […]
Why do two employed male sodomites lose benefits because of a ban on gay immorality? It is not marriage in which they wish to engage. It is double dipping at the trough. If they are working for universities, corporations or municipalities they are well covered individually. Those who are truly married and raising and educating […]
We the people expect our elected officials to be ethical, credible and fair in responding to the needs of residents and businesses in Independence Township. Bureaucratic bickering, endless delays and micromanagement serve only to frustrate and inevitably slow the pace of progress. We need a leadership team that will keep these hindrances to an extreme […]
I have known Colleen Murphy for many years through the University of Michigan. She is of the utmost character and intellect. I am sure she would make a great judge for the following reasons…. ? She was a former member of the White Lake Township Zoning Board of Appeals ? she resigned this campaign in […]
With all the discussion about funding the senior center, has anybody suggested a volunteer-build center? Beverly Hatcher Clarkston