Building a hands-on future

Building a hands-on future

By Matt Mackinder Clarkston News Editor Summer vacation began just a bit later for Brendan Verbeke, and he was fine with that. During the week of June 19-23, Verbeke made his way to Atlanta for the Skills USA National Competition in carpentry, a week-long event involving team building activities, networking with industry professionals, and an […]

College achievements

Clarkston student Allison Mayo-Moyle was named to Albion College’s Dean’s List for the Spring 2023 semester. Mayo-Moyle is majoring in Biology with a minor in Psychology and is a member of the Prentiss M. Brown Honors Program. Mayo-Moyle is the child of Amy Mayo-Moyle and Mike Mayo-Moyle, of Clarkston, and is a graduate of North […]

Everest earnings

Everest earnings

Everest Academy President Michael Nalepa, left, recently presented the Fr. Lorenzo Gomez Renaissance of Values Scholarship, a one-time, $6,000 scholarship to a student’s high school tuition, to Virginia Groves, middle, and Susan Nedwick, second from right. They are flanked by their mothers Holly Groves and Mary Nedwick. Photo: Provided by Mary Roselli

Scholarship honorees from ‘23 Clarkston class

Scholarship honorees from ‘23 Clarkston class

The Clarkston Farm and Garden Club honored scholarship winners at a luncheon on June 26. Scholarship winners for 2023 are recent 2023 graduates Phoebe Savoie, Kayla Cole, Kara Bowles, and Bedford Muzzy. Savoie will be going to Cornell University for health sciences. Cole heads to Adrian College for pre-veterinary studies. Bowles will be attending Northern […]

Battle of cardboard boats begins

By Wendi Reardon Price Clarkston News Staff Writer Clarkston High School Team RUSH Robotics students are hard at work prepping for the annual RUSH Regatta at Deer Lake Beach, July 8. Students break into teams and build a boat made of only cardboard and duct tape to sail on the lake. The ultimate prize is […]

College achievements

Rachel Raupp, of Clarkston, who is studying Architecture, has made the Dean’s Honor List for the Spring 2023 semester at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. Rensselaer’s Dean’s Honor List is compiled at the end of each semester to recognize undergraduate students who have completed 12 or more credit hours with a 3.5 grade-point average […]

Clarkston teachers participate in National Endowment for Humanities project

Clarkston teachers participate in National Endowment for Humanities project

By Laura Mahler Special to the Clarkston News Three Clarkston teachers recently participated in a public history project entitled Voices: Exploring the Past & Imagining the Future. This collaborative initiative between the Oakland-Flint Writing Project at the University of Michigan-Flint, Stockton Center at Spring Grove, and the National Endowment of the Humanities offered them the […]

GUEST COLUMN: Reflecting on high school years at Everest

Some of the things that have changed about me since freshman year are my maturity, understanding of things, relationships with people, as well as my relationship with God. When I was a freshman, I did not know what to expect going into high school. I thought that nothing would be hard until junior year or […]

Clarkston robotics gets $10K grant

Clarkston robotics gets $10K grant

By Matt Mackinder Clarkston News Editor The David W. Elliott Memorial Foundation routinely donates money to assist local Clarkston groups and organizations push forward with their initiatives. Recently, the foundation awarded a grant of $10,000 to the Clarkston robotics program, Team RUSH 27. “RUSH will use the funds for a new scholarship for seniors, robot […]

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