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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Gavin Donchez, of Clarkston, was named to the University of Mississippi’s Spring 2023 Honor Roll lists. Donchez, majoring in General Business, was named to the Dean’s Honor Roll, which is reserved for students who earn a semester GPA of 3.50-3.74. *** A total of 12,791 students enrolled during Fall Semester 2022 at The University of […]
Everest’s faculty and staff members were recently recognized for work anniversaries achieved during the recently-completed 2022-23 school year. Celebrating five years were Mattison Hale (back, second from right), Kate Mierendorff (missing in photo), Kelly Loush (back left), Kell Peterson (right), and Catherine Smith (back, second from left), 10 years were Karen Beggs (front, second from […]
North Sashabaw Elementary students Isabella Mick, left, and Harley Birchett pull Kailynn Haynes during a tarp race during the school’s annual Field Day event as part of the end-of-the-year activities at the school, June 6. See more photos from Field Day events at Clarkston Elementary and North Sashabaw on pages 11 and 18 of this […]
Carter Smith, of Clarkston, was named to the Dean’s list at Miami (Ohio) University for the 2023 spring semester. Miami students who are ranked in the top 20 percent of undergraduate students within their division for the spring semester 2023 have been named to the Dean’s list recognizing academic performance. Smith is earning a B.S. […]