NoHaz, Oakland County’s consortium of 17 communities that provide residents with a safe, reliable and environmentally responsible way to dispose of household hazardous waste, sponsors a poster contest to educate and engage fourth- and fifth-grade students about the importance of those responsibilities. Taking first place in the contest was Adelaide W., a fifth grader at […]
BY MATT MACKINDER Clarkston News Editor The Walk and Roll event, benefiting Clarkston SCAMP, is returning live after a two-year hiatus. The event is Sunday, May 1, at Depot Park, with registration starting at 11:30 a.m. and finishing at 3 p.m. There will be one- and three-mile loops participants can use for walking, running, biking, […]
Members of the Clarkston High School Drama Club go over a scene from their upcoming show “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.” Photo by Wendi Reardon Price
The annual lock-in at Everest Academy is a night of fun, tie-dye shirts, games, movies, dancing, and more for the middle school girls. For international students, it is another important event of their final months at Everest. Several high school girls volunteered to help lead activities for the evening back on April 1. Photo provided […]
Clarkston Area Lions Club Treasurer Jerry Baumgart presents Clarkston Independence District Library Director Julie Meredith with a donation to The Friends of the Clarkston Independence District Library. The annual library donation is used to provide resources for the sight impaired. Past-year donations have been used towards the purchase large print books, talking books, a Merlin […]
Dear CCS Community, I have had the pleasure of reading to our students in their classrooms over the past month. This tradition in March was something I enjoyed but took for granted in the past. This time, I soaked up every bit of their laughter, infectious smiles, and excitement to learn. My days have been […]
BY MATT MACKINDER Clarkston News Editor Yasmine Stahlmann would rarely go more than a few days without knocking on a door or visiting a Bible student as part of her volunteer ministry. That abruptly changed in the spring of 2020 when Jehovah’s Witnesses suspended their in-person public ministry, meetings, and large conventions. Two years later, […]
BY MATT MACKINDER Clarkston News Editor Over the winter, the Clarkston Independence District Library started a new program called “Meet Your eLibrary,” an initiative to utilize the extensive eResources available through the library. The local David W. Elliott Memorial Foundation provided a $5,000 grant to the Friends of the Clarkston Independence Library to help support […]
As of April 13, here are the reported number of COVID-19 cases, deaths, and new cases in the past 30 days for the Clarkston ZIP codes: April 13: 48346: 5,356 cases (40 new), 67 deaths 48348: 5,867 cases (45 new), 41 deaths 48350: 1,813 cases (12 new), 13 deaths As compared to April 6: 48346: […]
The Clarkston Interact Club continues to astonish their sponsor, the Rotary Club of Clarkston, recently raising $350 for the cemetery restoration project in Clarkston and collecting and donating clothes, blankets and shoes for Carriage Town Ministries in Flint. Interact has now raised $735 and donated it through the Rotary Club for the Dolly Parton Imagination […]