View Newspaper Group Owner and President Rick Burrough is proud to announce the locally-owned newspaper company has acquired the business operations of Sherman Publications, Inc., which includes the publications Lake Orion Review, Oxford Leader, Ortonville Citizen, Clarkston News, Ad-Vertiser, Penny Stretcher, and Big Deal. “The Sherman family’s local news legacy, which dates back to 1955, […]
BY MATT MACKINDER Clarkston News Editor Steve Percival was a lot of things over the course of his 58 years. The 1981 Clarkston High School graduate, who passed away on March 31, was a former mayor of Clarkston, played Santa Claus in the city’s Holiday Lights Parade and for private parties, tree lighting ceremonies, and […]
As of April 6, here are the reported number of COVID-19 cases, deaths, and new cases in the past 30 days for the Clarkston ZIP codes: April 6: 48346: 5,349 cases (39 new), 66 deaths 48348: 5,857 cases (44 new), 41 deaths 48350: 1,809 cases (12 new), 13 deaths As compared to March 30: 48346: […]
The Clarkston-based Blue Heron Headwaters Conservancy has a new face on its staff. The conservancy announced last week it has hired Justin Kellner as the new director of donor engagement. A Davisburg native who served in the U.S. Navy for six years, Kellner is now pursuing a Master’s in Public Administration from Oakland University, located in […]
(This is in response to the column entitled “Let the sun shine on open, transparent government,” Lake Orion Review, March 16, 2022, Page 7) Dear Editor, I missed this last week, Sunshine Week, and want to add that a resident of the City of the Village of Clarkston spent five years battling the city for […]
We received the news last Tuesday that our company had been sold (See Pages 1, 4, and 5 in this edition.) And while my three years here pales in comparison to a great deal of my colleagues, I have grown to deeply enjoy the folks I work with and the Sherman family as a whole. […]
In partnership with Independence Township, the Road Commission for Oakland County expects to begin the third year of resurfacing roads within the township this month. The projects are being paid for primarily with special property-tax millage dollars approved by township voters in 2018. As a result of the millage, nearly all main roads in the […]
BY BRANDON KATHMAN Special to the Clarkston News The Boy Scouts of Troop 189 will host a pancake breakfast in partnership with Clarkston United Methodist Church on Saturday, April 16, the proceeds of which will help those displaced by the war in Ukraine. “After watching the news, we were inspired to find a way for […]
The month of April has arrived and with it comes the Clarkston Area Youth Assistance Pinwheels for Prevention program. Since 2016, this program has been coordinated for the Clarkston community and coincides with the nationwide campaign for April that is Child Abuse Prevention Month. The pinwheels campaign proactively promotes the health and well-being of local […]
Michele Ann Ranck, of Lapeer and Clarkston, passed at home on March 28, 2022 in Thompsonville, Mich. She was born September 23, 1955 in Toledo, Ohio. Daughter of deceased Wilbur A. Andrews and Dolores A. Welbur of Hadley, Michigan. Attended Birmingham Groves High School and graduated in 1974. Married Michael D. Ranck on March 20, […]