A few weeks ago, Assistant Superintendent of Administrative Services John Lucido and Director of Student Growth and Well-Being Staci Puzio hosted well-being focus groups with staff to learn how the district could support positive morale going into the last few months of the school year and recognize the sacrifices being made by our staff each […]
Deputies and the Independence Township Fire Department responded to the 5000 block of Algonquin Boulevard, March 16, on the report of a male subject who had shot himself. Deputies determined the 65-year-old Independence Township man was obviously deceased. Paramedics sent telemetry to McLaren Clarkston Hospital where a physician pronounced the subject deceased.
Clarkston resident Kevin Wayne VanLuven was unwittingly recorded during a home inspection allegedly pleasuring himself with an Elmo doll on March 12. The 59-year-old man was arraigned on April 7 on two misdemeanor counts – aggravated indecent exposure and malicious destruction of property under $200 – in 52-3 District Court in Rochester Hills. Magistrate Karen […]
Jurassic Quest Drive Thru, the nation’s largest and most realistic dinosaur experience, launches its Midwest tour in April, and will make its return to the parking area of DTE Energy Music Theatre beginning on Friday, June 18 and running through Sunday, July 4. In August 2020, nearly 34,000 families or more than 125,000 people experienced […]
BY MATT MACKINDER Clarkston News Editor Anne Baldwin admitted participating in beauty pageants was never something that crossed her mind. Last year, the 2004 Clarkston High School graduate came across the Mrs. Michigan America pageants (part of the Mrs. America system) and thought, “Why not?” “It’s been a year of so much sadness and frustration […]
Natalia Gergle, Noah Bridger, and Mariah Drye, all of Clarkston, were named to the Dean’s List at Saginaw Valley State University for the Fall 2020 semester. To be eligible for the Deans’ List, a student must take at least 12 credit hours and carry a semester GPA of 3.4 or better. *** Elizabeth Smith and […]
Barbara J. Richards, of Clarkston, passed away April 11, 2021 at the age of 88. High school sweetheart/wife of 70 years of D. Bruce, mother of David (Debra) Richards, Michael (Eve-Marie) Richards, and Julie (Mike) Kotyk, grandma of Dustin (Nicole), Andrew (Brooke), and Kaitlyn Richards, Erin (Chris) Larkin, Allison, Alex and Jason Richards, Joel, and […]
James Charles Coates died peacefully on March 23, 2021, at the age of 93 with his wife Kathleen by his side in Melbourne, Fla. Jim was preceded in death by his parents Proctor and Irene Coates, his sister Mary Lou Ostien, and brother Harold Coates. His birth family is whole once more. Godspeed. Survived by […]
Joan A. Schirle, of Pontiac, passed away on April 9, 2021 at the age of 90. Preceded in death by her husband Thomas. Mother of the late Linda (Jim) Stong, Diane (late Tom) Waite, Thomas Schirle, Phil (Lisa) Schirle, David (Lori) Schirle, and the late Mary (Jeff) Stewart, grandma of Jeff (Jennifer), Scott (Renee), David […]
James L. Richardson, of Clarkston, passed away April 5, 2021 at the age of 88. Born June 11, 1932 in Petersburg, Mich., the son of Donald and Virginia (Lewis) Richardson. He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Marlene, two daughters, Mary (Charles) Rood, and Susan (John) Joseph and three grandchildren, Carly Joseph, Bobby […]