A Highland Township couple was arraigned on three counts of armed robbery from a July 28 bank heist at the Comerica Bank inside the Kroger store at 6625 Dixie Highway in Independence Township. Michael Wade Carter, 43, and Aretha Deanna Carter, 31, were arraigned in 52-2 District Court by Magistrate Thomas Raguso on Aug.1. They […]
United States Congressman Mike Rogers, R-Brighton, was in Clarkston on Aug. 4 speaking to constituents about local issues. Rogers and his committee were on a bus trip traveling through his district and made their stop at the Independence Township offices on Main Street after visiting the Village of Lake Orion. The first issue brought to […]
Small pests are causing large problems for some trees in the area and residents are being encouraged to help stop them. The Emerald Ash Borer is a dark metallic green color and only one-half inch long and one-sixteenth of an inch wide. The creature belongs to a group of insects called metallic wood-boring beetles, according […]
Army Staff Sgt. Caine Johnson returned home from Germany on July 25 to a grand ‘welcome home’party with family. Johnson, a 1991 graduate of Waterford Kettering High School, is living in Clarkston for the first time. ‘We’ll be here for a while,? Johnson said. Johnson is home with his family ? wife Tonya and children, […]
Clarkston graduate Keith Voorheis was a member of the Alaska Adventure PAC tour, which completed a tour of Alaska along a 12-day, 1,300-mile trip that started in Anchorage, Alaska on July 9. ‘It was absolutely beautiful,? said Voorheis, a 2006 graduate of Clarkston High School. He added getting use to the sun lighting the sky […]