Terri Trantham and Diane Moeller opened Express Weight Loss and Wellness, 6647 Dixie Highway, to make a difference in people’s lives. ‘We’ve seen how weight affects people, their quality of life,? Trantham said. ‘It’s emotionally upsetting. It affect your career.? The sisters, both with experience in the engineering field, wanted their first business together to […]
The Clarkston Area Farmers Market opens for a new season on Saturday, June 21, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., outside the Community Education Building, 6558 Waldon Road. The market features locally grown produce and products, including onion, garlic, heirloom tomatoes, potatoes, maple syrup, honey, soaps, bath oils and other bath products, sodas, Llama yarn, eggs, free range […]
Earning Clarkston Optimist Club’s final Student Citizen Awards of the 2014 school year are Garrett Dellinger of Bailey Lake Elementary, North Sashabaw Elementary student Kaden Lockwood, and Eliza Mansour of Springfield Plains Elementary. “This is my eighth year taking part in this award ? this year was different,” said Principal BLE Glenn Gualtieri. “I knew […]
A week after receiving the school attorney’s legal opinion recommending Board of Education members not post to social media about board business, board Trustee Steve Hyer did just that. Hyer posted about 15 tweets during the May 19 school board meeting ? headline-type updates as the board worked its way through the agenda. According to […]
William Gunther is this year’s Clarkston Teacher of the Year. The Clarkston Junior High School health teacher was selected from 15 nominees. “I’m a little bit awed to be among such an awesome group,” said Gunther at the awards reception, May 8. “I hope to live up to all of your expectations.” This year’s award […]
Math is the name of the game during the month of May at Clarkston Elementary School. “It’s been quite a tournament,” said parent volunteer Sherry Snudden, helping with the Math Pentathlon tournament, part of May Math Madness at the school. Their game of choice, Queens & Guards, teaches logic and strategy, said student Hayden Payne. […]
With hashtags like “outofcontrol,” “ridiculousness,” and “budgetdiscussion gonewrong,” school board trustees’ Twitter feed at last week’s school board meeting were blunt and disrespectful. They may have also been a violation of the state Open Meetings Act. “Board members cannot communicate behind other board members’ backs during meetings,” said Mike Powell of Independence Township, who called […]
Years of work by students and staff at Renaissance High School to incorporate an environmental focus into everything they do received national notice ? a Green Ribbon School certification from the U.S. Department of Education. “I think it’s really cool ? I’m proud of the work we’ve done because I really think this is something […]
For graphic novelist Shaun Manning, growing up in Clarkston built a foundation for a career in comics.“My teachers included David Bihl – he was an unconventional teacher at Clarkston High School,” said Manning, who graduated from Clarkston High School in 1998. “Linda Denstadt was one of my English teachers. I didn’t appreciate it at the […]
Communications was a focus of Monday’s school board meeting. Board Secretary Craig Hamilton introduced a motion near the end of an almost five-hour-long meeting, April 28, for the board president to direct Superintendent Dr. Rod Rock to provide information to board members as requested. “I don’t think I get information in a timely manner,” said […]