North Oakland Headwaters Land Conservancy hosts a Wild Night Out, 6:30-9 p.m., Friday, Oct. 9, at White Lakes Oaks Country Club. The event will include dinner, barbershop chorus, vintage wine pull, and silent and live auctions. “We have some fantastic auction items with a professional caller,” said Executive Director Jan Kulodge. In addition to collecting […]
For Richard Stocker of Independence Township, his art is meant to be shared. There’s lots of sharing at Art Prize in Grand Rapids. “It’s the biggest art show on Earth,” said Stocker, whose acrylic painting “Map of the Dance” is on display in Humanity Boutique’s front window downtown. “It’s the main painting in their window […]
The city is cracking down on two downtown buildings, the 5 S. Main Street for structural problems to its exterior and Clarkston Mills at 20 W. Washington for remodeling work without permits. The city gave an October deadline for repair work to crumbling stucco on the Walters Building, 5 S. Main Street, home of The […]
With the start of October this week comes the beginning of the holiday season, for me at least. That means many opportunities for community service to help everyone enjoy Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc. Planning is well underway for Clarkston Rotary Club’s Shoes for Kids project. I volunteered for it last year at Oakland Woods Baptist Church […]
Marching band and drum majoring runs in the family for the Petersons of Clarkston. Mike Peterson was in Clarkston High School Marching Band from 1983-1985 and led it as one of three drum majors. Now, his daughter Madeline Peterson is on the marching band as drum major, too. ‘It’s very surreal,? said Mike, who played […]
What to do about downtown Clarkston was a major topic of discussion at the League of Women Voters Oakland Area’s Candidate Forum for City Council. “The community is going through serious changes right now,” said candidate Michael Cascone about whether he supports rezoning residential property zoning to commercial. “I would welcome rezoning if it fit […]
Before Clarkston City Council voted unanimously to go into closed session, Sept. 14, to discuss a lawsuit alleging an improper closed session, resident Steve Wylie had a question. “Is this eligible for a closed meeting,” asked Wylie, also a former city council member. “There needs to be a demonstration it would have a detrimental financial […]
Two Springfield Township residents were killed in a case of murder and suicide, authorities say. Mike Wyatt, 66, and Carolyn Wyatt, 64, were found dead in the 11000 block of Shaffer Road, 9:21 p.m., Sept. 13. Deputies were dispatched for a welfare check on Carolyn, who lived there with Mike, her husband. An anonymous caller […]
Intense winds during a storm passing through the Clarkston area, Sept. 3, knocked down a tree on Holcomb Road between Depot Road and Washington Street. The tree fell across the road, blocking traffic for a couple hours until Clarkston DPW and Road Commission for Oakland County workers could clear it. Aaron Doughty, in whose front […]
For more than a thousand families of servicemen still missing in action in Vietnam, the war never really ended. “It’s still hard on them. They think about them every day,” said Tom Romzek, American Legion Post 63 member who served in the U.S. Army in Southeast Asia from 1966-1968. “I wish they were all accounted […]