Donna Nowak of Clarkston’s ProAiir black light body art makeup is featured on national television. This season’s Ink Masters reality show on Spike TV features the Clarkston business’ body paint in a challenge. “The product is being fully displayed on TV ? it’s killer,” said Nowak, who has been in the body art business for […]
Plans for a new restaurant at 59 S. Main Street will move forward without the recommendation of the Clarkston Planning Commission. Planners voted 4-1 against the conditional rezoning request at its Aug. 3 meeting. Commission members said they want to preserve a “buffer” between downtown Main Street businesses and residences to the south. The 59 […]
Charles Louis James of Independence Township turned 92 this month, so his neighbors threw him a birthday party. “He is such a personable guy to everybody,” said neighbor Sheilah Denne. “He has been walking all over the neighborhood for years. Everyone knows him, so we decided to have a block party.” The local Kroger’s store […]
I was alive in the ?60s, having been born in June of 1969, but I was of course too young to appreciate the culture of the times. So I wasn’t expecting to spend more than 15-20 minutes at Magic Bus? Concert in the Park last Friday. That would have been enough time to get pictures […]
A bee sting brought Sophie Hubble of Clarkston to the brink, but she was lucky, said her mother, Mary Hubble. “She was surrounded by people able to help her,” Mary said. “Everything fell into place ? you couldn’t ask for better people. As scary as it was, it was very cool.” They were on a […]
School remains in session for several Clarkston Community Schools teachers, as they learn the new Leader in Me program. Part of the district’s Whole Child Initiative and the school board’s Strategic Plan, the program will be used in six of Clarkston’s seven elementary schools. The seventh, Bailey Lake Elementary, will use the Love and Logic […]
Dick Moscovic laid a solid foundation for thousands of high schoolers over the past 47 years. “I feel very blessed,” said Moscovic, building trades teacher at his retirement party, June 19, at Oakland Schools Technical Campus Northwest. “In the last 27 years being in this building, there wasn’t a day I got up when I […]
As kids read about hero animals last week during the Get to Know a Hero Summer Reading Program at Springfield Township Library, they were visited by a real-life hero. Ashley, the horse, stopped by with her owner Steve Shapira of Davisburg, who explained how she works with the Camp Casey horseback riding program for children […]
A proposed communications policy isn’t clear to some Clarkston School Board members. “This seems like it says we can’t speak to media at all,” said Vice President Susan Boatman about one provision in the Recommended Procedures for Board Communications, June 8. “Any individual board member speaking as an individual should be able to talk to […]
Independence Township’s Fourth of July Independence Fest in Clintonwood Park includes a Veterans Ceremony and Military Museum for the fifth year in a row. I’ve enjoyed taking part ? helping to organize and participating in this part of the festivities. Vets display their uniforms, photos, medals, and other memorabilia for people to check out. The […]