While the Clarkston Everest Collegiate Cross Country program is only five years old, the tradition of the alumni returning to run with the team is an important part of the fall season. “Despite conflicts with returning to college and work, as many of the alumni as possible returned to run with the team,” said Mary […]
Janice E. Downs, age 73, of AuTrain, died unexpectedly and peacefully in her sleep at her home on Sunday morning, August 23, 2020. Jan was born on February 18, 1947 in Adrian, Michigan to Irvin and Wavel (Russell) Enders. She spent her first nine years in Adrian before her father’s employment took the family to Fairfield, Iowa. Jan and […]
BY WENDI REARDON PRICE Clarkston News Sports Writer The fall and spring athletic seasons will look a little different as football is postponed until spring. The Michigan High School Athletic Association Representative Council announced last Friday it will move the 2020 fall football season to spring 2021 due to the sport’s higher risk for spreading […]
From The Clarkston News archives 25 years ago – 1995 “Elementary redistricting complete – for now” The Clarkston Board of Education voted to send new students moving into the Bridgewater apartment complex to Andersonville Elementary to alleviate overcrowding at other buildings. “Protect those precious family photos” Clarkston resident Diane Manssur shared how to organize and […]
BY WENDI REARDON PRICE Clarkston News Staff Writer “Lighthearted” is the one word Kate MacInnis would describe her newest novel Distant Heart Sounds, which is available this month. Distant Heart Sounds follows Morgan Cutler, a Detroit emergency center nurse. She believes she has seen just about everything in her 20-plus years on the job Then, […]
BY WENDI REARDON PRICE Clarkston News Sports Writer When Rocco Spindler, a three-year starter for the Clarkston Varsity Football team, narrowed down his top five colleges choices to one, he picked the best fit for him and went on a promise he made a year ago. “I made you a promise and I am going […]
Sometimes I can’t believe we are already in August and school, in one form or another, will be starting soon. The summer that is…what it is. We have been doing what we can with the boys during a pandemic. They need sunshine and need to get out of the house. We need sunshine and to […]
From The Clarkston News archives 25 years ago – 1995 “Just hanging out” Clarkston High School juniors Cara Bogart and Katie Gleason were waiting patiently for school to start as they were hanging out on the CHS entrance sign. “Putting mileage on memories” Dick Morgan, owner of Morgan’s Marathon at the corner of Main and […]
BY WENDI REARDON PRICE Clarkston News Staff Writer Evelyn Passejna swooped her net through the meadow and caught a monarch butterfly. Passejna, one of the counselors for Camp Wild at Clarkston Family Farm, let each of the campers take a peek at it before releasing the butterfly back in to the wild. Camp Wild was […]
While a lot has changed completely for students and athletes over the past six months with COVID-19, the effort during the summer from the Clarkston Everest Collegiate Girls Cross Country team has not changed. Coach Mary Williams shared the team has grown and matured entering its fifth season and the summer mileage requirements to attend […]