Everest Academy presents The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Everest Academy presents The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Edmund (Demaro Valentino), Susan (Erin Carr), Peter (Jacob Sasak), and Lucy (Caroline Beggs) discover the notice posted by the White Witch about Tumnus’s disappearance. Photo provided by Mary Rosseli. INDEPENDENCE TWP. — Everest Collegiate High School and Academy performed a stage production of C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe earlier last month.This […]

View Newspaper Group wins 124 awards in annual MPA contest

View Newspaper Group wins 124 awards in annual MPA contest

View Newspaper Group Publisher Wes Smith and Greenville Daily News General Manager Amber Rood display Newspaper of The Year plaques awarded to Huron County View and Greenville Daily News at the Michigan Press Association Salute to Journalism ceremony held March 14 at St. John’s Resort in Plymouth. Photo by Jim Tarrant, MPA PLYMOUTH — During […]

View Newspaper Groupsales professionals honored

Each achieved more than 100% of their individual sales goals for 2023  Lapeer — Leadership at View Newspaper Group is proud to announce the company’s 100+ Club Class of 2023. Each sales professional honored achieved more than 100% of their individual sales goals for the entire year of 2023. A dinner and celebration attended by View […]

Area land conservancy seeks new leader, current executive director to retire in spring

By Larry KodoskySpecial to the Clarkston NewsBlue Heron Headwaters Conservancy (BHHC) seeks a new Executive Director. The BHHC originated in 1972 as the nonprofit Independence Township Land Trust, one of the first land conservancies in Michigan. As the organization’s scope and service area expanded, it changed names to the North Oakland Headwaters Land Conservancy in […]

Sashabaw Plains DAR honors two high school seniors with Good Citizen Awards

Sashabaw Plains DAR honors two high school seniors with Good Citizen Awards

The Sashabaw Plains Chapter of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizens 2024 Madison Schmidt and Jack Romkema. Photo by Joette Kunse By Joette KunseSpecial to the Clarkston NewsThe Sashabaw Plains Chapter of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) honored two Independence Township students as Good Citizens […]

Clarkston Area Optimist Club announces essay contest winners

Clarkston Area Optimist Club announces essay contest winners

Optimist Club essay contest winners (left to right) Elly Ryan, 2nd place winner, Freshman at Clarkston Junior High School; Lia Fabrizio, 1st place winner, Freshman at Clarkston Junior High School; and Adah Chwasz, 3rd place winner, 7th grade student at Sashabaw Middle School.Photo provided by Linda Danek, Clarkston Area Optimist Club Member and Essay Contest […]

What ‘Matt’ers: Goodnight, sweetheart, well, it’s time to go

‘The date was Feb. 13, 2019, and our former editor Phil Custodio called to offer me a job as a reporter with the Clarkston News.I happily accepted.Five years later to the day, Feb. 13, 2024, I was offered another job and after accepting, let my bosses know that I had accepted a new position.Yes, it’s […]

Saturday author event at Clarkston library

INDEPENDENCE TWP. — A New York Times bestselling author is coming to the Clarkston Independence District Library, 6495 Clarkston Road, this Saturday from 3:30-5:30 p.m., in partnership with Clarkston’s Inscribe Books.Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of the bestselling novel “The Waters.” A masterpiece of rural noir, the book is a fierce, mesmerizing novel about […]

Locals revving up for Detroit Autorama

Locals revving up for Detroit Autorama

Boogeyman takes its place at Detroit Autorama 2023. Photo: Kim Haislip DETROIT – The 71st Annual Detroit Autorama coming up this weekend at Huntington Place (formerly Cobo Hall) will have a local flavor.Clarkston residents Mike and Kim Haislip will be showing their 2012 Ford Mustang at the event, which runs March 1-3, and fellow Clarkston […]