BY MATT MACKINDER Clarkston News Editor The Rotary Club of Clarkston is back with its largest community service project and will be kicking off its busiest time of the year. First, the club will be selling a Rotary newspaper for donations this month at local intersections and at local businesses. This is followed up next […]
BY MATT MACKINDER Clarkston News Editor Two Clarkston residents recently achieved the rank of Eagle Scout by virtue of completing community service projects. Brooke Muzzy (pictured top), a scout with Troop 185G in Clarkston, cleared new paths and installed benches along the lakefront at Orion Township’s Camp Agawam, while Nathaniel Smith received his award for […]
BY MATT MACKINDER Clarkston News Editor Henry Woloson knows a thing or two about finances. As the head of Woloson Financial Management, located in town at 7608 Dixie Highway, Suite 100, for the past 28 years, Woloson found the pandemic the perfect time to pass on his knowledge of the industry in book form, recently […]
BY MATT MACKINDER Clarkston News Editor Dan White has been a firefighter for 24 years with 20 years of full-time service to the Independence Township Fire Department, choosing a career where he could serve the local community. White was promoted to lieutenant in 2013 and prior to coming to the township, worked for the Groveland […]
As Americans grapple with a sharp spike in murders over the last year, they may be wondering where they can go to feel safe. The safety and home security website SafeWise decided to look into it. The report “The 100 Safest Small Towns in America for 2021” from SafeWise that was released last month found […]
BY MATT MACKINDER Clarkston News Editor After presenting their first production in a year and a half this past September, Clarkston Village Players will now get set to preform the classic play “Bus Stop,” by William Inge. The show opens this Friday, November 5 and runs through Saturday, November 20. Emotions run high when a […]
There’s nothing like the motivation of food. Or in this case candy as I struggled to get an Ironman costume on a two-year-old who just was not having it. I simply told him in order to go trick-or-treating to get candy he would have to wear his costume. His eyes widened like he was remembering […]
From The Clarkston News archives 25 years ago – 1996 “Live from Clarkston, it’s the Monster Mash” Disc jockeys Karen Dalissandro and Steve Courtney from Detroit country station WWWW set up shop on the front lawn of Jack Raymond’s Independence Township home on Halloween for their live broadcast. “Band third in state” The Clarkston High […]
Boots and flannel were de rigueur at the ribbon cutting of the Michigan Humane Center for Farm Animal Care at the Abraham Ranch in Clarkston, located west of M-15 and south of Weidemann Drive, on October 25. This facility, soon to be serving hundreds of farm animals and livestock each year, is the next phase of Michigan […]
From The Clarkston News archives 25 years ago – 1996 “Mt. Zion expects youth club’s partial opening by end of year” The new youth center undergoing remodeling in a former grocery store by Mt. Zion Church was expected to be partially open by the end of the year. “Boo!” Seventy creepy characters assembled for the […]