The roar of the crowd overwhelms me as I grind my teeth anxiously waiting for the referee’s signal. The screech of the whistle shrieks through my ears as one step leads to two, and two to three. The puck connects with my blade and I cradle it down the ice. First left picking up speed. […]
Sandy Smalley grew up in Clarkston, graduating from Clarkston High School in 1965. She married Mario Di Ponio in 1971 and they recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on February 20. Currently living in Highland, the couple is the proud parents of adult children, David, and wife Annette, and Gina, with husband Dale. “To our […]
From The Clarkston News archives 25 years ago – 1996 “Just one of the guys” Nicole Nicholas, a Clarkston High School graduate and Eastern Michigan University student, shared life as a competitive snowmobile racer. It began when she was five-years-old when she and her older sister received a Kitty Cat snowmobile for Christmas. “DPW worker […]
It’s amazing the older one gets, the faster time seems to fly by. For example, this past Sunday was the one-year anniversary since our beloved pooch Eddie had his pain and suffering ended. He would have been 17 on July 1. He was our firstborn, the one that made Stephanie and I “parents.” He was […]
From The Clarkston News archives 25 years ago – 1996 “City approves Depot Street cost study” Clarkston’s City Council passed a resolution, 6-0, to authorize spending up to $2,000 for a cost study to examine a proposed sidewalk project for both sides of Depot Street. “Loony for Legos at Clarkston El.” Clarkston Elementary students had […]
BY JACK MUELLER Clarkston News Intern Kids speeding through the monkey bars and dipping under the slides, their screams and giggles collide with the sound of bikes ripping through the trails and the loud pop of potato chip bags opening at picnic tables. It is a beautiful, sunny and 85-degree day at Depot Park, smiles […]
Clarkston resident Greg Petrosky, a regular volunteer for the North Oakland Headwaters Land Conservancy, measures water quality recently at Kimball Preserve. Photo provided
BY MATT MACKINDER Clarkston News Editor Katie French certainly keeps herself busy. A teacher in the English Language Arts department at Clarkston High School, French is also an author of some 35 books as an Amazon best-selling author in Young Adult Sci-Fi and Fantasy whose book, The Breeders, was a semifinalist in the 2014 Kindle […]
Here we are, a week into February and all winter sports will be back to running this week. Any other year, some sports would be starting the post-season about now or getting into those last final weeks of games. Not this year. All winter sports went on a pause mid-November. Slowly sports have come back […]
From The Clarkston News archives 25 years ago – 1996 “Entering a new ecosystem” Third graders at Clarkston Elementary learned about the rainforest under Sharon Wenger. Parents put up a display in the hallway for the students. They also saw a slide show by Springfield Plains teachers Eva Newman, who had traveled to the Amazon […]