Hello everyone out in quarantine land! How is the stay-home order treating you? Me? Just getting back into the groove as much as I can with a lot of events being cancelled or postponed on our return to The Clarkston News. What isn’t cancelled? Continuing to write out to-do lists. It helps focus and I […]
BY WENDI REARDON PRICE Clarkston News Sports Writer Clarkstonites laughed and smiled as they met for lunch in early March and shared stories from Detroit Tigers Fantasy Baseball Camp from this year and previous years. Danny Beer, Sam Hoff, Kevin Pesta, Gus Ploss and Kirk Stegmeyer were just a few of 150 campers during this […]
BY MATT MACKINDER Clarkston News Editor Even during this COVID-19 pandemic, two Clarkston women were able to celebrate their 100th birthdays recently, albeit in a modified setting. Esther Armstrong and Madelyn Stobbe hit the century mark over the past month, and each were honored with drive-by parties. What is the secret to living 100 years […]
BY PHIL CUSTODIO Special to the Clarkston News Local rocker Ron Tippin spent a year creating his band Widetrack’s newest album, The Unwakening. For the first time, he had a collaborator – his son, Zach Tippin. “It’s just been a really nice symbiotic kind of thing where we’re checking each other’s stuff out,” said Ron, […]
I write this in hopes everyone is well, the lockdown is at least starting to wind down, and Clarkston-area businesses are or will soon be reopening. The Clarkston News and the other Sherman Publications are printing again, which is good. Unfortunately, I’m not actually here with them – I’m moving to Alabama, where I have […]
BY PHIL CUSTODIO Special to the Clarkston News A two-year, 20,000-mile bike ride from Alaska to Argentina has come to a close for Chris Haag of Clarkston and his wife, Sophie George “I’m looking forward to seeing my dog, and there is something appealing about not having to find a place to dig a hole […]
Clarkston Family Farm continues to keep their Sunflower Market open on Wednesdays with a few changes. It’s open from 12-4 p.m. for pre-order curbside pick-up with Executive Director Chelsea O’Brien with her daughter, Delaney, and son, Aiden, putting orders together and delivering to vehicles. “It’s wonderful,” Chelsea said. “It’s just four hours and we will […]
BY WENDI REARDON PRICE Clarkston News Staff Writer Clarkston Family Farm, the Flying Rhino Cycling Club and Kinetic Systems Bicycles invite the community to Make a Donation and Ride. Clarkston Family Farm and Flying Rhino Cycling Club planned to do a Mother’s Day event but when the event had to be cancelled a new idea […]
A column by Rep. Andrea Schroeder We are a month into Michigan’s ‘stay home’ orders to combat the spread of COVID-19. Reports on the declining number of daily positive cases are encouraging, but everyone recognizes we still have a long way to go until things return to “normal” — whatever that will look like. Our […]
Being a basic tightwad, leaving any amount of money on the table drives me nuts. Leaving $211,788,000 on the table falls into the “insane” category. The percentage of Independence Township folks who have been counted as of April 19, 2020 in the 2020 Census is 68.2 percent. Using 37,000 as a conservative township total, 68.2 […]