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, […]
It seems everywhere you turn and look these days, someone is mad or angry about something. I get it. This COVID-19 pandemic has turned all of our lives upside down. We have ALL had to adjust to a new way of life, new regulations, and new ways of protecting ourselves from this virus that is […]
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 […]
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 […]
BY WENDI REARDON PRICE Clarkston News Staff Writer From colorful paintings to black and white drawings to photography, the community was able to view what artists in grades 6-12 have been working on during the virtual edition of the 12th Annual Imagine That Teen Art Show. “I always love seeing the wide range of pieces […]
One of the many events cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic was the summer SCAMP program. The organization still wanted to do something special for their campers so they held a drive-through ice cream social for them at the Clarkston Community Schools Administration Building, July 28. A DJ played music as many came out to […]
BY WENDI REARDON PRICE Clarkston News Staff Writer Through the years, Clarkston resident Mary Lou Snyder has been inspired by her family and her faith and she put the inspiration into poetry. She wanted to compile the poems to give to her five children so they would have them, but her daughter, Carol, had another […]
BY MATT MACKINDER Clarkston News Editor It’s amazing what happens just by reading the paper. Jimi Turner did that and found himself a job as Clarkston’s new DPW supervisor earlier this summer. “It was rather typical, really,” Turner said. “I just happened to see the job posting in The Clarkston News one day, felt that […]
Admittedly, I knew very little about Clarkston when I came aboard with The Clarkston News in Feb. 2019. Now, almost 18 months later, I have learned several things about the area. I have learned most people actually live in Independence Township or Springfield Township or even Davisburg. Less than 1,000 people technically live in Clarkston […]
BY MATT MACKINDER Clarkston News Editor Over the past quarter-century, professor Maureen Tippen has taken more than 250 University of Michigan-Flint nursing students on service-learning journeys to Africa, Asia and Latin America. From providing clinical trainings in orphanages and educating nurses and lay people about CPR in Cambodia to developing a partnership with a safe […]