By Maddie Kwasnik When my three friends and I were assigned a new project in our 10th grade Honors History class, we weren’t very thrilled. Another huge project we would have to indulge the next three months of our lives on, or so we presumed. “An ASL project,” our teacher explained to us – Academic […]
Three Pine Knob Elementary students were awarded Superstar Writer awards in the third annual Clarkston Kids Writing contest. One of their prizes was submission for publication in the Clarkston News. Now Clarkston High students, Evelyn Dice and Brooke Larkin started the contest in 2017 as a project in their English Language Arts class at Clarkston […]
The extended family gathered this past April in Ann Arbor. Heather and Nano are next to each other on the right. Photo provided BY PHIL CUSTODIO Clarkston News Editor For the Coats family of Clarkston, a student exchange to Chile in 1976 sparked a friendship with the Sepulveda family spanning more than 40 years and […]
Mikayla Ferer’s legacy was on full display on June 2 when over 100 people gathered for the “Kicks for Mik” Kickball Tournament at Clarkston High School. Ferer was 23 years old when she passed away in a car accident on Feb. 13, 2017. “Her loss left a hole in the hearts of all those that […]
Last Monday, 646 Clarkston High School graduates crossed the stage at DTE Energy Theatre, stepping into the next chapter of their life story. I shook hands with each one, and in their eyes I saw the full range of emotion that comes with beginnings and endings: excitement, pride, anticipation, satisfaction, a little nervousness, and overwhelming […]
Women across the United States are being tortured mentally and physically, with no escape route. Why is this happening? Abusive relationships. All over the country, women are being targeted by the partners they believe they love and are being loved by, causing the problem of abusive relationships to become more and more common. In order […]
Clarkston’s Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin met with local veterans at a roundtable discussion, May 19, at the Holly Area Veterans’ Resource Center in the Karl Richter Community Center in Holly. The Eighth District representative discussed physical and mental health, Veterans Administration, job opportunities, possible defense contracts for Michigan, and other issues with the vets. The center […]
BY PHIL CUSTODIO Clarkston News Editor David L. Stone, Esq., of Independence Township is up for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award, after being named a finalist in the Michigan-Northwest Ohio region. “It’s an honor,” said Stone, president and co-founder of the HR-administration company Trion Solutions. “There are a lot of great entrepreneurs […]
Mary Marple of Lake Orion set up her easel in the alley behind The Clarkston News building, May 16, for some art work. “I just like the old buildings, the tile roof, the atmosphere, there’s a lot of figures going by,” said Marple, a member of the Thursday Brushes art group. The group from around […]
I recently joined a Facebook group, “Desert Storm photos,” where people post their old snapshots from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq during Desert Shield and Desert Storm back in the ’90s. I posted one of me as an E-4 Army soldier on latrine duty, which involved filling a half barrel we had been using as […]