BY WENDI REARDON PRICE Clarkston News Staff Writer Everyone at Clarkston High School stadium honored Steve Himburg with a moment of silence before the Wolves’ football game on Friday night. Himburg passed away suddenly at home on Friday, Oct. 1 while he was watching the Clarkston Varsity Football team play West Bloomfield. He was 76. […]
On October 7, the state’s Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Bureau of Community and Health Systems, suspended and issued a notice of intent to revoke the adult foster care large group home license of Adultcare of Independence Twp Inc. (Heather Pines), located at 8541 Eston Road in Clarkston. The investigation that concluded on October 6, 2021, […]
The 2021 Clarkston High School Homecoming Court includes seniors Frida Balderas, Ryan Bovee, Meredith Brennan, and Trent Geiger, juniors Jacob Boisvert, Alayna Combs, Troy Mengesha, and Sammie Miller, and sophomores Colin Kortman, Lena Richardson, and Cierra Tisdale. Not pictured are seniors Abby Walker and Adam Walsh and sophomore Micah Brown. Photo submitted by Rachel Vickers
Senior quarterback Mike DePillo hands the ball off to junior running back Ethan Clark in the Wolves’ 50-22 win over Lake Orion last Friday, moving CHS to a 6-1 mark on the season. Homecoming is this Friday as Clarkston Varsity Football hosts Birmingham Groves. Photo by Larry Wright
As of October 13, here are the reported number of COVID-19 cases, deaths, and new cases in the past 30 days for the Clarkston ZIP codes: October 13: 48346: 2,731 cases (179 new), 47 deaths 48348: 2,916 cases (223 new), 24 deaths 48350: 839 cases (99 new), 10 deaths As compared to October 6: 48346: 2,685 […]
BY MATT MACKINDER Clarkston News Editor The October 5 Independence Township Board of Trustees regular meeting ended just like the last several – with no appointment of a new supervisor as the trustees could not come to a conclusive decision on who to replace now-retired Pat Kittle, who stepped down after the September 7 meeting. […]
BY MATT MACKINDER Clarkston News Editor In the final hours of her life, Andrea Schroeder said she wanted to be remembered as “an ordinary person who had an extraordinary life.” Andrea Kathleen Schroeder (née MacIntosh) passed away last Friday, October 1, at the age of 57. She had been serving as the Michigan state representative […]
BY MATT MACKINDER Clarkston News Editor This past summer, Pat Kittle made it public he was stepping down as Independence Township supervisor, effective with the conclusion of the regular meeting of the Township Board of Trustees on September 7. After almost nine years, Kittle said “it was time.” He even proclaimed that longtime township resident, […]
A routine stop September 21 in Washtenaw County to assist a driver who had gone off the roadway turned up more than expected for Michigan Department of Natural Resources Conservation Officer Brandon Hartleben, and for the motorist, 63-year-old Clarkston resident George Michael Galbraith, who since has been arraigned on charges including false representation as a […]
Principal Glenn Gualtieri gets slime poured on him last Friday after Bailey Lake Elementary students hit their fundraising goal of $26,000 for their annual Running of the Bulldogs Fun Run. The grand total at slime time was $32,034. Gualtieri shared the students were excited, saying it had been the talk all morning during the fun […]