BY WENDI REARDON PRICE Clarkston News Staff Writer The Team RUSH 27 Robotics team cheered and hugged each other on the gymnasium floor at Troy High School on Saturday at the Troy District Tournament as it was announced they won the blue banner – the third for the team this season. “Winning the third tournament […]
Fresh off a strong first-place showing at the Greater Pittsburgh Regional two weekends ago, several members of the Clarkston High School Team RUSH27 robotics team spent last Friday night at Clarkston High School working on and preparing robots for this coming weekend’s competition at Troy Athens High School, which will be held March 31-April 2. […]
BY MATT MACKINDER Clarkston News Editor A new therapy dog is arriving at Clarkston Community Schools. Sponsored by the LaFontaine Automotive Group, CCS is in the process of implementing a therapy dog program that will place a trained, certified social-emotional support therapy dog in each of the school buildings across the district, assisting students in […]
Back on March 11, nine middle school students were inducted to Everest’s Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Chapter of the National Junior Honor Society in a ceremony at the school. The new inductees include Christian Abraham, Alexander Fox, Ava Grant, Nathan Iyer, Natasha Mendez, John Neme, Allison Schmitt, Adam Tibudan, and Anamaria Valentino, pictured with […]
Dear Editor, If I told you to pick up a ball in front of you and place it on a box 10 feet away, you wouldn’t think too much about it. What if you had to ask someone else to do the same thing? You would probably say something to the effect of, “Go put […]
Seven new members were inducted into Everest Collegiate High School’s Troup 8546 of the International Thespian Society back on March 10 at the school. The new inductees include Jack Villella, Lucille Thewes, Lily Taylor, Zoe Schlaud, Rosalia Pearson, Evelyn Kirby, and Alicia Emmert-Buck, pictured with Everest English and Drama teacher Lia DiFonzo. Photo provided
Over the weekend of March 18-20, hundreds of spectators came to the Everest campus in Clarkston to see the performance of “High School Musical” on stage. The Mountaineers became Wildcats, “brainiacs,” and “jocks” in one of the drama program’s largest productions yet. Wildcats in the performance, Everest dedicated this performance to the Oxford Wildcat community. […]
Clarkston Team RUSH Robotics team traveled six hours for the Greater Pittsburgh Tournament in California, Pennsylvania. The weekend was filled with excitement as Team RUSH, seeded second with a ranking record of 16-1-0, were regional winners and received the Autonomous award. For the Autonomous award, which is sponsored by Ford, the judges shared it celebrated […]
St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated annually on March 17, the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1,000 years. On St. Patrick’s Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate […]
Clarkston Community Schools and the Board of Education announced last week that the district has saved taxpayers $4,029,346. This savings results from the successful sale of approximately $54 million of refunding bonds to refinance outstanding bonds, originally issued in 2016 to finance school building and site improvements throughout the district. Seventeen different financial institutions purchased […]