Without fail, Clarkston High School Principal Gary Kaul makes it a point every year to say the current senior class is the most amazing one to ever come through the high school doors. This year’s group of seniors may stick out over the rest, and for good reason, said Kaul. “They have carried themselves with […]
Clarkston High School seniors have taken their last exams and closed their lockers one last time. As the 2020-21 school year’s finish line is well within reach for the Class of 2021, the weeks and days leading up to Commencement at DTE Energy Music Theatre are filled with fun activities the students can enjoy as […]
On the final day of school for the Everest Collegiate Class of 2021 before exams began, the seniors walked the hallways, first of the high school, then of Everest Academy. At the academy, they stopped by the kindergarten class and together, the Class of 2021 and the Class of 2033 walk hand-in-hand through the academy […]
The 2020-21 school year is down to less than a month until summer vacation, but Clarkston Community Schools continues to monitor the pandemic as it relates to student and staff safety. “We have seen a dramatic reduction in positive cases and quarantined students in our district and our operations are strong,” said CCS Superintendent Dr. […]
Kristine Butcher’s Academic Seminar Class at Sashabaw Middle School recently made their own DIY stress balls. Photo provided
Evan Hall, of Clarkston, was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society, at the University of Michigan. Hall is among approximately 30,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year. Membership is by invitation only […]
Clarkston resident and Hamilton College junior Lucille Kline has been awarded a Critical Language Scholarship to study Russian through a virtual program hosted by Lobachevsky University in Nizhny Novgorod. The Critical Language Scholarship is a program run by the U.S. Department of State for intensive language study in 15 critical languages. Kline is a Russian […]
BY WENDI REARDON PRICE Clarkston News Staff Writer Music is going to the neighborhoods virtually as Clarkston School Instrumental Music Association holds its inaugural Band on the Run 5K, June 4-13. Participants who register by May 16 receive a T-shirt and a medal. “With COVID, programs everywhere, not just bands, have been struggling because a […]
Independence Elementary students kicked off the 19th year of SOCKS (Serving Our Community Kid Style), April 26. SOCKS is a Young Fives through fifth grade academic service-learning schoolwide project where the focus is on, “How can we as caring kids serve our community?” This year looked a little different, because instead of just one morning, […]