BY WENDI REARDON PRICE Clarkston News Sports Writer The Mountaineers have been successful in sports while building their programs, and behind the scenes is Everest Collegiate High School and Academy Athletic Director Ann Lowney. The hard work has paid off as Lowney was recently inducted into the Catholic High School League Hall of Fame at […]
BY WENDI REARDON PRICE Clarkston News Staff Writer Eight teams set sail on Deer Lake this Saturday when they compete for the RUSH Cup during the annual RUSH Regatta. Students from Clarkston High School Team RUSH Robotics encourage the community to come out and watch them race cardboard and duct tape boats. “It’s very entertaining,” […]
BY WENDI REARDON PRICE Clarkston News Staff Writer Young minds were kept busy during RUSH Junior Robotics and RUSH Robotics camps in June. The junior camp was for students entering grades first through third and is based off the FIRST LEGO League Jr. program, offered in the fall. Participants learned about robots and how to […]
BY WENDI REARDON PRICE Clarkston News Staff Writer School may be out for the summer but students on the Team RUSH Robotics team are hard at work with their annual Rush Regatta quickly approaching on July 13. The students are divided into teams and as they build their duct tape and cardboard boats to sail […]
BY MATT MACKINDER Clarkston News Staff Writer Shawn Ryan will be back as Clarkston Community Schools superintendent for the 2019-20 school year, after his contract was approved at the June 10 Board of Education meeting. His annual salary will jump from $170,000 to $175,100. “To me, this has been ongoing for the last 20-plus years,” […]
BY MATT MACKINDER Clarkston News Staff Writer A slew of Clarkston High School musicians was selected from over 250,000 students across the state to perform at the 57th Annual Michigan Youth Arts Festival May 9-11 at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. The festival is a weekend event highlighting the best of the best from Michigan’s […]
Clarkston High School graduates partied the night away after their commencement safely at the Grad Night Party at the high school, June 3. The students were entertained with laser tag, inflatable twister, bull riding, chair massages, wax hands, airbrush tattoos, photo booth, DJ, casino, full menu of favorite foods from local restaurants, and many other […]
BY MATT MACKINDER Clarkston News Staff Writer The annual Clarkston High School commencement ceremony took place June 3 at DTE Energy Music Theatre as 646 students walked across the stage in front of a packed pavilion. Clarkston High School Principal Gary Kaul was his usual humorous self but did find a moment to be serious […]
BY MATT MACKINDER Clarkston News Staff Writer Michelle Simecek has been teaching in Clarkston for 20 years and has loved every minute of it. On May 30, the Bailey Lake Elementary third-grade teacher was honored by the Clarkston Foundation as its Teacher of the Year, something she said was very humbling. “I was completely shocked, […]
Twelve “mathletes” from Springfield Plains Elementary won national awards of excellence at the Math Olympiad program. Thirty-eight SPE students were among the nearly 160,000 students worldwide to participate this year in a series of five monthly contests of five problems each, from November to March, and weekly practice sessions under the supervision and coaching of […]