Band marches through 30th annual event

A long series of semi trucks rumbled in and out of Clarkston High School’s parking lot last weekend, interspersed with trailer-toting parents and one busload of musically inclined young people after another. The high school students’several thousand’arrived ready to march, and took to the turf off Flemmings Lake Road dressed in garb ranging from formal […]

Police make arrest in robbery case

The man accused of breaking into a Clarkston home and stealing guns, jewelry and hundreds of dollars in loose change was arrested and jailed after police apprehended him in a nearby yard last week. Kurt Alan Thayer, 43, was charged in the 52-2 District Court and held on $500,000 bond, no 10 percent cash surety. […]

‘Voice of the Wolves?

Every once in a while, Dale Ryan connects with someone who finds him very familiar, yet can’t quite place the face. But it usually doesn’t take the person long to realize it’s not Ryan’s appearance they identify with. It’s his voice. Every Friday night each fall, Ryan and his crew climb into the press box […]

Return to sender

It’s back to the drawing board for rezoning plans in Springfield Township. Township trustees flatly refused a request by the planning commission Thursday to appoint a steering committee to study hotly contested rezonings. Property owners? concerns about the proposals need to be solved by the planning commission, officials said. ‘It is’my opinion that the township […]

Pineda to face trial for murder

The man accused of killing off-duty Flint police officer Vincent D’Anna was bound over Monday for Circuit Court trial after two days of testimony’including graphic and emotional eyewitness accounts of the accident scene. Ramon Felix Pineda, 25, an illegal Mexican immigrant, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of D’Anna, 26. Six witnesses took […]

Out loud A column by Laura Colvin

I’m thinking of calling my column The Ryan Report. That’d be cute. Then I can find all kinds of reasons to write about my Lil? Sweetie. Ryan recently developed an adorable little smile, for example. This is big news. Better yet, I know exactly how to make that lil? smile lift one corner of his […]

Pineda to face trial for murder

The Brandon Township man accused of killing off-duty Flint police officer Vincent D’Anna was bound over Monday for a circuit court trial after two days of testimony’including graphic and emotional eyewitness accounts of the accident scene. Ramon Felix Pineda, 25, an illegal Mexican immigrant, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of D’Anna, 26, […]

Council puts brakes on biking in downtown Clarkston

Anyone who rides a bicycle along the sidewalk in Clarkston’s downtown business area could be faced with a fine in the not too distant future. Clarkston officials recently rewrote and passed an ordinance requiring folks to walk bicycles in the city’s downtown area, but the issue was back on the agenda and tabled at Monday’s […]

Frights come out at night

A cloud of fog hangs thick in the air; dead branches dangle above. Suddenly, from out of nowhere, a shape appears in the mist’green, brown and stringy’somehow moving closer and closer, as if it’s alive. It seems hungry, thirsty, determined. The shape is Adam Denz, who put more than 30 hours of work into his […]

Familiar face joins council

Charles Inabnit said he never hesitated when Clarkston Mayor Sharron Catallo asked him to fill a city council seat vacated earlier this month. Bill Rausch, a retired GM employee, rendered his resignation Sept. 2, claiming a busy schedule did not allow him to adequately carry out his obligations to the city. ‘I was very disappointed […]

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