The Board of Trustees approved a pay hike for many of the Springfield Township’s key employees Thursday, while the supervisor, clerk and treasurer all voted down personal raises. None of the township’s employees received a raise last year. Fire Chief Charlie Oaks saw his annual salary rise from $49,000 to $53,500 for 2007, while full-time […]
A brand new sign arrived to replace the worn and rotting Clarkston City Offices marker on Depot Road last week, and three more ‘Welcome to Clarkston? signs are slated for instalation by the end of the year. One of the new signs will mark the north border of town on Main Street, another at the […]
A White Lake Township man in court on charges of domestic violence found himself with a tenfold increase in bond and five new charges after assaulting a judge in 52nd-2nd District Court on Wednesday. Judge Dana Fortinberry told police she felt something whiz by her ear, but had looked down to close a folder and […]
The message sent by Clarkston-area and other county residents on gravel roadways was loud and clear: leave our speed limits alone. The Michigan House of Representatives heard the message, and voted last week to amend the new law’Public Act 85’which mandated removal of speed limit signs and increased acceptable speeds to 55 mph along many […]
The ball is finally rolling. The new Citizens Police Study Committee assembled for the first time Tues., Nov. 28, to begin sorting fact from fiction in the debate over maintaining the status quo with the Clarkston Police, or reverting to fulltime protection from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department. Lopping off the police force would allow […]
BY LAURA COLVIN Clarkston News Staff Writer Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus, right down ? Main Street? Yes, it’s time again for the Holiday Lights Parade, the sixth annual procession of holiday floats, music, and twinkling lights set to wind through downtown Clarkston Sat., Dec. 9 at 6 p.m. This year’s theme, […]
A woman wandered hopefully through the front door of the Clarkston News? office a few weeks back, explaining that she was eager to find a picture of a mom and her little girl, a photo that had run in our paper back in the early ?90s. She was the mom, and the little girl was […]
Deciding what to do with leftover promotional merchandise was a snap for local businesswoman Cheryl Bean. She knew her surplus could bring peace of mind and possibly mean the difference between life and death for someone in her community. So on a recent sunny afternoon, Bean piled dozens of brand new, still-in-the-box fire extinguishers and […]
When 17-year-old Michael Zukoff stepped up and offered to plan and build an outdoor sanctuary at his family’s Clarkston church, he knew only one thing for sure ? if he was going to do the project, he was going to do it right. Then a junior at Brother Rice High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michael […]
The employees at Chase Plastics popped their umbrellas bravely up last Thursday and marched into the November wind and rain to celebrate groundbreaking of the company’s new building. Although the weather was nothing to cheer about, the company’s executives and employees all welcomed the project’s kick-off. ‘The start of this building is a testament of […]