Dressed in shades of periwinkle and white with deep, soft furniture, and a hint of cinnamon lingering in the air, the waiting area in Dr. Shaman’s office says spa, or cottage, perhaps. On the walls are large professional portraits featuring children that would make any mother proud, and over in one corner sits a glass […]
Residents around the Clarkston area expressed varying opinions when Michigan’s first minimum wage increase since 1997 went into effect Oct. 1. Legislation signed in March by Gov. Jennifer Granholm bumped the minimum earnings of some 90,000 workers across the state from $5.15 to $6.95 per hour, nearly a thirty-five percent increase. Most businesses around Clarkston, […]
Patty Peterson was downstairs putting her kids to bed, so she didn’t see the two Marines come rolling up the driveway of her parent’s Clarkston home just after dark. But she did hear the dog bark, and when her younger sister appeared in the doorway just moments later, she knew that what she’d been feeling […]
Parents and school officials around Clarkston got some good news’and some not-so-good’when Michigan Merit Exam results were released last month. The good news: Clarkston High School juniors placed above state average on the Spring 2008 MME. In some cases, scores were significantly higher; 18 percent of Clarkston High School juniors, for example, achieved ‘advanced? level […]
Question: What’s cool and fast, blue and silver, and up for grabs? Answer: a custom built motorcycle to be raffled off Sept. 21. Chuck Fortinberry, president of Clarkston Chrysler Jeep, is gearing up for the annual David and Wanda Harrison Memorial Charity Ride to raise money for Children’s Leukemia. Foundation of Michigan. He’s hoping about […]
Even with a backward slide of $10 million in taxable property values, Springfield Township millage rates won’t increase’at least not proportionally. At last week’s regular meeting, the township board OK’d the general operating millage at the same rate as last year, while the fire and police millages were only nudged slightly higher. The bond millage, […]
Interested in taking a scenic 50-mile motorcycle ride across northern Oakland County and capping it off with a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert at DTE and the chance to win a cool-looking custom-built motorcycle? There’s still time. The annual David and Wanda Harrison Memorial Charity Ride to raise money for Children’s Leukemia Foundation of Michigan takes place […]
I’m not here. As of Wednesday I am O-fficially on vacation, and by Friday I’ll be communing with nature on the wild, rocky and unpredictable shores of Lake Superior. I’m giddy with excitement; we’re renting a house with a fireplace, hot tub and a fire pit on the beach. I’m bringing marshmallows. And a winter […]
It was bad enough when someone rifled through Melissa Smith’s mailbox, stole outgoing checks and’simply by applying correction fluid and fresh ink’turned the checks into cash at the bank. Cash, as it turns out, used to support a drug habit; a heroin addiction. It got worse. Smith, who lives in the Lake Waldon Village II […]
Be the change you want to see in the world. It was a message first imparted by Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi; today, founders of a new yoga studio in Davisburg are taking the idea to heart. The Yoga Oasis, grown from cooperative efforts between seven yoga instructors who wanted to bring their […]