Springfield Township is putting it in park. Rotary Park. A collaborative effort to improve the park, located across from the Hart Center near downtown Davisburg, got started when Springfield Township Clerk Laura Moreau was working on plans to improve the township’s historic cemetery. Just down the road, she noticed Rotary Park could use some attention, […]
Organizers hope the community goes on a roll this weekend when the Clarkston Farmers? Market kicks off a campaign to collect more than 400 bicycles. Beginning this week, the market’located across from Depot Park and open Saturday mornings 8-12’will serve as the drop off site for bicycles ultimately headed to the Republic of Ghana in […]
Cooking demonstrations, children’s art activities, henna tattoos and face painting: the Clarkston Farmers? Market will offer a number of special activities and products when it kicks off the Bicycles for Humanity collection Saturday, July 25. From 9:30 a.m-11: 30 a.m., renowned musician Mark Stone’along with a Ghanaian friend’will entertain market-goers with African themed music. Hungry? […]
It was a strange thing for the superintendent to say. As graduating senior Maddy Dunn finished her commencement speech June 9, the CHS class of 2009 erupted in cheers. Superintendent Al Roberts rose to begin his own address. ‘It’s always tough to follow the senior speaker,? he told the crowd. ‘They say what they mean […]
A resolution to remove DPW logs from packets distributed to city council members before each meeting wasn’t meant to keep the information from anyone. That’s the word from Clarkston Mayor Steve Arkwright, who wrote the resolution and argued for its passing at a July 13 meeting of the city council. ‘The current method of disseminating […]
The father and son duo arrested in Springfield Township last month for a string of larcenies both pled guilty July 8 in Circuit Court. Gregory Michael Baker, 52, was charged with three felony counts of breaking and entering’each carrying a maximum 10-year sentence’and one felony count of larceny ‘carrying a maximum 4-year sentence. He was […]
A 63-year-old Davisburg man is facing charges of first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a 6-year-old girl. Craig Steven Aleo, 63, was arrested July 7 and arraigned July 8 in 52/2 District Court after police in Springfield Township were advised of a federal investigation in which Aleo is charged with transporting, possessing, manufacturing, and receipt/distribution of […]
One in every 69 homes fell into foreclosure in Independence Township last year’a total of 195 homes lost in 2008 alone. Proportionately, the number was slightly higher in Clarkston, with one in 71 families caving to foreclosure under the pressure of a sinking economy. The numbers, provided by the Oakland County Management and Budget Equalization […]
Local governments should move forward to establish a solid waste authority. That’s the word from Resource Recycling Systems (RRS), an Ann Arbor-based firm retained earlier this year to evaluate and report on alternatives for current residential garbage hauling and recycling practices in seven North Oakland communities. Advocates of establishing such an authority have repeatedly touted […]
Six Clarkston candidates declared intent to run for city council in the November election, turning in required paperwork by the Aug. 4 deadline. Four seats are up for grabs; Voters will elect three city council members for two-year terms, and one member for a one-year term, at the Tuesday, Nov. 3 election. Incumbent Jim Brueck […]