When Laura Moreau recently took a group of fourth graders across Dixie Highway at Davisburg Road, the experience was eye opening. ‘It was frightening ? no sidewalks and no crosswalks,? said Moreau, Springfield Township clerk, at the Oct. 1 Township Board meeting. ‘Traffic really flies coming from the north,? said Trustee Roger Lamont. A traffic […]
October is when otherwise respectable members of the community think up creative ways to scare their friends and neighbors, devising the creepiest costumes and innovatively sadistic sets they can possible come up with. In the Clarkston area, that includes Haunted Fountains at Fountains Golf and Banquet Center on Maybee Road, and Terror of Townsend Forest, […]
Visitors get a wild ride at Independence Township Halloween events Haunted Fountains and Terror of Townsend Forest. ‘He said we all had to get out, and we’re all sort of uh, no,? said Tracey Kudla of Clarkston, who toured Haunted Fountains in an extended golf cart, with Robyn Chopp of White Lake and Aimee Smith […]
After a summer lull, flu bugs, including H1N1, ‘swine flu,? are spreading through the Clarkston area. ‘We saw 10-15 cases a day in the spring but the number went down in the summer,” said Dr. Tim O’Neill, Clarkston Medical Group. “We’re starting to see it rise again ? we haven’t seen any serious cases so […]
After more than 24 years selling and servicing cars, Clarkston Motors is gone. “We gave it the old college try,” said owner Chuck Fortinberry, saying goodbye to the longtime dealership with friends and family, Oct. 16. “This is a heavy blow to the community, employees and myself ? it’s wrong.” Fortinberry said his Clarkston Chrysler […]
The mournful moan of the infected, stumbling toward the living en masse with no desire except to ease their pain and spread their infection. Zombies. Lots of them. They walk the earth at Haunted Fountains, Terror in Townsend Forest, and local haunted houses, and fill movie and television screens this Halloween season. I like the […]
Clarkston’s “Co-op Express” playground stagecoach and horse team will ride off into the sunset, unless someone rescues it. “I’d like to see it saved by someone,” said Holley Brose, president of Clarkston Co-op Preschool at Clarkston United Methodist Church. “We don’t want to see it scrapped.” The yellow coach-shaped jungle gym and its team of […]
When Anna Beer planned her ninth birthday, she had a special request. “She asked everyone to not bring gifts but instead to bring an item to donate to the North Oakland Animal Shelter,” said Chris Beer, her father. ‘I like animals more than presents,? Anna said. ‘I’m just naturally attracted to them. I like horses, […]
Shawn and Emily Delasko returned to Emily’s homeland of Samoa this past August, spending three weeks with family and friends. Just a few weeks after their visit, much of her homeland, including her village of Saleapaga, was destroyed in a Sept. 29 tsunami. “Villages were hit really hard ? it’s pretty horrific,” said Joyce Delasko […]
Arnold Lee Bracy, 24, of Flint and Terry Bernard Brown, 26, of Mt. Morris face charges in at least six cases of breaking and entering in the Clarkston area. They were arrested, Oct. 20, at Clarkston and Clintonville roads after a witness in the 4000 block of Indianwood Drive reported a break in. Their apparent […]