I have lots to be thankful for this Thanksgiving 2013, the year I decided to get myself in decent shape for some reason. Folks here at the office say I should have made some sort of campaign out of my weight loss (85 pounds so far!), with before and after pictures, stories, and such. I […]
Sunroom Tanning on Dixie Highway, which has been tanning area residents for more than 18 years, has a new owner ? Scarlett Mosher. Before purchasing the tanning salon, Mosher worked with her husband, Greg Mosher, at Comunale Fire Protection Services. Scarlett, who grew up in the Clarkston area, also worked at Big Apple Bagel. ‘That […]
Clarkston High School Craft Show, Dec. 7-8, 6093 Flemings Lake Road, hosts Richard and Kathy Verlander, authors of their new book, Rocks Across the Pond. “It’s a lot of fun, meeting people,” Richard said. “We’re very blessed to be able to share our story.” The book shares their experiences and lessons learned raising two sons, […]
Four years of training pays off next weekend for Kaley Moyet, seventh grader at Sashabaw Middle School. She’s testing for her black belt in Ryu Kyu Kempo karate, Dec. 14, at Clarkston Self Defense. Her parents, Jesse and Sherri Moyet, will be there, along with her sister Samantha, fifth grader at Bailey Lake Elementary. ‘She’s […]
School semester/trimester survey results are in ? most respondents support switching back to semesters. Administration offered the survey online through November, and met with PTAs around the district, said Shawn Ryan, deputy superintendent. Of the 374 parents who responded to the survey, 227, 60.7 percent, agreed with the proposed switch; 60, 16 percent, were neutral, […]
The approaching Christmas season means another holiday missed by the men and women serving in Iraq. Many here are working to make that loss easier to take. Joyce Fulgenzi has made it her mission to support them. ‘I won’t let them be forgotten,? Fulgenzi said. She started sending packages overseas at the beginning of the […]
Phil Voorheis has always been around the swimming pool. So when Voorheis, Troop 189, Boy Scouts of America, was thinking of an idea for his Eagle project, he knew what to do. A swimmer with the Clarkston High School varsity swim team, he talked to his coach about what the swim program needed. As a […]
The chocolate business began as a hobby for Christie Kojima, owner of the Chocolate Moose in downtown Clarkston. Twelve years ago, she just had her twins, and she was not ready to go back to work as an office manager as quickly as she expected. She was looking for a Christmas gift idea that wouldn’t […]
Matthew Long’s spiritual journey has been long, with experiences with Eastern and Western religious movements including yoga, Taoism, Buddhism, mind dynamics, and metaphysics, as well as Christianity. His path has led him to Independence Township, where he founded a Peace Unity Church this past June. Long joined Peace Unity in the early 1980’s, while he […]
The comprehensive development plan written for the Sashabaw Road corridor has been shelved. The Independence Township Board voted unanimously Tuesday to table the first reading of the new Sashabaw development plan. The program, which calls for 11 infrastructure-improvement projects, was developed by the recently created Sashabaw Road Corridor Improvement Authority. It would be funded through […]