Peter Cottontail was seen hopping around Clarkston Specialty Healthcare Center last week. During the week prior to Easter, Home Instead Senior Care members and Peter Cottontail visited seven senior care facilities in Oakland County, spending time with and entertaining residents, stopping for pictures, and passing out plastic eggs filled with candy. ‘It’s a wonderful program […]
Navigating area roads twists and turns, drivers know Independence Township is filled with lakes and woods. With new Green Infrastructure maps, now they can see where, and how they’re connected. ‘It is so important for planning commissioners and elected officials to study ecology,” said Planning Commission Chairman Sam Moraco. As part of continuing education classes […]
Volunteers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Saints off Waterford Road are hosting their second ‘Neighbor to Neighbor? give-away on April 25. ‘We started it last year. It was just an idea that we came up with because a lot of us in doing our spring cleaning had a lot of things that […]
It was seven years ago when retired school teacher Betty Anderson was ‘blindsided? by cancer, turning her world upside down. ‘I went from being a teacher concerned with my kids, my students doing school activities, to a teacher who also had a whole regimen of tests and doctor appointments, treatment options, and decisions to make,? […]
Past and present Clarkston Village Players gathered at the CVP theater for a night of fun. The night included food, drinks, “Who am I” guessing game, improvisation acting games, and Karaoke.
After 30 years on the job, many people start thinking about settling down for retirement. But Bernie Eibergen, who just celebrated his 90 birthday and Leroy Barbee, turning 72 on June 6, are in no hurry. ‘Not as long as I feel good,? said Eibergen. ‘I didn’t know what I would do if I didn’t […]
After two years, the original Mel’s Grill at the corner of Sashabaw Road and Pelton Road is back and open for business. ‘We’re very excited to be here,? said Cindy O’Hearn. ‘We’ve been open for about two weeks now and it was almost like a no brainer for us to come in here, once this […]
When Hope Ponsart tells people the small white dog they’ve been playing with is deaf, they don’t believe her. It was five months ago when the Springfield Township resident met Lilly, a little white dog with bat ears and a little stump of a tail, at the Rock Financial Pet Expo Novi. ‘I saw her […]
What was once an empty field now has become a temporary construction zone and a trucker’s junk yard. It was February 23, when Carolyn Frericks saw the first mobile trailer office arrive on the property next door to her business at Cabinet One. ‘It sat there and it sat there, I called David Pool at […]
When Independence Township Trustee Neil Wallace took issue with how meeting minutes are written, his words were more than enough for Marguerite Anderson. In an e-mail, April 22, to Clerk Shelagh VanderVeen and Deputy Clerk Paula Heenan, Anderson, who has been the minute recorder for the township for the past eight months, resigned her post. […]