Jazz star’Alexander Zonjic’will host a’Jazzy Christmas Concert featuring special guest, Detroit’s?’Queen of the Blues?’Thornetta Davis. The musical celebration is 4 p.m., on Sunday, Dec. 14 at the Calvary Lutheran Church, 6805 Bluegrass Drive. The concert is free, with free-will contribution to Blessings in a Backpack of Clarkston, helping hungry kids in Clarkston Community Schools. Zonjic […]
Fathers, friends, and other family members filled Bailey Lake Elementary’s cafeteria for Donuts with Dad, Dec. 5. The annual PTA event takes two days to fit in everyone, and is scheduled with the school book fair every year, said Andrea Beauchamp, chair along with Christy Kreucher. “It’s a way for dads or someone special to […]
Clarkston artist Jan Mayer’s Christmas cards for 2015, featuring a snowy caroling scene, are available at Clarkston United Methodist Church office, 6600 Waldon Road. Packets of 10 cards are $15; signed and numbered, limited edition 11-by-14 prints are $35 each. All proceeds from the sale of the cards and prints will be used by the […]
Prudential Great Lakes Realty of Clarkston is collecting new boots and donations for Health Alliance Plan’s Boots for Kids Campaign. Boots and donations will be collected at Prudential Great Lakes Realty, 20 W. Washington, Suite 5C, Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., until March 1, 2015. ‘Last year alone, we collected more than […]
Brandon Twp.- Jacob Michael Young, 17, has been charged as the individual who threatened a shooting in the school district this week. Young, a Brandon High School senior, was arraigned Dec. 11 in front of 52-2 District Court Judge Kelley Kostin with one count of making terrorist threats, a 20-year felony and/or $20,000 government reimbursement, […]
Brandon Twp.-Alongside their lessons in math, science and social studies this month, some students in the district are learning a more basic concept, but perhaps even more essential to their education? how to be nice and show compassion. At Brandon Fletcher Intermediate School, December has been designated as Random Acts of Kindness Month. ‘They are […]
Let’s talk. About five months after Flint Attorney Dean T. Yeotis filed a class action in the Seventh Circuit Court for a group of Village of Goodrich residents, along with three Genesee County businesses, charging four counts surrounding the village sewage system, drains and mill pond? a county judge has ordered mediation for the case. […]
Brandon Twp.- Deputies were called to a Christmas tree farm in the township on Nov. 30 on a report of a man trying to coax a young girl into his van, however, while it initially appeared suspicious, further investigation has allayed concerns of police. ‘We’re not so sure someone was trying to lure a female […]
Ortonville-For the eighth year in a row, the village has received reaccreditation as a Main Street community. The designation allows the village to continue receiving benefits from Main Street Oakland County program, an economic development program which assists communities in preserving historic buildings and emphasizes ‘a sense of place.? Resources provided through the program, such […]
Ortonville-It’s only about a half-mile trail that meanders near the Duck Creek. However, if village officials get their way that short jaunt could be extended more than 500 miles. Last week Village Manager John Lyons announced plans to begin development and seek grants to build a pathway near Brandon Fletcher Intermediate School on the south […]