The expected basketball showdown last week between OAA Blue Division pre-season favorite Lahser and Lake Orion was more of a dress-down by the Dragons as they crushed the Knights, 74-54. The win improved Lake Orion’s record in the OAA Blue to 3-0 and this week they meet Harrison, also 3-0, in what is looming as […]
This is a story about the saddest event that a parent can ever experience. It also is a story that will reinforce the fact that there are wonderful and compassionate people in our community. Paul and Angela (Bono) Halik are Oxford residents but Angela was raised in Lake Orion. On September 26, Angela gave birth […]
Lake Orion’s annual July 4 fireworks show was nearly a fizzle this year. That was until the Lake Orion Village Council voted last month to not require the all-volunteer Lake Orion Fireworks Association to pay for cleanup and police services during the event. Members of the Fireworks Association threatened to disband and not support the […]
It’s official. The Lake Orion boys basketball team is the team to beat in the OAA Blue Division. The Dragons have met and slain the teams considered to be among the Blue Division’s best and now sport a 5-0 record in division play and lead by two games over Farmington Harrison. Last week, the Dragons […]
Lake Orion High School students won several honors at the Regional Scholastic Art and Writing awards recently. They received four gold key portfolios, nine individual gold keys, 19 individual silver keys and 13 honorable mentions in the competition. The event is considered to be the Golden Globes equivalent for young school-age artists. LOHS students? work […]
Lake Orion firefighters Roger Lesniak, Mitch Terrance and Chris LaGerald were honored Monday night at Orion Township for their efforts to save a woman who suffered cardiac arrest in December at Kroger’s. The three, along with a bystander and two other firefighters, administered CPR and used a portable defibrillator to resuscitate the woman. She is […]
Four leaders of the Oxford football program in 2012 are moving on to play college football. Zack Hadorn, Brennen Orr, Kyle Anderson and Marty Giannola all signed letters of intent last week and will bring their skills and character to college. Hadorn signed with Saginaw Valley State University. Orr, Anderson and Giannola, all signed with […]
The Lake Orion boys ski team is competing next week for a state championship. The boys qualified seven skiers for the event, which takes place at Boyne on February 25. The skiers compete in individual and team scoring and the fact that the Dragons have seven boys in the finals gives the team a good […]
What began as a discussion about the possibility of consolidating police dispatch services in the villages of Oxford and Lake Orion has developed into a larger look at potential collaboration projects between the municipalities. Village councils and managers from both communities met Monday night in Lake Orion to establish some areas where the villages could […]
By Dan Shriner Review Editor The love sent to soldiers in Afghanistan from an eight-year-old Lake Orion girl has come back to her in a very special way. Last week, Faith Aisthorpe received a package from soldiers at the U.S. Army Front Operating Base (FOB) Salerno in Afghanistan. Inside that package was an American flag […]