Hot Dog might sound like a strange name for a turtle, but it makes perfect sense to Waldon Middle School teacher Nick Shaksos and his sixth-grade students. That’s because Hot Dog, Shaksos? 14-pound North American snapping turtle, had his first bite of food 17 years ago, when he was just the size of a quarter, […]
Ada Stone said she is just trying to operate her own business, providing quality child care for her clients as the State of Michigan has licensed her to do. However, some of Stone’s neighbors in the Long Lake Woods Subdivision off Indian Lake Road say her home-based day care is causing traffic problems for the […]
It appears a serial flasher who has been favoring businesses on Rochester Road has moved north. The man exposed himself to a girl in Orion Township on Oct. 13. The Oakland County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a report the man exposed himself to a four-year-old girl in the Kmart at Lapeer and Clarkston. He’s described […]
It isn’t often kids get the opportunity to get up close and personal with a bat, much less watch it get its tummy kissed. But that’s exactly what the preschoolers at Kids Corner in Lake Orion got to do, when Dale Smart of the Organization for Bat Conservation (OBC) at the Cranbrook Institute of Science […]
She won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1998 for her portrayal of mentally-unstable nurse Annie Dutton, and now she’s the latest passenger of Oceanic Flight 815 to find herself ‘Lost.? Actress Cynthia Watros, who played Dutton on the daytime soap opera ‘The Guiding Light,? has come a long way from her days as a student […]
The Lake Orion girls varsity basketball team recovered from their first season loss to Stoney Creek the week prior by defeating Royal Oak Kimball on Oct. 11. The Dragons won, 69-37, with Trisha Dalrymple and Chelsea Richards leading the team with 11 points each. Brittany Daenzer and Cortney Kimmel each put in nine points for […]
The Lake Orion boys cross country team celebrated victories over Troy and Rochester in a tri-meet on Oct. 11. The Dragon boys defeated Troy, 17-44; and Rochester, 18-41. Rob Shinouskis finished first overall for Lake Orion with a time of 16:10, while Drew Collette was second (16:29). Max Hock of Lake Orion finished in third, […]
The Orion Township Board of Trustees has requested the sign ordinance committee bring a report back to the Nov. 7 meeting, for a possible first reading. The committee has been working for the past six months to modify the township’s current sign ordinance, which may local business owners have told the board is unfair. ‘Any […]
The Department of Homeland Security recently announced that the State of Michigan will receive $854,809 in grants to assist local fire departments and medical emergency organizations, including a $180,000 grant for the Orion Township Fire Department. Orion’s grant was the the highest amount received by any fire department in the state. The funds are part […]
Orion Township’s engineering firm, Orchard, Hiltz and McCliment, has agreed to contribute $3,000 to help offset $32,978 in costs to rehabilitate the Clarkston Road safety path. At their Oct. 3 meeting, the township board of trustees voted to proceed with work to modify the path and rehabilitate it, by adjusting a cross slope between Merritt […]