For the fifth time in the past six years, the Lake Orion boys and girls varsity ski teams have qualified for the Class A State Finals, being held at Boyne Mountain on Feb. 28. Both teams managed to take third place finishes in their regionals finals on Feb. 17 at Pine Knob to advance to […]
Gerry Webber won the 152-pound class for Lake Orion’s varsity wrestling team at the individual district on Feb. 19, after the team lost to Holly, 39-18, in the championship match of the Division I team district, held at Lake Orion High School on Feb. 16. At the team district competition, Lake Orion defeated Grand Blanc, […]
The Lake Orion varsity boys basketball team are hoping for a good start in district competition on Feb. 28, as they lost to Bloomfield Hills Lahser and Farmington Hills Harrison in regular season action last week. On Feb. 15, the Dragons were defeated, 61-52, after Lake Orion had won against Lahser in the previous game […]
Residents living near a home on Waldon Road, that they say has a motor cross course in the backyard, asked the Orion Township Board of Trustees for help on Feb. 7, but were told that the township has no ordinance governing that type of property use. Bill Hadden told the board that his Waldon Road […]
To witness Zachary Shaffer’s smiling face and positive outlook on life, you would never know the 21-year-old Lake Orion resident was battling glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most common and clinically aggressive brain cancer. Shaffer survived a bout with astrocytoma brain cancer when he was nine years old, and the doctors thought he was cured for […]
Students and staff at Waldon Middle School have known for the past nine years about the talents of principal Heidi Kast, and now so will the rest of the state as she was recently named Administrator of the Year by the Michigan Association of Middle School Educators (MAMSE). ‘I started out as a special education […]
The Lake Orion High School bowling teams are new to competition this season, but are holding their own, according to varsity coach Gary Skarritt. There are four new teams this year: boys varsity, girls varsity, boys junior varsity and girls junior varsity. The Dragons? home venue is Collier Lanes in Oxford. ‘This has been nine […]
Thanks to the efforts of the Orion Township Fire and Rescue Department, a family dog was able to be saved after a house fire on Aubrey in the Preserves Subdivision off Waldon Road on Feb. 5. According to an Oakland County Sheriff’s Department report, the dog, along with the family’s cat, were found in an […]
Oakland County CLEMIS (Court and Law Enforcement Management Information System) Administrator Pam Coates hopes that a tower to assist in emergency services communication has finally found a home in Orion Township. The tower, which will stand just under 200 feet tall, is one of three left to be installed in Oakland County as part of […]
Lake Orion resident Cheryl Zigler is hoping she will get the green light soon to go ahead with an operation to donate her kidney to her ailing sister, Gloria McKay of Arizona. McKay has been battling the end state of renal failure for seven years and is currently on dialysis three days a week, waiting […]