A 61-year-old Arbroak woman said she had an argument with her husband shortly before she woke up from a nap to find the room in flames. The Orion Township Fire Department and the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department responded to the fire at about 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 15. According to an OCSD report, the fire […]
A 21-month-old Orion Township girl who was scalded before being put to bed on Saturday evening later died at POH Medical Center, according to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department. The incident occurred on Dec. 18, when the girl was given a bath in her home at the Waldon Lakes Apartments complex on Joslyn Road, by […]
They’ll travel to Ireland, Wales and Scotland as student ambassadors for People to People, but in order to do it, three students from St. Joseph School will have to raise $4,000 each. To kick off their fundraising efforts, sixth-grader Alexandria LaBarge, fifth-grader Ashlee Krystek and fifth-grader Adam Cole will be wrapping gifts at the Office […]
Conditioning since September, the Lake Orion boys and girls varsity ski teams are ready to compete, starting their season on Jan. 7 at Mt. Holly. Head coach Norm McKee is in his eighth season at LOHS, and is assisted by coaches Tom Vurginac, in his fourth season, and Grant Fodor, in his second season. The […]
Now that money for preliminary engineering has been secured, the next hurdle will be actually coming up with money for construction costs for the $25 million widening of Baldwin Road. Orion Township Supervisor Jerry Dywasuk announced recently that $500,000 in federal funds had been secured by U.S. Representative Mike Rogers for preliminary engineering for the […]
The fifth-grade students in Paula Schubert’s class at Carpenter Elementary School in Lake Orion have been learning about the US Constitution and their constitutional rights, and they recently had a visitor who helped shed some light on how those things apply to real life situations. Oakland County prosecuting attorney Cindy Brown visited the class on […]
Coming off a championship year, the Lake Orion boys swimming and diving team will look to make a place for themselves in their new division, OAA I, this season. ‘We are returning five guys who went to the state meet, and they are probably our five best swimmers,? said coach Paul Fairman. Returning are senior […]
The Lake Orion varsity wrestling squad went to a 7-2 record on Dec. 8, defeating Orchard St. Mary’s, 62-18, and falling to the Oxford Wildcats, 37-33. Against St. Mary’s, Orion’s Brandon Tobin had a pin in the 103-pound match, in 2:39. In the 119-match, A.J. Pratt had a pin in 1:14. Jake Varilek had a […]
They don’t really turn into vampires, but a visiting bat from the Organization for Bat Conservation at Cranbrook did bring along a few of his fellow nocturnal friends for a trip to Carpenter Elementary School on Nov. 22. Dawn Vezina of Cranbrook travels to area schools with a program called Animal Adaptations, which teaches about […]
The fight to stop a land swap for Bald Mountain property on M-24 could soon be drawing to a close for the Orion Township Board of Trustees. Attorney John Staran of Beier Howlett, hired by the board to represent the township in the land swap issue, gave on Dec. 4 an update on where the […]