Andover and Lake Orion firmly established themselves as the top two volleyball teams in the OAA II on Saturday. Unfortunately for the Dragons, it was the former, not the latter, that went undefeated at the league tournament (hosted by Stoney Creek) to win the outright championship. Andover topped the Dragons twice on the day, to […]
The Dragons were missing center Cole Moore for their game against visiting Rochester last week, but that wasn’t the big story. That honor belonged to the two big men that filled in for the senior starter, Steve Jorgensen and Chad Nieswand. The pair combined for 21 points as Lake Orion broke the game open late […]
The Lake Orion wrestling squad used a second place finish at the OAA I meet Friday night to pass Rochester Adams for second place in the final league standings. Regular season champ Clarkston ran away with the tournament title, scoring 232 points, 98 better than the Dragons. The Wolves had seven individual champions out of […]
The subject of Carla Teare’s classes may not be part of a standard curriculum, but it is nevertheless an important part of student’s development: change. Changes come from influences both internal and external and people deal with change in different ways. Teare, the Safe and Drug Free Schools coordinator for Clarkston Schools, works with students […]
At just 23, Jordan Roth, a 2009 Clarkston High School graduate, has traveled the world. Next up is Poland-again. During his year and a half stay in the foreign land, Jordan will work for Delphi Automotive, an international supplier of automotive electronics and technology with locations in 32 counties around the world. A 2012 Michigan […]
Rather than have a party of their own, the students of the Clarkston Elementary Alpha Club decided to help students from another school. After school on Feb 1, during their regular meeting time, the students made and organized gift bags to give to students in the third grade at the Art and Technology Academy in […]
It might have taken winter a while to arrive, but the weather has certainly made up for the wait. Students in the Lake Orion Community Schools had an extended weekend because of what the district called ‘extreme cold.? Temperatures were below zero on both Monday and Tuesday mornings around the time when kids normally begin […]
It seems to be a split decision on the Addison Township Board of Trustees as to whether or not the elected officials and township employees should receive pay raises this year. At Feb.3 special meeting, officials discussed the matter, but did not reach a final decision as to whether or not they felt pay raises […]
Oakland County Sheriff’s Deputies in Addison Township want to get the word out about a possible senior citizen scam after an 82-year-old woman in Leonard was targeted last week. According to the sheriff’s report, the Leonard resident received a suspicious phone call Jan. 31 from a woman claiming to be a representative from a senior […]
Students in the Oxford school district had days off Monday and Tuesday, but not because of heavy snowfall or icy roads. The district’s website said that ‘extreme cold and wind chill? were the reasons for the two-day closure. According to NOAA’s National Weather Service in White Lake Township, the extremely low temperatures were a very […]