Dutton PUD gets township’s go ahead

Two restaurants, a bank and a hotel are on course to become part of the new gateway into Orion Township, in the area of M-24, Dutton and Brown Roads. The proposed nine-acre development got the go ahead for conceptual site plan approval from the Orion Township Board at their June 5 meeting. The nine acres […]

Dragons capitalize on mistakes, roll on to regional title

Motown music legend Barrett Strong once sang that ‘the best things in life are free.? Perhaps that song, ‘Money,? was played on the Lake Orion High School varsity baseball team’s bus, on their way to winning a Regional Championship at Chippewa Valley High School on June10. The Dragons were issued a total of 20 free […]

Oakland FC Dragons Soccer program continues to grow

As the coach of the freshman boys soccer team at Lake Orion High School two years ago, Matt Paukovits saw a need for a better developmental system for young players in the community. So, with 23 years of coaching experience under his belt, Paukovits did something few others with his credentials would do: he started […]

Fire threatens power lines, shuts down road

Power lines above a garage kept firefighters at bay, and left a road blocked off deep into the night on June 15. According to Orion Fire Department Chief Jeff Key, firefighters first arrived at the scene of a garage fire at 539 Joslyn Road, just west of Heights Road, around 3:30 p.m. ‘It appears to […]

Putting a smile on her face

Every year, Scripps Middle School finds a family to ‘adopt? for the holidays. The requests of the students they seek to help typically involve some type of trendy technology. This year, however, they got a new one: Dental work. The school raised around $1,500 to help one of their own, a Scripps eighth- grader, who […]

Del Taco wants to open Baldwin restaurant

The Gonzales and Phillips? families on Georgia Drive are hoping that plans for a Del Taco drive-thru restaurant on Baldwin Road will be thwarted by the Orion Township Planning Commission. ‘The squawk box would literally be in my back yard,? said Judith Gonzales at the June 5 Orion Township Board meeting, when a rezoning request […]

Dragons? season ends on walk-off HR

The Lake Orion varsity baseball team bounced back from one three-run home run against University of Detroit Jesuit High School on June 13, in state quarterfinal action in Madison Heights. But they didn’t get a chance to bounce back from the second three-run shot— and won’t get that chance until next season. Cary Piligian’s homer […]

Survey results for combined senior center are positive

The survey says… ‘yes.? The Older Persons Task Force, consisting of representatives from Addison, Orion and Oxford townships, were charged with looking into the feasiblity of a combined senior center for the three communities, and it now appears they have an answer. Surveys were dropped off at random spots throughout the three townships, over the […]

Blanche Sims students see fundraising results, remember classmate

Blanche Sims hosted a visitor from Children’s Hospital, who brought with her the end result of the students? $1,800 fundraising efforts. Mary Kraft, a certified child life specialist who lives in Davisburg, talked about her duties at the hospital, in addition to showing the students the laptop computer their car wash fundraiser helped purchase. One […]

Soccer and softball teams take postseason honors

The Lake Orion girls soccer program raked in the honors at the annual state soccer awards conference. Rachel Bemman and Jenna Hill were placed on the second team All-State, while goalkeeper Ashley Shugar made the third team and senior defender Amelia Cortis received honorable mention. All four players made the regional team and joined Shannon […]

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