Are you like me? Did your fantasy football team just lose for the second straight week? Or maybe you’re one of the tens of thousands of people that participated last year in a fantasy fishing league? Or perhaps you’ve come up with your own form of a fantasy league? I heard of one recently that’s […]
The old saying ‘when pigs fly? will come to fruition at this year’s Barn Daze event. After a one-year absence, the Pig Throwing Contest is back by popular demand. The fifth annual Barn Daze will take place at Friendship Park, located at Clarkston and Baldwin Roads, from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Oct. 14. The event […]
Losing a few players off of any team is tough, but losing 10 off a team that only plays 12 is about as difficult a task as any. But that’s the task facing coach Eric Bracciano and his girls tennis squad at Lake Orion High School. The Dragons will have to replace their first-ever state […]
Lake Orion Girls Varsity Basketball Coach Steve Roberts said even the referees are complaining about how much running they have to do during his team’s games. The refs certainly got their daily workouts in during two Dragon victories last week. First, LO routed Ferndale, 77-35, in their home opener, and then the team used a […]
Sixty-seven people turned out to give their thoughts on M-24 traffic flow, and hear from those in charge of an ongoing access management study, during a presentation by the Michigan Department of Transportation at Orion Township Hall last week. The public hearing took place on Sept. 21, and included MDOT officials, as well as project […]
A truck that was stolen from Orion Township was recovered on Sept. 19, a few hours after it had been taken from a home on Hopefield. Orion Township resident Ryan Payne, 30, was arraigned on Sept. 21 with unlawful driving away of an automobile late last week, a felony that carries a maximum of five […]
Though most history classes that address the Constitution of the United States don’t take place until the high school level, students at Carpenter Elementary School got a sneak peek on Sept. 15. Students in the older grades at the school participated in Constitution Day, prior to holding their own school elections. Ken Mogill, a Lake […]
Participants in this year’s Lake Orion High School Homecoming Parade are sure to get a ‘hero’s? welcome when they march through downtown Lake Orion on Oct. 6. That’s because this year’s ‘Superheroes? theme is sure to please parade goers of all ages. But the parade, scheduled for 4:30 p.m., or roughly two-and-a-half hours before the […]
After a handful of budgeting sessions, the Orion Township Board of Trustees still could not approve its 2007 budget at the Sept. 18 meeting. The board set 2006 millage rates, the subject of a brief public hearing that took place during the regularly scheduled meeting. However, they voted 4-3 against approving the proposed budget. ‘The […]
Two Orion Township fires caused different levels of damage last week, but fortunately no one was hurt in either fire, according to Orion Fire Department Marshal Bob Smith The first fire, which occurred after 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 21, on Waldon Road, was started by an exterior plug outlet. The fire resulted in minor damage […]