The warm weather is back and people everywhere seem to be celebrating their ability to leave without a jacket and drive without four-wheel-drive. Not that the winter was hard – by my count there was only one day where driving was dicey and it was never cold enough to even warrant a scarf. I’m not […]
Anyone that has seen a Lake Orion senior basketball player is now looking at an MHSAA divisional champion. Traveling to Rochester to do battle against the Falcons, a team which Orion has lost to twice in the regular season, the Dragons fought tooth, nail and wing to bring about the 48-44 win. The past two […]
The economy has claimed another service provided by Lake Orion’s downtown and this one may prevent fun times at the beach. For the first time in at least 30 years, the Lake Orion Village Council decided, at a March 8 budget meeting, to proceed with their budget without accounting for lifeguards at Green’s Park, located […]
Lake Orion residents may go far and wide when they graduate from high school, but not many come back as professional athletes. And not many come back after performances that put them in league with the likes of Tiger Woods. Tom Gillis, a mid-1980’s graduate of Lake Orion High School tied with Woods for second […]
I am of the opinion that we, as Americans, tend to be a bit ethnocentric. While I don’t believe we are any more or less than other countries on the planet, one is constantly bombarded about how ‘we live in the best country on the planet? despite many having never traveled further than Canada. This […]
Lake Orion’s ski teams may not have won states, but High School Senior Marie Dohm managed to create school history by herself as the first girl skier to win an individual state title. ‘She’s a hard working athlete and when she gets to that starting gate she gets really focused,? said Head Coach Derek Delzer. […]
If all goes according to plan, Orion sports teams won’t have to travel outside the township to play indoors anymore. Jim Murphy and Robb York, two Orion residents and parents of athletes, proposed building and operating an 90,000 square foot indoor sports arena in Orion Township at the March 5 township board meeting. They predict […]
Orion Township’s Operations Director Allan Feys left his position late last month to venture south to Pontiac where he hopes to sort out the ailing city’s finances. But he said in the two years he served in Orion, his career was punctuated with two supervisors, huge projects and real challenges. I started in November 2009 […]
The Dragons? season on the ice ended March 3 after a frustratingly close 1-0 loss to Eagles of Utica Eisenhower High School. Head Coach Nick Field called the match a ‘very good game? and said there was no one unifying reason Lake Orion couldn’t bring back a win. ‘Both teams played hard, both had a […]
While the cash is petty, the debate between Township Clerk Penny Shults and Township Treasurer Alice Young which sparked at the Feb. 21 Orion Township meeting was not. The brief altercation rose due to a proposed change in what the the treasurer’s office reimburses with their petty cash fund; a $100 balance that refills around […]