Although the snow isn’t flying just yet, the 2004 high school ski season is just around the corner and Lake Orion’s boys and girls varsity teams are ready to go. The boys team, coached by seventh year head coach Norm McKee, will enter its first season this year without a four-year, or even three-year, starter […]
Billy Weaver knew he would be getting a phone call from his varsity soccer coach Erick Pfeifer when he took his girlfriend to see the movie “Elf,” but he had no idea what the call would be about. “I was at the movies, and I had my phone on vibrate because I knew my coach […]
An Alan Drive family returned from a meal out on Nov. 22 to find their home in flames. The Orion Township Fire Department and Oakland County Sheriff’s Department both responded to the scene after a neighbor called 911. According to an OCSD report, when the deputy arrived the front of the house was fully involved […]
To say Margaret Cobane lives for Christmas might be an understatement. The Clarkston artist is a self-proclaimed “Christmas nut” who celebrates a bit of the season year-round by using her talents to create unique Christmas tree ornaments. This Christmas she is the artist behind the official Downtown Lake Orion santacicle ornament. “This is my eighth […]
Orion Township resident Todd McCoy said he often fears for his life when entering and exiting his vehicle at his home along Heights Road. “To get my kids out of the car and grab a bag of groceries, I have maybe three feet and I’m standing in the street,” he told the board of trustees […]
Residents in the area of Indianwood and Fernhurst Roads were at the Orion Township Board of Trustees meeting on Nov. 17, pleading with the board to work with developer James Faycurry and avoid a possible annexation of Dutton Road property to Auburn Hills. Faycurry has been working for the past four years to develop condos […]
“Diamond Dave” Schurman has been in the jewelry business since he was 12 years old, and his Lake Orion store of the same name will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year. Schurman opened the first Diamond Dave’s location in the former Keatington Village, now Canterbury Village, on Joslyn Road in 1978 when he was just […]
Union Church Governing Board President Burke Cueny hopes with volunteer help that the first phase of the restoration of Union Church will be complete in a few months time. “We’re trying to get things done in the shell (phase I), so we can get a certificate of occupancy,” he explained to the Orion Township Board […]
For the staff of Waldon Family Medicine on Baldwin Road, the brightest part of the holidays isn’t the gifts they received, it’s the ones they give away to some of their patients. Dr. Cynthia Glasson came up with the idea to hold a Christmas party for some of their patients in need three years ago, […]
There are a lot of new faces on the roster of this year’s Lake Orion High School Boys Varsity Basketball Team, and head coach Jim Manzo hopes inexperience won’t hold his team back this season. The Dragons graduated seven seniors from last year’s squad, which went 4-16 in OAA II before losing their first district […]