The Lake Orion High School Varsity Volleyball Team has a new coach this season, but his name is anything but new to the Lake Orion Volleyball Program. Mike Hatch served as the school’s varsity coach until 1991, coaching varsity and junior varsity volleyball for a combined 15 years at LOHS. He’s been an assistant coach […]
Fire investigators from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department are blaming careless smoking as the cause of a mobile home fire that took the life of an Orion Township woman on Dec. 5. The Orion Township Fire Department and OCSD responded to the fire at a mobile home on Mockingbird, located in the Orion Lakes Mobile […]
Two property owners in the Hi Hill Subdivision wanting an exception to a resolution passed by the Orion Township Board of Trustees requiring all residents there to hook up to the public water system or pay a $8,100 fee will have to wait a bit longer for a decision. The board voted to postpone a […]
A 35-year-old Lake Orion man remains in William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak after his 1998 Ford Ranger pick-up truck struck a tree on Scripps Road on Dec. 7. According to Oakland County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Thomas Poulin of the Crash Reconstruction Unit, the man, Sean Patrick Theunick was driving westbound on Scripps about 7:20 […]
Although they return only one state qualifier from last season, the 2003 Lake Orion High School Varsity Wrestling Team is ready to work for success this season, according to head coach Doug Kline. “We’re very excited. We came in with a whole new attitude this year,” he said. “We’re going more old school…harder, tougher. It’s […]
Loyal customers of Karl’s Place Cafe on Baldwin Road will have to suffer through the winter without their favorite dining spot, but the wait will have been worth it when the expanded restaurant reopens in the spring. Owners Karl and Joan Eberle, who have owned the restaurant for nearly 20 years, closed their doors in […]
Orion Township resident and former township trustee Burke Cueny said a recent meeting with township building official Tom Berger and township buildings and grounds director Reenae Tulip convinced him it was time to hand in his resignation as chairman of the Union Church Governing Board. “Tom Berger, in one hour, settled all the concerns we […]
The new Paint Creek Trailways Recreation Master Plan will bring improvements to every community along the trail, including Orion Township, through 2008. Paint Creek Trailways Coordinator Kristen Myers said the trailway has already been developed, so features in the new master plan will focus primarily on “cultural improvements” along the trail, such as art projects […]
Kim (Sebesta) McCool of Scripps Middle School was surprised to learn she had recently been named “Physical Education Teacher of the Year” by the Michigan Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (MAHPERD). “Because I’m so young,” she explained. “It was an honor.” McCool, 31, lives in Oxford with her husband Steve and has […]
Head coach Paul Fairman said this season’s boys swimming and diving team is the “best balanced” he’s ever had. “We’re pretty good across the board,” he said. The Dragons return several promising racers to the pool, including seniors Chris Conner, Stephen Maniace and Gabe Chevrier, Erik Wallace, Brian Desrochers, and Chris Rowe. “We also have […]