Help for the river

Students from Waldon Middle School participated for the first time in the Stream Leaders program through the Clinton River Watershed Council. About 100 eighth-grade students visited Yates Park in Rochester on May 4 with Waldon science teacher Jon Gray, four students from Lake Orion High School, volunteers and representatives of the Vanguard Chapter of Trout […]

Man dies after 6-car collision

A Clarkston man died during surgery on May 7, after he was the passenger in a vehicle that was involved in a six-car pile-up at Lapeer and Clarkston Roads on Saturday afternoon. According to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department, Donald Allen Moore, 77, of Clarkston, died at Royal Oak Beaumont Hospital, where he was taken […]

Township spending $140,000 to get rolling on utility pathway

In a bid to possibly add another 4.6 miles of gravel trail to Orion Township, trustees OK’d a budget adjustment of $140,000 to get work started on a utility corridor pathway. The pathway will be gravel six inches in depth, and 10-feet wide, provided by Consumers Energy who is putting in a 36-inch gas pipeline […]

They shut off the TV…and survived

With four children under the age of 10, turning off the television for a week might sound like a feat as insurmountable as scaling Mount Everest. The Brennecke Family of Lake Orion recently completed the challenge, turning off the four television sets in their home for the week of April 25-May 1, National TV-Turnoff Week. […]

Softball team loses Pieper final

The Lake Orion varsity softball team started out the week on May 2 with a 6-0 victory over Waterford Kettering, before ending the week on May 8 with a loss to Harper Woods Regina in the finals of the Fred Pieper Tournament. Against Kettering, Nichole Woityra went 2-for-3 for the Dragons with two doubles, while […]

LO baseball team has a 15-5 record

The Lake Orion varsity baseball team defeated West Bloomfield, Clarkston, Royal Oak Kimball and Port Huron Northern, in a doubleheader, last week. Against the Lakers on May 2, the Dragons won, 7-1, with Steve Garver going 2-for-4 with a homerun and three RBI. Kip Drewry was 2-for-4 with one run and one RBI. Lee Dickinson […]

Talented LOHS musicians to perform

The Lake Orion High School bands? percussion ensemble, brass quintet and chamber percussion ensemble are three of seven ensembles chosen in the state to perform at the Michigan Youth Arts Festival. The festival takes place May 12-14 at Western Michigan University. LOHS band director Michael Steele said having two ensembles chosen was unusual, and an […]

Clarkston man dies after six-car collision at Lapeer/Clarkston

A Clarkston man died during surgery on May 7, after he was the passenger in a vehicle that was involved in a six-car pile-up at Lapeer and Clarkston Roads on Saturday afternoon. According to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department, Donald Allen Moore, 77, of Clarkston, died at Royal Oak Beaumont Hospital, where he was taken […]

Gas explosion shakes up neighborhood

Residents living in the Squirrel, Silverbell and Dutton Road area might have thought a jet plane was attempting to land in their back yard, after a Consumers Energy gas main exploded Sunday night. The Oakland County Sheriff’s Department was inundated with 911 calls from residents in the area of the explosion at about 10:15 p.m. […]

Not just an average mom

Sometimes things get a ‘little hairy? around the Bryan/Witherspoon household, according to mom Lauri Bryan. That’s because Lauri and her husband Howard Bryan, an electrician, have four children: Ian Witherspoon, age 17 and a student at Lake Orion High School; Kara Witherspoon, age 12 and a student at Oakview Middle School; Erin Witherspoon, age 10 […]

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