To witness Zachary Shaffer’s smiling face and positive outlook on life, you would never know the 21-year-old Lake Orion resident was battling glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most common and clinically aggressive brain cancer. Shaffer survived a bout with astrocytoma brain cancer when he was nine years old, and the doctors thought he was cured for […]
Students and staff at Waldon Middle School have known for the past nine years about the talents of principal Heidi Kast, and now so will the rest of the state as she was recently named Administrator of the Year by the Michigan Association of Middle School Educators (MAMSE). ‘I started out as a special education […]
The Lake Orion High School bowling teams are new to competition this season, but are holding their own, according to varsity coach Gary Skarritt. There are four new teams this year: boys varsity, girls varsity, boys junior varsity and girls junior varsity. The Dragons? home venue is Collier Lanes in Oxford. ‘This has been nine […]
Thanks to the efforts of the Orion Township Fire and Rescue Department, a family dog was able to be saved after a house fire on Aubrey in the Preserves Subdivision off Waldon Road on Feb. 5. According to an Oakland County Sheriff’s Department report, the dog, along with the family’s cat, were found in an […]
Oakland County CLEMIS (Court and Law Enforcement Management Information System) Administrator Pam Coates hopes that a tower to assist in emergency services communication has finally found a home in Orion Township. The tower, which will stand just under 200 feet tall, is one of three left to be installed in Oakland County as part of […]
Lake Orion resident Cheryl Zigler is hoping she will get the green light soon to go ahead with an operation to donate her kidney to her ailing sister, Gloria McKay of Arizona. McKay has been battling the end state of renal failure for seven years and is currently on dialysis three days a week, waiting […]
Just because your child does well in school, plays sports and is an all-around ‘good kid,? doesn’t mean their lives can’t be touched by substance abuse. That was the message several experts tried to get across in a K-12 Parent Forum held Jan. 19 at Lake Orion High School, on the subject of substance abuse […]
Lake Orion varsity ice hockey coach Doug Herominski said his goal for the team this year was to finish the season above 500 by three or four games, and the Dragons are plowing towards that goal as they head into playoffs next month. The team’s record was 5-7-2 on Feb. 2, after a 3-2 victory […]
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Department responded to a call of suspected food tampering on Jan. 27, after a man reported that someone had been putting bleach in his beverages. The 20-year-old Pontiac man, who was listed as the victim in an OCSD report, is a deaf mute, and communicated with the deputy via sign language […]
The Orion Art Center’s artist of the year, Andrea Lozano of Clarkston, has had the unique experience of living two different cultures, spending part of her childhood in Mexico, and then living in Michigan. Patron of the year Sherry Curtis found her talent for jewelry making and painting later in life. The former owner of […]