The Lake Orion High School forensics team qualified nine team members for the regional competition, at the district tournament. The district tournament was held at Utica High School on April 6. The regional will be at Birmingham Groves on April 16. Qualifiing for Orion was Lindsay Slavick, first place, Oratory; Julie Sabo, first place, Prose; […]
The Orion Township Public Works Department will pass increases from the City of Detroit and Oakland County for water and sewer rates on to residents. The township board approved on April 4 increasing residents? water rates from the current $1.94 per 100 cubic feet to $2.09 per 100 cubic feet. Public works director Bill Ireland […]
The Orion Area Youth Assistance will receive $10,000 on or before Dec. 31 through a 2005 Community Service allocation from the township. The board voted April 4 to sign an agreement with Youth Assistance and authorize the distribution of funds budgeted for 2005.
Hurricane Ike may have soaked Texas, but won’t dampen the spirits of three local gymnasts as they prepare to visit. During the summer, Madelyn Bagley, Emma McLean, and Jacquelyn Yates qualified for the USA Gymnastics National TOP test set for October in Houston. The gymnasts from Stars & Stripes Gymnastics Academy in Clarkston participated in […]
Making our economy healthier won’t happen overnight, but we’ve made great progress towards that goal within the last two years. When I took office in January of 2011, I joined with my House Republican colleagues in laying out an ambitious foundation for our state’s revival. While we’ve come a long way since then, there is […]
A bid has been awarded to Pro-Line Asphalt Paving for repairs and resurfacing of the safety path on Clarkston Road. The path runs from Pine Tree to M-24. The cost of the project is $106,332. Funds will come from the 2005 Safety Path budget.
By Matt Mackinder Publicist, Oxford HS Hockey At the midpoint of the season, the’Oxford’varsity hockey team was having an up-and-down season in terms of wins and losses, but optimism, and better play, has been peaking in recent weeks as the Wildcats enter the OAA playoffs’tonight. With a mix of young players and veterans, OHS head […]
The Battle of the Books 2005 took place in March and was an enormous success. Twenty seven teams of fifth graders went above and beyond their regular homework to read 20 books over a four month period. Battlers fought hard the day of the event in the meeting room of Orion Township Library. The room […]
Clarkston area students Kari A. Brown, Ryan K. Clement, and Sjonne M. Mitchell were named to the Saginaw Valley State University Deans? List for the Winter 2008 semester. *** Clarkston-area students Robert Holt, mechanical engineering; Scott Lyons, electrical engineering; and Kari Swartzmiller, mechanical engineering, were named to the Dean’s List at Kettering University for the […]
Students at Stadium Drive Elementary School collected $1,578 in spare change to donate to the United Way to go for Tsunami Relief in Southeast Asia through the ‘Spare Change to Change Lives? event. Each class had a collection container, and students brought in spare change also did odd jobs and held bake sales to help […]