OHS students are state champs in auto skills

Oxford High School teacher Dan Balsley has been taking teams to the Ford/AAA Auto Skills Competition for 15 years — and this is the first year the auto shop instructor can proudly say he has coached state champions. Oxford High School seniors Devon Hickmott and Nathaniel Lamothe took first place and the state title at […]

Fire Calls

Thursday, Oct. 25, 12:00 p.m.-down wires reported across road on Judah. Station #3 responded. *** Friday, Oct. 26, 2:22 p.m.-smoke reported coming from a vehicle on Silverbell, west of M-24. Station #2 responded. The Lake Orion Fire Department has responded to 1,515 fire and emergency calls thus far in 2007.

Happenings

St. Joe’s hosts winter festival gala St. Joseph School in Lake Orion is holding a Winter Festival Gala on Friday (Nov. 2) at the Cherry Creek Golf Club, in Shelby Township. The special evening is a fundraiser for school programs and for the families who need tuition assistance. The event will begin at 6 p.m. […]

Work in progress

Parents are being warned they’ll see more students at each bus stop and the stops will be farther apart when school starts this August Currently, Lake Orion School District buses stop 3,700 times a day. When a new transportation plan is finalized this summer, the number of stops will be around 1,200. According to school […]

Trustees seek input on park millage

Lake Orion Review Staff Writer Township residents made themselves heard loud and clear on the subject of building a community center in a recently held public hearing, but the Orion Township Board of Trustees is concerned opinions on levying a operating and capital improvements millage for the parks and recreation department might have been left […]

HAVEN calendar now available at local bank

The 2008 HAVEN Survivors calendar, ‘We Shall Be Heard,? is available for purchase at all seven Oxford Bank customer locations in Oakland County through January. The calendar costs $14.95, with 100-percent of the money going to HAVEN. The calendars, underwritten by OnStar by GM and the Metro Detroit Saturn Dealers, were created to raise funds […]

Dragons give Romeo the boot

The Lake Orion football program is not necessarily known for kicking field goals. That changed on Friday night, as Jeff Heath’s 23-yarder gave the Dragons a come-from-behind 24-21 victory over host Romeo and sent them to a rematch next week at Clarkston in a district final. ‘Jeff’s been kicking real well, we put him in […]

Guest House unit is complete loss in fire

The Orion Township Fire Department responded to a structure fire at Guest House on Joslyn Road on May 1. Units responded sometime after 10 p.m., as their was some initial confusion when the call first came in, according to assistant fire chief Bob Smith. ‘It first came in as an unknown fire in the woods,? […]

Goodbye, for now, to Waldon teacher

Students at Waldon Middle School recently bid a temporary farewell to sixth grade science teacher Dan Hunter, a Pontiac resident, as he prepared to join his unit in the Army Reserves for deployment to Georgia. Hunter, who has taught at Waldon for one year, has been in the military for 20 years and will be […]

Cross country teams qualify for states

The Lake Orion boys cross country team will make another trip to the state finals this weekend, but this time they’ll be joined by the girls? team, which qualified for their first ever finals by taking second at the regional event held at Springfield Oaks in Davisburg last Saturday. ‘I had a feeling, even from […]