Track & Field teams second at regionals

The Lake Orion girls track team scored 85 points, and the boys team posted 62 points, as both took second place at the May 19 regional at Holly. Individual athletes and relay teams finishing in the top two automatically qualified for the state meet, June 3 at East Kentwood. Other finishers who reach a qualifying […]

Two golfers, but not team, going to states

The Lake Orion girls golf team narrowly missed out on a trip to the state finals, placing fourth at their regional at Riverwood Resort outside of Mt. Pleasant. Grand Blanc ran away with the title shooting a 343. The Dragons 388 total was 12 strokes behind third place Clarkston. Juniors Darby Peters and Britney Hamilton […]

Soccer gets win, loss & tie as playoffs near

The scoreboard wasn’t the only place where the Dragons were hurting after a 5-1 loss at Rochester on May 16. Things seemed to be in order when Lake Orion’s Jenna Hill scored to tie the game at one at the half. But the injury bug doomed the Dragons. Goalkeeper Ashley Shugar was injured in the […]

Fighting to save lives

Thirty-five teams from across the area gathered at Waldon Middle School for the American Cancer Society’s Annual 24-hour Relay for Life event, on May 20 and 21. This year’s relay honored nearly 100 cancer survivors in the touching Survivor’s Victory Lap, and included a speech by 11-year-old Alexa Adkins. Adkins, an Oakview sixth-grader, has undergone […]

Assessor to give GCC report

Members of the Gingellville Community Center will soon have some answers from Orion Township, although they probably won’t be the ones they wanted. Due to the confusion surrounding the tax-exempt status of the GCC, and to better understand the tax exempt process in general, the township board has assigned assessor John Attwell the task of […]

Visiting the past

Wet conditions might have scared off some, but those who attended the first-ever Wildwood Farm Day at Olde World Canterbury Village weren’t bothered a bit by the rain. The event was held at at the village on Joslyn Road in Orion Township on May 13. Proceeds benefited the Orion Historical Society. Activities for the day […]

Hazelton crowned bench press national champion

When Scott Hazelton began competitively lifting in 1998, it was to raise money for charity. ‘I kind of enjoyed it and it went from there,? he said. Now, some eight years later, Hazelton holds the title of USA Powerlifting bench press national champion. Hazelton accomplished the feat at the end of March in Denver, which […]

Track schedule heating up, regionals next

With the MHSAA regionals right around the corner for the boys and girls varsity track teams, the two squads headed a few miles north for the annual Oxford Invite over the weekend. That invite, coupled with two big league dual meets, made for the biggest track and field week to date. At Oxford, the girls […]

Mr. Soccer comes home

Billy Weaver called his return to Lake Orion ‘interesting.? Weaver, a 2004 Lake Orion High School grad who was voted as the state’s top soccer player his senior year, recently played his first game on the school’s new artificial field. Weaver was playing with the Premier Development League’s Kalamazoo Kingdom in an exhibition game against […]

Soccer team’s regular season title hopes end

After two games between Lake Orion and Bloomfield Hills Lahser, finding a difference between the two teams seems like a difficult task, at least on the scoreboard. The two teams tied for the second time in as many games, playing to a 2-2 draw at LOHS on May 9. Rachel Bemman and Kaitlin Denton both […]