Allie Hock made the All-State team for a third straight year and Ryan Ziolko did so for the second time, highlighting a state final where both the boys and girls cross country teams placed in the top-15. The boys? squad took eighth place and the girls? team finished 13th Saturday at Brooklyn’s Michigan International Speedway. […]
After a one-sided, three-game loss at Oxford in mid-October, the Lake Orion volleyball squad knew they would have to play better to give the Wildcats a game in last week’s district opener. Coach Bob Howey said they certainly played better, but not good enough, as Oxford took home a 25-21, 25-22, 25-11 victory. The Dragons […]
For the second time in three years, Lake Orion can celebrate a district championship in football ? and can do so at the expense of their rival. Lake Orion erased a halftime deficit for the second straight week and topped host Clarkston 30-27 on Friday night. Ryan Broth scored all four of Lake Orion’s touchdowns, […]
Think it’s merely a coincidence that the return of Lake Orion quarterback Chris Lum has resulted in three straight wins for the Dragons, all in elimination games? Probably not. But if you ask the man himself, you’ll get a different answer. ‘I had great protection all night,? Lum said after last Friday’s 30-27 win over […]
With the cost of college increasing at a rate of upwards of 10-percent a year, families are struggling to keep up financially. That’s where Rob Shampine, a Certified College Planning Specialist, can help out. Shampine is an investment advisor with Innovative Wealth Strategies, LLC, here in Orion, but offers a free service as Regional Director […]
The North Oakland Household Hazardous Waste (NO HAZ) Consortium finished up the 2007 program with a record-breaking 976 participants at the final collection event on October 20 at the Eagle Valley Recycle and Disposal Facility in Orion Township. The number of participants in the program for the year as a whole grew by 58-percent, while […]
The Lake Orion Sunrise Rotary Club has had several ‘big name? speakers in recent weeks and has more scheduled for the coming months. Last week, the club welcomed Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson to their weekly breakfast meeting at C.J.’s Sandbar in downtown. Patterson spoke on a number of topics, including the recent announcement […]
Dozens of comic book characters, hoards of witches and goblins and an occasional princess were among the several hundred youngsters to invade the streets of downtown Lake Orion last Tuesday night for the annual parade through the village. The Downtown Development Authority estimated the record crowd size to be around 1,200 people, based on candy […]
Macomb Dakota outlasted Lake Orion 26-14 last Friday in a regional final, marking the third time in the past four years that the host Cougars have ended the Dragons? season. Lake Orion hung tight with the defending Division 1 state champs until a costly turnover ended a potential lead-taking scoring drive midway through the fourth […]
Lake Orion police are searching for a bank robber that stole an undisclosed amount of cash from the TCF Bank (471 S. Broadway) shortly after 6 p.m. on Friday. Police described the man as six-feet tall and mid-20s to 30s in age, with straight brown hair pulled into a banded collar length pony tail along […]