Memo to Oakland Activities Association Division III girls basketball teams: Bring your running shoes. Sincerely, the 2006 Lake Orion Varsity team. Expect nothing less than 32 minutes of up tempo action from Coach Steve Roberts? squad this year. Roberts said his rotation could go at least nine deep regularly and will be all over the […]
David Wurst and the Dragons made quick work of the Troy Colts last Friday, scoring repeatedly on quick drives en route to an easy 35-0 win. Though he didn’t score a touchdown on the first drive of the game, Wurst’s 66 all-purpose yards were just the beginning of a huge night for the senior wideout. […]
Golf coach Monty Gallaher said taking masters courses in sports administration over the summer has changed his approach to coaching. ‘The final score determines a league champion and things like that, but what I’m stressing this year is to just improve,? Gallaher said. The squad will undoubtedly miss the steady play of all-state performer David […]
A solid defense with a more than capable goalkeeper behind it and a young goal scoring forward make this year’s version of Dragon soccer look kind of like a few others in recent years. But coach Erick Pfeiffer said his young squad is rebuilding this season. The coach quickly added that expectations for the players […]
It’s already been a busy year for Clint Verran, but that didn’t stop the physical therapist, who finished 10th at the Boston Marathon this past spring, from opening a new office in Lake Orion. Verran, who currently lives in Rochester Hills, graduated from Lake Orion High School in 1993, and sees his return as a […]
Offensive football has been the way of the Dragon in recent memory, with Lake Orion squads routinely putting up 30, 40, or sometimes even 50 points, in a given night. Coach Chris Bell expects his offense to be solid this year, but for once, his ‘O? might be getting overshadowed by an even more powerful […]
Amanda Quan has been on a dozen mission trips, including four to Guatemala. But her latest Guatemala mission trip, through Oxford-based Hope for Tomorrow, was a first in its own right. It was the first trip to Guatemala for Quan since 2003, and the first with her husband Alex. The couple met while Amanda was […]
Perhaps you’ve noticed the increase in web-like ‘tents? at the end of tree branches throughout the area in the past few weeks. Though the ‘tents? do not look too appealing, they are not as bad for the trees as tents created by other seasonal insects. ‘When people see something as obvious as these webs growing […]
The Village of Lake Orion will have a few more ducks than usual traveling on the Paint Creek on Sept. 9. Yellow, blue and pink plastic toy ducks will race from Children’s Park to Meek’s Park, with proceeds from the event benefiting the Orion Area Youth Assistance and the Oxford-Addison Youth Assistance. Control of the […]
To say it’s been a busy summer for Orion Township Trustee Mike Gingell would be an understatement. Gingell spent most of his free time campaigning for the Republican nomination for Oakland County Commissioner for District 3, defeating incumbent Republican Eric Wilson on Aug. 8. But winning the primary, and perhaps eventually the Nov. general election, […]