Lakefront living has led to years of community service for Skip and Sheryl Wendt. The Springfield Township couple have lived on Big Lake since 1975. After a couple years, both found themselves with positions in the township government. Since 1987, however, their biggest contribution has been their work with the Spray Masters Water Ski Show […]
A couple years ago Greyson LaHousse was in the middle of an uphill battle to make the Clarkston High School diving team. Today he is a school record holder and looks to continue diving in college. ‘As a sophomore trying out for the team I was not good at all,? LaHousse frankly states. ‘The coach […]
The Clarkston volleyball team dropped a contest to Lahser 16-14, 5-15, 9-15. The two teams are now tied for first place with 8-2 records. Stephanie Parkin had 12 kills for the Wolves while Colby Gardner added 30 assists. Clarkston rallied from a 14-10 deficit to win the first game, but they could not sustain the […]
It was a fight to the finish, but the Clarkston hockey team hung on to beat Troy last Saturday night, 4-2. It was an entertaining one-goal game until Chris Degen sealed the victory with an empty netter with 16 seconds left. Troy scored first on a power play, as a shot from the point was […]
Large pieces of construction equipment and semi-trucks removing debris are not a common site for the close-knit neighborhoods of Oxford Village. However, this past Monday, Oxford Christian Academy became the scene for such a production. Pastor Jim Kester, of the First Baptist Church of Oxford, said that removal of the current Oxford Christian Academy building […]
Lake Orion doesn’t have any steep slopes to travel down so Chuck Sisunik (pictured) and Sven Gronemann did the next best thing. They attached a kite to a snowboard on Monday and attempted to skim across the frozen lake using wind power.
In an area typically dominated by Republican voters and candidates, Oxford and Addison Democrats took center stage for a change. Ninety-five local Democrats turned out at the Oxford Public Library Saturday, Feb. 7 to vote in Michigan’s Democratic Presidential Caucus. That number doesn’t include all the mail-in and on-line caucus votes, the exact number of […]
A head-on collision just south of M-24 and Teelin Road Wednesday night resulted in injuries to both drivers, one of which had to be airlifted to a hospital. An 18-year-old Wisconsin man driving a Geo Prizim was heading northbound in the southbound lanes of M-24 when he collided head-on with a southbound 1998 Honda Civic, […]
Tuesday, February 3 A resident on Hunter’s Rill reported minor property damage after she discovered that the windshield and antenna of her car had been broken. Suspicious person on Crawford St. turned out to be an unidentified man “at the home’s front door yelling shoot me, shoot me.” Wednesday, February 4 An Oxford Twp. man […]
Developer Mike Weger and Orion Township officials will have to wait a while longer to learn if a proposed land swap will affect part of Bald Mountain. A vote by the Michigan Natural Resources Commission on whether to allow a swap of 82.7 acres of land in Oakland and Addison Townships, owned by Weger, for […]