Celebrating the real meaning of Christmas

You’ve been invited to a party at Clarkston Community Church, and it takes place on stage this Sunday, Dec. 14 at 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship Pastor Michael Anderson, and his wife, Dawn, wrote the program, inspired by music and narration from “A Christmas Invitation: Come Just As You Are,” written by David T. […]

Veteran hoops squad prepares for new season

BY HARRY KNITTER Clarkston News Staff Writer With only two players gone from last year’s 17-9 team, Clarkston High School Athletic Director and Varsity Basketball Coach Dan Fife has an experienced squad of players who have been well-educated in the “Fife System.” Somewhat like West Coast offense in football, the Fife System is a pattern […]

Wolves put 2 more wins on ice

The Clarkston Wolves hockey team posted two wins last week as they defeated Waterford Mott, 8-1, on Thursday, Dec. 4 and Royal Oak, 9-4, on Saturday, Dec. 6. Going into this week’s action, the Wolves were 3-0 in the league (4-1-0) overall. Clarkston’s four-line depth was too much for Mott’s short bench, which skated only […]

Clarkston wrestlers drop debut match to rival Davison

BY HARRY KNITTER Clarkston News Staff Writer One of the area’s premier wrestling teams, Davison High School, swept through town last Thursday night, dominating the Wolves squad along the way as the Cardinals recorded a lopsided 40 to 20 victory over Clarkston High School in dual competition. But the competition was just what Coach Joe […]

Little reindeer

Kids were a big part of the Orion Area Lighted Holiday Parade on Saturday, both on the floats and on the sidelines. This year’s theme was “Hometown Heroes.” For more parade photos and winners of the best decorated floats, see this week’s Lake Orion Review.

Driver pleads guilty in Lake Orion boat crash

Joseph Lloyd LeMaster, 31 will be sentenced on Jan. 6 for crashing a boat and seriously injuring a passenger on Lake Orion. The Orion Township man pled guilty to three charges in the incident that happened last July. He made an appearance before Judge Steven Andrews in Oakland County Circuit Court on Dec. 4. After […]

Handicapped woman dies in mobile home fire

Fire investigators from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department are blaming careless smoking as the cause of a mobile home fire that took the life of an Orion Township woman on Dec. 5. The Orion Township Fire Department and OCSD responded to the fire at a mobile home on Mockingbird, located in the Orion Lakes Mobile […]

Lake Orion man loses control, hits tree on Scripps Road

A 35-year-old Lake Orion man remains in William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak after his 1998 Ford Ranger pick-up truck struck a tree on Scripps Road on Dec. 7. According to Oakland County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Thomas Poulin of the Crash Reconstruction Unit, the man, Sean Patrick Theunick was driving westbound on Scripps about 7:20 […]

Santa Live!

Visit the Orion Neighborhood Television studio anytime between noon and 2 p.m. on Dec. 13 for the 16th annual production of Santa Live! Enjoy some refreshments, sing some carols and visit with Santa. The free event will be cablecast live, so be sure to set your VCR for cable channel 10 before you leave home […]