Ice hockey team forming for Lake Orion students

Anyone interested in playing ice hockey on a team composed exclusively of Lake Orion students this summer should attend a tryout on May 26. The tryout will be at 8:45 p.m. at the Troy Sports Center. The center is located at 1819 Big Beaver Road in Troy. A fee of $15 will be charged to […]

Golfers win

The Lake Orion High School girls varsity golf team defeated West Bloomfield on May 3, 174-209 at the Orchard Lake Country Club. Ashley Hamilton finished first for the Dragons with 41, while teammate Darby Peters finished second with 43. Britney Hamilton and Tricia Hewitt rounded out the top four for Lake Orion with 45 each. […]

Dragon Dash race winners

The 2004 annual Dragon Dash race was held May 2, sponsored by the Orion Township Parks and Recreation Department. Here are the winners: Overall female winners were Ashley Wharton of Lake Orion, 18, finishing eighth overall with a time of 31:50; and Maggy Zidor, 54, finishing 28th overall with a time of 36:33. For women […]

Downtown spring fair expands to 2 days

Lake Orion’s annual Home & Garden Market Place and Flower Fair is growing. It now takes place over two days, May 22-23 in the downtown area and offers a wide range of vendors representing home and garden products and services combined with plenty of fun and activities for the whole family, including an all media […]

Fire Call

Tuesday, May 4 10:51 a.m.-A person on Kay Industrial Drive had seizures. Station #2 responded. 11:03 a.m.-A person on Sparrow Hill fell. Station #2 responded. 8:49 p.m.-An accident took place at Hopefield/Joslyn. Station #3 responded. 8:49 p.m.-Station #2 checked out a heavy odor of gas at Powers Distributing on Giddings Road. Wednesday, May 5 2:09 […]

Looking Back

Ten Years Ago May 11, 1994 ~~~A developer will be seeking rezoning of nine acres on M-24, near Casemer, to build 112 condos. ~~~Meijer is again going to attempt to build a 230,000 square foot store at Silverbell/M-24. It last attempted rezoning of the property in 1989. ~~~School board members are expected to act this […]

LO Police Log

Monday, May 3, suspicious circumstances on North Slater. Suspicious circumstances on North Washington. *** Tuesday, May 4, a person at an Orion Road apartment reported two women with a mag light were looking into vehicles. A person at M-24/Atwater was arrested for diving with a suspended license. Larceny from a vehicle on Orion Road. Larceny […]

Deputy Reports

Monday, May 3, felony domestic assault and battery on Elmhurst Circle. Stereo equipment and a cell phone were stolen from a vehicle at the Orion Sports Bar on Lapeer Road. Resisting and obstructing police on Pontiac Drive. Check fraud at Kohl’s on Baldwin Road. *** Tuesday, May 4, domestic assault arrest on Queensbury Road. Two […]

Teacher receives honor, check from Sam’s Club

Webber Elementary fourth-grade teacher Pam Kyle had no idea that she was the reason for an afternoon assembly at the school on May 5. The secret assembly was called so Sam’s Club representatives Wendy Larkin and Renee Graybiel, of the Auburn Hills store, could present Kyle with a check for $1,000 to use for her […]

Young designers

Orion Oaks Elementary School presented its annual Upper El. Auto Show on April 29, as part of a social studies unit titled Michigan in the National and Global Economy. The project gets students thinking about the auto industry, and gives them the chance to design, manufacture and market their own cars. The project began with […]