This is a story about the saddest event that a parent can ever experience. It also is a story that will reinforce the fact that there are wonderful and compassionate people in our community. Paul and Angela (Bono) Halik are Oxford residents but Angela was raised in Lake Orion. On September 26, Angela gave birth […]
Lake Orion’s annual July 4 fireworks show was nearly a fizzle this year. That was until the Lake Orion Village Council voted last month to not require the all-volunteer Lake Orion Fireworks Association to pay for cleanup and police services during the event. Members of the Fireworks Association threatened to disband and not support the […]
It’s official. The Lake Orion boys basketball team is the team to beat in the OAA Blue Division. The Dragons have met and slain the teams considered to be among the Blue Division’s best and now sport a 5-0 record in division play and lead by two games over Farmington Harrison. Last week, the Dragons […]
Lake Orion High School students won several honors at the Regional Scholastic Art and Writing awards recently. They received four gold key portfolios, nine individual gold keys, 19 individual silver keys and 13 honorable mentions in the competition. The event is considered to be the Golden Globes equivalent for young school-age artists. LOHS students? work […]
Lake Orion firefighters Roger Lesniak, Mitch Terrance and Chris LaGerald were honored Monday night at Orion Township for their efforts to save a woman who suffered cardiac arrest in December at Kroger’s. The three, along with a bystander and two other firefighters, administered CPR and used a portable defibrillator to resuscitate the woman. She is […]
An effort to meet the nutritional needs of all children in the Lake Orion community is underway. A program called ‘Blessings in a Backpack? is a national organization working in 42 states, including Michigan, that provides free food to meet at-risk children’s nutritional needs on weekends. A new group called Blessings in a Backpack-Lake Orion […]
Russell C. Greenlees Jr., a man thought by many to be a legend in the Lake Orion law enforcement community, passed away recently. ‘There will always be only one Russ and there no one will ever be like him,? said Orion Police Chief Jerry Narsh. When Greenlees passed away he was still working at age […]
The Rev. Laurel Dahill was welcomed as the new Rector of St. Mary’s-in-the-Hills Episcopal Church with a special evening Service of Renewal of Ministry on Wednesday. The church is on Joslyn, next to Canterbury Village. The Rt. Rev. Wendell Gibbs, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, presided at the service which included a celebration […]
Cooperative police work led to the arrests of three family members believed responsible for thefts from the Church of Christ in January and other crimes in Oakland County. According to a report from Lt. Dan Toth of the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department Orion Substation, two females entered the Church of Christ located on Hemingway Road […]
The expected basketball showdown last week between OAA Blue Division pre-season favorite Lahser and Lake Orion was more of a dress-down by the Dragons as they crushed the Knights, 74-54. The win improved Lake Orion’s record in the OAA Blue to 3-0 and this week they meet Harrison, also 3-0, in what is looming as […]