Every parent wants to see their son or daughter enjoying themselves on the athletic field, but it’s hard watching your child get defeated game after game. That’s the message some parents have been sending to the Lake Orion Youth Baseball League (LOYBL), causing the board of directors to reevaluate how it run its blind draft. […]
A Lake Orion 17-year-old has been charged with criminal sexual conduct (CSC) after Oakland County Sheriff’s Department investigators said he sexually assaulted a co-worker. The incident occurred on Oct. 15 at Alexander’s Car Wash on Lapeer Road. According to the OCSD, the boy assaulted a 17-year-old female co-worker, who reported the assault to deputies the […]
Watching on her TV the devastation left along the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Betty McDowell began to wonder what would happen if Orion Township were hit with such a disaster. It won’t be a hurricane, but it could be a tornado, terrorist attack or even another wide-scale blackout like the one […]
Until she was nearly two years old, Marissa Maver was developing like any normal baby would. But after a series of vaccines between the ages of 18-20 months, her parents said she began to show signs that something was not right. ‘At three and a half months she was sitting up, and she walked at […]
In keeping up with increased strain on parking at Civic Center Park that a new skate park and future amphitheater could bring, the township plans to construct a 100-space parking lot. The Orion Township Board approved $266,000 for the project that will take place in 2006. Funds originally budgeted for ballfield lighting will be used […]
The area of Grafton and Peters is going to be kept in the dark for now, after residents? request to have a street light installed was denied. Ten residents from Grafton submitted a petition to the Orion Township Board asking that a street light be installed at the intersection. No one from Peters signed the […]
Hot Dog might sound like a strange name for a turtle, but it makes perfect sense to Waldon Middle School teacher Nick Shaksos and his sixth-grade students. That’s because Hot Dog, Shaksos? 14-pound North American snapping turtle, had his first bite of food 17 years ago, when he was just the size of a quarter, […]
Ada Stone said she is just trying to operate her own business, providing quality child care for her clients as the State of Michigan has licensed her to do. However, some of Stone’s neighbors in the Long Lake Woods Subdivision off Indian Lake Road say her home-based day care is causing traffic problems for the […]
It appears a serial flasher who has been favoring businesses on Rochester Road has moved north. The man exposed himself to a girl in Orion Township on Oct. 13. The Oakland County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a report the man exposed himself to a four-year-old girl in the Kmart at Lapeer and Clarkston. He’s described […]
It isn’t often kids get the opportunity to get up close and personal with a bat, much less watch it get its tummy kissed. But that’s exactly what the preschoolers at Kids Corner in Lake Orion got to do, when Dale Smart of the Organization for Bat Conservation (OBC) at the Cranbrook Institute of Science […]