Lake Orion sports are often a main topic in township and the boys and girls of the high school have once again begun their preparations for the season ahead. One of those sports left the 2011 season with a rocky end due to the last minute loss of a coaching staff member, but that doesn't mean the dance team is taking the 2012 season any less seriously....more >>
Kickers hit the grassy field behind Clarkston High School to warm up and get deep into practice on Monday afternoon. They have a big week ahead of them as they open the season on Saturday when they head to Traverse City to take on three teams, Traverse City West, Traverse City Central, and Petoskey "TC West has a pretty good program," said Clarkston Boys Varsity Soccer Coach Chuck Lawhorn....more >>
Adam Gohl was surprised when he received a phone call from Lawrence Technological University. They called in June and offered him a scholarship to be their goalie on the lacrosse team....more >>
Gridiron heroes began a new time-honored tradition four years ago when they turned their pre-season scrimmage into something bigger. They turned it into Football for a Cure. As money was being raised for McLaren Breast Center and McLaren Cancer Institute - Clarkston, the boys donned blue and pink jerseys with each play and score honoring loved ones....more >>
This fall you'll hear plenty of noise coming from the Oxford High School football stadium. You'll hear the crowd roar as the Coach Bud Rowley's Wildcats dominate on the infamous blue turf....more >>
Recent OHS graduate Dakota Westmoreland vaulted into the elite echelon of college athletics when he recently signed a letter of intent to attend Baldwin-Wallace University. Westmoreland, a former Clear Lake Elementary student and 2012 OHS graduate, said his immediate athletic goal is to be nationally-ranked in the decathlon....more >>
How does a Wildcat become a Warrior? By running the Warrior Dash, that's how! Several OHS Wildcats, past and present, took part on July 28-29 in a fiendish race unlike any they had ever run before....more >>
1891: Par Lagerkvist, Swedish writer (The Dwarf, Barabbas).
1908: John Bardeen, physicist, co-inventor of the transistor.
1910: Artie Shaw, bandleader and clarinetist.
1920: Helen O'Connell, big band vocalist.
1928: Rosemary Clooney, singer.
May 23rd in history
1864: Union General Ulysses Grant attempts to outflank Confederate Robert E. Lee in the Battle of North Anna, Virginia.
1900: Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney becomes the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, thirty-seven years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.
1901: American forces capture Filipino rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo.
1915: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1934: Gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are killed by Texas Rangers.
