BY ELAINE STIEB Lake Orion Review Editor Voters going to the polls on March 8 will have a choice of eight candidates for four spots on the Lake Orion Village Council. Hoping to return to office are incumbents Tom Albert, Douglas Dendel, Bob Hollenbeck and Ken Van Portfliet. Others on the ballot are Patricia Kartje, […]
BY ELAINE STIEB Lake Orion Review Editor Six buildings destroyed in last week’s fire in downtown Lake Orion will be demolished. According to LO Village Manager JoAnn Van Tassel, village engineers Hubbell, Roth & Clark and the state’s building inspector Phil Dodd have concurred the structures are unsound. After the fire, Orion Township Fire Chief […]
I attended the story of the century in my pajamas. Thanks to a call by Mary Harkins, I saw every person on the day of the fire I’ve ever known in this town without wearing make up and combing my hair. Leaving a bowl of Grape Nuts on the table, I dashed to the car […]
BY ELAINE STIEB Lake Orion Review Editor More than $3.5 million in proposed reductions/eliminations could give a boost to an unsettled 2004-05 school district budget. According to Lake Orion School Superintendent Dr. Craig Younkman, Michigan school districts have lost $222 million in funding from the state over the last three years — and there’s no […]
Safety and liability issues could kill any chances of Green’s Park staying open year round. Members of the Village of Lake Orion’s Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee recommended to village council members on March 8 to increase the hours of the park, located on M-24. The recommendation asked that the park stay open from dawn […]
It’s sad that one of the village’s greatest assets is being under utilized. And unless residents bombard the village with phone calls, Green’s Park will probably stay empty for most of the year. The idea of keeping the park on M-24 open all year round has been talked about in a positive way for a […]
A ‘Gator? may not be welcome downtown. Lake Orion Council members on March 22 were leery about a possible purchase of a John Deere Gator (a small utility vehicle) by the Downtown Development Authority Board. Buying the vehicle came up when council members were discussing several requested budget adjustments from the DDA. ‘I have a […]
The second week of March I received a letter from some guy named Anton Anderssen. He wrote that he was a community education teacher who teaches ‘Martha Stewart? type classes in some 20 different school districts in the Metro Detroit/Ann Arbor area. I didn’t print his letter because of our policy of not printing letters […]
Insurance people are expected to make one more visit this week to the burned downtown area. If final OKs are given, demolition of the buildings could begin soon after. According to LO Village Manager JoAnn Van Tassel, architect Steve Auger is drawing up plans for the new Sagebrush Cantina. It sounds as if the plans […]
Additional high tech equipment continues to make a police officer’s life easier in the Village of Lake Orion. Back in November, cameras in police cars were upgraded to digital. They replaced VHS cameras that have been an industry standard since 1998. Lake Orion Police Chief Jerry Narsh said the VHS format has been a proven […]