The Lake Orion School District has entered into a four-year partnership agreement with Dell Computers that will bring over $1 million in benefits and perks to the school system. On the school district’s end, it has to commit to buying Dell products and the company’s services. It already has been replacing old computers with Dell […]
The grand finale of fundraising takes place on June 29, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Sunday. The Lake Orion Fireworks Association is hosting a brunch at the Lake Orion Boat Club, located on an island near Heights Road. The cost is $10/person. Other events include a silent auction, face painting and a boat wash for $10. People […]
Did you know bowling’s become trendy again? And so has enrolling kids in dance school. Granddaughter Ryan, 3 1/2, performed in her first dance recital last Saturday, along with a couple of other hundred area children — for the most part girls. Ryan did have one little boy in her class and that’s the only […]
A long investigation as to why there was a major power outage in this country last week isn’t necessary. I know why. The companies who bottle water did it. Can you imagine how much bottled spring, purified, mountain — you name it — water must have been sold. Not only did the companies knock out […]
Back in 1982, the Verwood Hotel stood boarded up and empty in the village’s downtown area. The then Lake Orion Village Manager Jim Stump approached developer Carl Messer about constructing an 18 unit complex on the site. Messer told village council members on June 23, Stump felt the remodeling of Verwood was vital to the […]
You know you’re getting old… when everyone you know seems to be retired. Spent Friday night celebrating with people from the village saying goodbye to Pat Fry, who has been a police dispatcher for a very long time. Although officially leaving the police department as a retiree, Pat will return this fall working some hours […]
Let’s see, my car was rear-ended on M-24 last December. During most of the winter months, I suffered through frozen pipes on a regular basis. In April, like everyone else, I experienced the ‘ice storm of the century.? And my car hood became decorated with dents from fallen branches. To get away from it all, […]
Details are still sketchy about an armed robbery at Tobacco Gallery on July 3 at 1:18 p.m.. According to Lake Orion Police Lieutenant Harold Rossman, a man walked into the store on North Park Blvd. armed with a knife. Somehow the female cashier was able to lock herself in the bathroom. A camera recorded the […]
A decision to offer full year driver’s education for the first time this past year uncovered a problem. The Lake Orion School District doesn’t make any money providing this service. In fact, it costs money to teach area teens how to drive. ‘There’s a question whether we should even be in this business at all,? […]
Sometimes being in the newspaper business can be quite rewarding. Latest case in point. Lori Tirpak’s daughter Gina graduated from Lake Orion High School this year. Mom took plenty of pictures during the graduation ceremony. Unfortunately, the place where she took her film to be developed had a machine that ‘ate her film.? So here […]