According to Lake Orion Police Lieutenant Harold Rossman, alcohol was definitely a factor in a boat crash on July 19 on Lake Orion. Three people were injured — a 31 year old man from Rochester, a 25 year-old man from Warren and a 21 year old Warren woman. The three were transported to an area […]
Although there was some discussion earlier in the year about making Green’s Park a year round facility, it’s not likely to happen in 2003. Lake Orion’s Parks and Recreation Committee recently recommended to the village council the park on M-24 stay open, but LO Village Manager JoAnn Van Tassel wants more input before any decision […]
As one of his first jobs as a new Oakland County commissioner, Eric Wilson asked the board to give three municipalities some financial help with two recent elections. His contention is that residents of Orion and Oakland Township and the Village of Lake Orion were without representation three months due to a vacancy in the […]
A parks and recreation committee that was created four years ago to improve village parks is being restructured. Lake Orion Village Council members have agreed with LO Village Manager JoAnn Van Tassel’s suggestion to change the group of volunteers into a task force. They would meet with Van Tassel three to four times a year […]
The boating accident on Lake Orion on Saturday night reinforced some of the worries lakefront owners expressed in a recent survey conducted by the Lake Orion Lake Association. LOLA received 229 survey responses back from the 950 it sent out last fall. Questions centered on summer and winter usage, water quality, weeds, zoning and public […]
Several members of Lake Orion’s Parks and Recreation Committee told village council members on July 28 they’re not happy they weren’t notified about plans to change the committee into a task force. ‘If this continues to happen, you’ll run every volunteer out of here,? long-time committee member Lisa Simpkins said. Committee member Jerry Richards called […]
How much should be charged for using school facilities? Increasing fees or adding facility fees is one way Lake Orion School Board members are considering to bring more revenues into the school district. Lisa Sokol, principal of the CERC building, and members of her staff were asked to look at the possibility of increasing fees […]
Remember all the stories about bulimic and anorexia teenage girls from a few years ago? Although eating disorders are still a national problem, the focus has changed to adolescents/teens who are overweight/obese. According to the 1999-2000 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, obesity increased dramatically during the late 1990s. The study showed that nine million […]
Even if village officials decide not to overhaul their water/sewer rate structures, their financial advisor has recommended they raise rates at least for the next five years. Robert Bendzinski predicted Lake Orion would have unknown amount increases in Detroit water and sewer rates over that time period He made that prediction in a recently completed […]
Here’s some human body trivia that’s sure to impress friends and family. Medical researchers contend that no disease ever identified has ever been completely eradicated. The attachment of human skin to the muscles is what causes dimples. In 1972, a group of medical researchers reported you could cure the common cold by freezing the big […]