Golf’s best senior players will converge on Lake Orion next July 9-15, to play the Old Course at Indianwood Country Club in the thirty-third U.S. Senior Open Championship. This will be the fourth major championship held at Indianwood. The club also hosted the 1930 Western Open and 1989 and 1994 Women’s U.S. Open tournaments. Since […]
Borders in Auburn Hills finally closed its doors last week. I enjoy reading and it felt like I lost a good friend. Every time I thought the giant bookseller may turn the corner over the past couple of years, it faced another setback. This summer the creditors came calling one last time and nobody thought […]
When Lisa Sokol took over as director of the four-room Orion Senior Center eight years ago, she counted 100 active members. Today, there are more than 1,500 and the numbers keep growing, thanks in part to the area’s aging population. Needless to say, she is looking forward to moving into the 27,000 square-foot Orion Center […]
Everybody knows where they were ten years ago, on Sept. 11, 2001. Yet students in Scott Maxfield’s fifth-grade class at Orion Oaks Elementary were just babies then. They have no memories of that fateful day in U.S. history. Thanks to some special visitors last week, however, they had a chance to ask plenty of questions. […]
By Joe St. Henry Review Editor Step into Lake Orion High School teacher Drew Towlerton’s classroom midday and it is quickly apparent this is not a typical class. The tenth- through twelfth-grade students enrolled in the Learning Options program are each working on a computer at their desks ? some wireless net books and others […]