Show me a resourceful teacher, and I’ll show you some smart students. Webber Elementary teacher Michele Smyth is just such a teacher. By partnering with education fundraising website Donors Choose, Smyth has garnered $3,631 in materials for her classes. Items like a CD player with wireless headphones, a Canon digital camera, phonics games, sets of […]
Orion residents went to the polls in force with more than 19,000 out of 26,000 registered voters casting ballots in Orion Township. Seventy three percent of registered voters, slightly under the 2008 turnout of more than 77 percent, cast ballots. More than 14,000 voters cast their ballot in person this election, while about 4,200 Orion […]
Is your stomach starting to growl thinking of the turkey, yams, stuffing, and cranberry salad to come next week? If you’re like most families, you’ve probably already started to prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday. Like the rest of our neighbors, food pantries around the region are getting ready for the big dinner, and here’s how […]
Michigan’s gubernatorial leaders paid a visit last week to a Lake Orion business and witnessed local innovation. Governor Rick Snyder and Lt. Governor Brian Calley stopped by while on his ballot proposal information tour to meet with the men and women who work at Molds, Patterns, and Dies (MPD). Snyder praised MPD as one of […]
Orion Township residents may be in line for a new fire station. Estimated to cost less than $1.5 million, the new fire station will replace Fire Station #2 on Silverbell Road. This development came about when Orion Township Fire Chief Robert Smith requested renovations or an expansion to the current building. ‘I didn’t go into […]
You’ve heard of the three R’s, but here are two other ways Lake Orion School District helps to build your children into strong and productive citizens. Twice a week, Webber Elementary Principal Sarah Manzo and Kindergarten teacher Dawn Burks coach girls from grades three through five in a program called Girls on the Run. These […]
I stepped into a handmade voting booth yesterday. Unlike precincts I’ve visited in the past, this time the booth was crafted by some children from my district. Patriotic slogans and colorful renditions of American symbols adorned the walls of my cardboard cubicle. These drawings brought to mind the future I was helping to create with […]
Puppies, ducks, and hedgehogs. You’d be forgiven if you thought the ‘Christmas for Everyone Christmas? Auction took place at a petting zoo this year. Put on by the Lake Orion Lions Club and held at Milosch’s Palace Chrysler Jeep and Dodge, this year’s dinner and auction was another roaring success. According to Chairman James Leach, […]
Orion residents went to the polls in force with more than 19,000 out of 26,000 registered voters casting ballots in Orion Township. Seventy three percent of registered voters, slightly under the 2008 turnout of more than 77 percent. More than 14,000 voters cast their ballot in person this election, while about 4,200 Orion Twp. residents […]
‘It turned out to be a really good year, and we had fun, didn’t we?? Dawn LeMaster asked Charlotte Anker. Lemaster and Anker were chatting out in the hall after being recognized before a standing-room only assembly at the Oct. 24 Lake Orion School Board meeting. Lemaster was just awarded the grand prize in a […]