Lions up to their ears in corn

With a pile of corn some 75 dozen ears high, the Lake Orion Lions Club treated market-goers to a special treat last week. ‘The Farmers Market is a great community event and we were so happy they asked us to be part of it again this year,? said Lions Club member Jim Leach Jr., noting […]

‘It’s easy to have these conversations?

The community response is overwhelmingly positive. That’s the word from Karen Hudson, who said she was ‘very pleasantly surprised? by the reaction from those who stopped by the 1,000 Conversations About Mental Health in Lake Orion tent at last weekend’s Dragon on the Lake event. After she and her husband Hugh lost their son, Michael, […]

Medical marijuana debate reaches into Orion community

Marijuana plants large and small were on display at the Oakland County Sheriff’s office last week, along with shotguns, handguns, hash oil, electronic scales and boxes, bags and jars of pot ? dried-and-ready-to-smoke in varieties like Blueberry, Papaya, Super Skunk, Dirt Weed and Grand Daddy Purp. Candy, too ? bright-colored marijuana lollipops in watermelon, peach, […]

Pizzariffic wins township’s last liquor license

The crowd hesitated, then broke into a round of applause. Some cheered. The Orion Township Board of Trustees voted 4-2 Monday to recommend approval of Pizzariffic owner Michael Becker’s Class C Liquor License. But it didn’t come without a few tense moments as two other applicants who were also seeking the township’s last available license […]

Take that, Wildcat!

The Dragons engage in their traditional victory celebration with fans after Friday’s 45-6 blowout victory over Oxford. See this week’s print edition, or check out our Facebook page for more photos from the game. Photo by Laura Colvin

Take that, Wildcat!

The Dragons engage in their traditional victory celebration with fans after Friday’s 45-6 blowout victory over Oxford. See this week’s print edition, or check out our Facebook page for more photos from the game. Photo by Laura Colvin

Orion ponders renewable energy proposal

If one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, is one man’s garbage another man’s gas? The folks at Waste Management of Michigan and Eagle Valley Landfill say yes ? methane gas, anyway ? and they’re hoping to break ground soon on a renewable energy facility in Orion Township. The proposal, recently presented to the township’s […]

A buncha birds and one stone

Lifelong Lake Orion resident Michael Becker is making a return trip to the township board Aug. 30, 7 p.m., for a second go-round at securing a liquor license for his restaurant, Pizzariffic. Unconfirmed rumors suggest a big-money vendor might be out making friends in high places in hopes of hitting the last-liquor-license-jackpot. I don’t know […]

Community stunned by stabbing, ruinous blaze

Richard Darrin saw movement in the woods ahead. A woman, lying on the ground, raised her arm in the air. ‘I think she was trying to get someone’s attention,” said Darrin, who alerted firefighters Sunday after he found Rosemary Rangi, covered in soot and suffering from multiple stab wounds, behind her Orion Township home. “At […]

Community stunned by stabbing, runious blaze

Richard Darrin saw movement in the woods ahead. A woman, lying on the ground, raised her arm in the air. ‘I think she was trying to get someone’s attention,” said Darrin, who alerted firefighters Sunday after he found Rosemary Rangi, covered in soot and suffering from multiple stab wounds, behind her Orion Township home. “At […]

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