An employee at an Orion Township tanning salon is facing ‘peeping tom? charges after a 22-year-old woman claimed the man peered into the tanning bed she was using at Yucatan on S. Lapeer Road. Stavro Adil Hamama, 24, a Troy resident, is scheduled for a June 29 preliminary exam before 52-3 District Court Judge Julie […]
Eastern Michigan University junior women’s golfer Darby Peters, a 2007 Lake Orion High School graduate, was recently named Academic All-Mid-American Conference. Peters, who played a significant role in the LOHS Girls’ Golf 2007 state championship, was also named first team All-MAC team at the MAC Championships earlier this year. The Academic All-MAC honor is awarded […]
Will we be forced to hook into the sewer you’re bringing through our neighborhood? Can we really tolerate more traffic in this area? How will drainage issues be addressed? Will the flooding at M-24 and Clarkston Road get worse, and what will you do if it does? What about the wetlands, and the protected habitat […]
Ray Partlo, whose wife is a cancer survivor, gets a hug from Nicole ‘Colie? Burton, also a survivor, at Saturday’s Relay for Life event in Friendship Park. Colie’s mom, Shelly Burton, spoke to the crowd during the afternoon, describing her little girl’s hard-fought battle with cancer and eventual journey into remission a year-and-a -half ago […]
The crowd at township offices rolled into a spontaneous and rare round of applause Monday as Orion Township Trustee Mark Crane stepped up to slap his two cents on the table. In front of the board for first reading was a proposed amendment to local zoning ordinance, which, if approved, would essentially outlaw medical marijuana […]
Sometimes it works the way it’s supposed to, other times it doesn’t. This week, one example of each, courtesy of my Orion Township beat. Exhibit A’s on the front page. The Orion Township Planning Commission spent the better part of four hours at one meeting both discussing and ‘listening? to concerns’some unfounded, some quite valid, […]
Two men who allegedly beat and raped a 52-year-old woman they held captive in a Lake Orion home for nearly two months are headed to trial in Oakland County 6th Circuit Court this week. Leon Jeffrey Setty, 54, and Frank Brian Bennett, 47’both long-time Lake Orion residents’were arraigned Nov. 11 on multiple charges of criminal […]
Thinking of a venture into medical marijuana now that it’s legal in Michigan? Better put the idea in your pipe; it’s about to go up in smoke. The Orion Township Planning Commission recently drafted an ordinance amendment, which — once passed by the township board of trustees — will require all local zoning or land […]
Two options, two price tags and one big question: Are emergency medical and fire dispatch services provided by Lake Orion’s Dispatch Center worth $61,000 more than those the county could provide? Depends who answers the question. First, some facts. Currently, emergency medical and fire dispatching are provided to Orion Township residents via contract with the […]
When homework was done, costs were just about double the original estimates. That was the word from Orion Township Supervisor Matthew Gibb as he presented revised plans for a proposed senior center complex behind K-mart at Clarkston Road and M-24. The original proposal for the 27,000-square-foot building put costs at about $1.3 million, but Gibb […]