Liam Haverty wasn’t the least bit surprised. ‘I knew you would win,? he told his dad after the Lake Orion family returned to the parking lot for photos once Chalk Art Challenge winners were announced at the Sept. 26-27 Dragon on the Lake events. Will Haverty, a project manager for a government services company, said […]
Four weeks with my head in the editor’s hat here at the Review. I’ve met lots of new people, heard some interesting stories and seen some interesting things. A giant, fire-breathing dragon, for example. And dragons’approximately the size and shape of high school boys’who appear to breathe fire when they, say, take a 42-12 homecoming […]
Residents around Orion swear they spotted a dragon on the lake last weekend. But they also saw dragons in the park’chalked on the pavement, twisted from balloons, tattooed on arms and backs, and painted on faces. At one point, a drove of dragons’small rubber ones’was even spotted floating down the creek. The first annual Dragon […]
Sheriff boats on Lake Orion next summer, or not? So far, no one knows. After Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard announced he was axing routine Marine Division patrols from all county lakes’along with other big cuts’in order carve $13.3 million from next year’s budget, residents decided they’d better do something. But the answers aren’t coming […]
About a dozen protesters’armed with flags, homemade signs and a sharp message for President Barack Obama’lined the sidewalk in front Kroger during afternoon rush hour Friday. ‘Obama lied, freedom died,? roared 10-year-old Natalie Bommarito as motorists traveling M-24 through Lake Orion honked, shouted and waved. Like other so-called Tea Party demonstrations taking place across the […]
It’s been less than two weeks since I arrived in town, but a busy two weeks it’s been. I’ve already attended a Tea Party (no tea, but plenty of angry Americans), a sculpture garden gallery opening at Lake Orion High School, and two football games’Dragons won both, woo-hoo! What a wild football town. I made […]
Jean Vallad said she doesn’t see herself as ‘a more important? member now that she’s chair of the Springfield Township Parks Commission. First elected 16 years ago, Vallad was recently selected to head the group when former chairperson Rich Parke announced his resignation, citing a cross-country, job-related move. ‘I see myself as one of seven […]
Most of us wish we were better at something. I wish I were better at goodbye. I wish I knew a way to let you know what the last three years at the Clarkston News have meant to me as a writer, a reporter, a photographer and a friend. I will never be able to […]
Voters returned incumbents John Ranville and Michael Toth to the village council Tuesday, and newcomers Douglas Hobbs and Lawrence Stumkat each won a seat, as well. A scant 9.1 percent of the village’s 2,147 registered voters cast a ballot in the election, with 195 showing up at the polls while another 17 voted by absentee […]
Lake Orion riparian John Strand wonders if next year’s Fourth of July fireworks are in jeopardy, now that the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office has announced a plan to pull its boats from area lakes. Some of his neighbors, Strand said, worry the Sheriff’s better-than-nothing plan for jump boats’which will respond to emergency situations on county […]