Thirty-six percent. A million dollars over the next two years. Those were the numbers supplied to the Orion Township Board of Trustees when Supervisor Matthew Gibb disclosed news of 2011 health plan rates announced by Blue Cross and Blue Shield. “I was shocked and dismayed by Blue Cross,” Gibb said during the board’s regular meeting […]
Cassandra Ulbrich Casandra Ulbrich, (D) is running for State Senate 12th District because she’s tired of watching partisan bickering balloon out of control while not much of anything else is accomplished. “We have 29 of 38 State Senators term limited this year,” said Ulbrich, 35. “We have a great opportunity to change the culture in […]
John Bingham Jr., an Orion Township resident and the democratic candidate for County Commission District 3, did not return a call from the Review. Michael J. Gingell (R), first elected Oakland County Commissioner, District 3, in November 2006, says he’s ready to come back and continue his work with the commission, where he’s currently serving […]
The Consumer’s Energy regulator station near Broadway and Elizabeth did what it was designed to do on Monday evening. But then it kept going. The loud chugging noise went on for nearly an hour, and the smell in the air was heavy and unmistakable: Natural gas. ‘The regulator stations are designed so if an over-pressure […]
A newly assembled group of people began looking on the bright side of town last week when the new Lake Orion Area Optimist Club was officially chartered. The club, with 29 charter members, began to assemble early last summer when Roger Diederich and Don Brose, chairmen of new club building for the Clarkston Area Optimist […]
Crews working to retool the General Motors Orion Assembly plant said returning workers won’t recognize the place when they return to the job in months ahead. The plant was gutted, floor to ceiling, after most of the workforce was laid off and the last car rolled off the line. But engineers, electricians and others have […]
Orion Township officials are scheduled to meet Wednesday to finish hammering out next year’s budget, but a preliminary draft shows the township once again will operate with an fund balance well over 100 percent. The fund balance – a “rainy day” savings account of sorts – has a projected year-end total of $5,598,249. Projected year-end […]
‘You will be challenged – no flat, paved straightaways on this course – and you will conquer?’ The words come from a flier advertising Footprints in the Forest, an upcoming four-mile run/two-mile hike on the trails of Bald Mountain State Recreation Area. But, whether they meant it that way or not, those words metaphorically represent […]
Somewhere in the auditorium, a young girl cried. One by one, a voice punctuated the silence as students, faculty and others spoke aloud the names of loved ones affected by breast cancer. Some 175 participants kicked off the seventh annual Lake Orion Schools Dragon GAP & Lady Dragons ‘Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Two-Mile Charity […]
The long-awaited Streetscape project meant to give downtown Lake Orion a bright new face’and a brighter future to match’finally got underway Tuesday with a groundbreaking ceremony in Children’s Park. The park, said Downtown Development Authority Executive Director Suzanne Perreault, is first in line for a facelift. Contractors will begin to mobilize this week. Projects include […]