This July 4th will be one long-remembered for some Orion Township residents as they struggled to continue their celebrations without the aid of electricity. A severe thunderstorm carrying winds up to 61 miles per hour blew through the area on Friday afternoon, knocking out power for 4,000 households in Orion Township. According to Detroit Edison […]
A township trustee to replace now county commissioner Eric Wilson will be named on July 21 by the Orion Township Board of Trustees. The board interviewed everyone who applied for the opening, a total of 16 candidates, prior to the regular board meeting on July 7. One candidate was unable to attend the interview session […]
With its construction scheduled to begin in 45 days, the Palazzo De Bocce has been recommended for approval by the Orion Township Board of Trustees for a Class C Liquor License. The board also considered an application for a new Class C Liquor License for Carrie Lee’s restaurant, ultimately denying that request. Both groups paid […]
Cooking and Rock and Roll music might seem an unlikely pairing, but the results seem to be working for Lake Orion prize-winning cook Susanne Corker. Corker decided to create her first recipe book, Rock and Roll Recipes, around the theme of classic Rock and Roll, with recipes like “I Wanna Hold Your Clam” clam chowder […]
Her job with the United States Post Office took her from the streets of Southgate to the streets of Oxford, and finally to an office in Lake Orion. Oxford resident Jan Acheson retired from the post office after 33 years on June 27, having served at the Lake Orion Post Office since 1984. Acheson, a […]
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Department charged a man with disorderly conduct and another man with careless driving after they were involved in a one-vehicle accident on Lapeer Road after playing with a firework. According to an OCSD report, a 16-year-old Harrison Township man was driving his 1998 Volvo southbound on Lapeer Road near Waldon Road […]
Union Church Governing Board President Burke Cueny told the Orion Township Board of Trustees that Union Church should be ready for the public by Halloween. “We’re expecting to open up the building before year’s end,” he said at the July 7 meeting, where the board accepted a bid from Lands Friend Builders to do floor […]
The combined commercial and residential planned unit development (PUD) project at Maybee and Baldwin Roads, known as Orion Village Crossing, will be done in phases with road work, paving and utilities to come first. Attorney Suzanne Reynolds, representing developer Anthony Ferlito, told the Orion Township Board of Trustees on July 7 that the phasing plan […]
For the first time in 47 years, Scripps Mansion will be open to the public on July 26-27 for the Art, Autos and Architecture event. The home was built in 1926 as a country home for William E. Scripps, whose family founded WWJ talk radio and Detroit Newspapers. The 67-room mansion is currently owned and […]
When Barb Hoffman and Sue Waymire of Oxford, and friend Pam Allen of Lake Orion, recently traveled to Anchorage, Alaska, they went there with a mission. The women had trained for nearly six months in order to walk in a 26.2-mile marathon, sponsored by The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, on June 21st. Hoffman and Waymire, […]