The local price tag will be higher, but officials think it’s still worth it to seek a state grant for much-needed repairs to the Deer Lake boat launch. The Independence Township Board on July 1 approved resolutions promising to match a Michigan Department of Natural Resources “Grant-in-Aid.” DNR procedures have caused a change in the […]
Bill Chamberlin’s campaign for better enforcement of handicapped parking regulations reached the Independence Township Board last week. Speaking during the public forum time at the Tuesday, July 15 meeting, Chamberlin asked trustees to endorse a program to train handicapped citizens to issue citations to unauthorized vehicles using handicapped parking spaces. Chamberlin also sought a resolution […]
The signs are not readable from the driver’s seat, but the message is clear to someone hoping to post signs for garage sales or real estate companies. “It is unlawful to post or attach any garage sale, lost pets or any type of advertising of any kind on regulatory signs or posts in the city […]
Clarkston’s Anita Demster decided to give Clarkston Area Youth Assistance a try eight years ago, and she hopes current residents follow her lead. “I have really enjoyed the experience. You really get a feeling that you are making a difference in a child’s life. You really watch it happening,” President of the Board of Directors […]
According to Lake Orion Police Lieutenant Harold Rossman, alcohol was definitely a factor in a boat crash on July 19 on Lake Orion. Three people were injured — a 31 year old man from Rochester, a 25 year-old man from Warren and a 21 year old Warren woman. The three were transported to an area […]
Orion Township residents will have to wait at least two more weeks before they find out who their new township trustee will be. Township board members deadlocked on a decision Monday night. The board was to have chosen a new trustee to replace Eric Wilson at the July 21 board meeting. Wilson resigned from the […]
Investigators from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department Crash Reconstruction Unit say alcohol may have been a factor in a vehicle/motorcycle accident that killed a Lake Orion man over the weekend. The accident occurred in Oakland Township about 9:45 p.m. on July 19, as 39-year-old Richard Valken of Lake Orion traveled westbound on Silverbell Road, west […]
Although there was some discussion earlier in the year about making Green’s Park a year round facility, it’s not likely to happen in 2003. Lake Orion’s Parks and Recreation Committee recently recommended to the village council the park on M-24 stay open, but LO Village Manager JoAnn Van Tassel wants more input before any decision […]
As one of his first jobs as a new Oakland County commissioner, Eric Wilson asked the board to give three municipalities some financial help with two recent elections. His contention is that residents of Orion and Oakland Township and the Village of Lake Orion were without representation three months due to a vacancy in the […]
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Department responded to a call of a stolen generator on Candlewick on July 16. According to an OCSD report, a 51-year-old man said that a $650 generator was stolen from his garage. The man, at approximately 8 p.m. the previous evening, had backed a project vehicle out of his garage to […]