A woman flew back to the Lake Orion area from Texas last week to face charges of embezzlement and fraud at the Lakes Community Credit Union on North Park Blvd. Norma Davila, 29, waived her preliminary exam during her arraignment Rochester 3rd/2nd District Court. Her case now moves on to circuit court. Davila is free […]
Village police officers respond to a lot of calls regarding lakefront land disputes, especially ones that involve neighbors stepping on to another’s property. Lake Orion Police Chief Jerry Narsh hopes to slow that time consuming policing process by using its trespassing law. Margaret Parr, 51, of Lakeview was arraigned on Sept. 23 in Rochester’s 3rd/2nd […]
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Department responded to a call of identification fraud on Fox Hollow Court on Sept. 23. According to an OCSD report, a 45-year-old man said his 18-year-old son had used his identity to obtain a cell phone. His son was recently released into his custody after serving time in a home for […]
Time to kick off fall with Orion Township Parks and Recreations Barn Daze at Friendship Park on Oct. 11 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Activities for the entire family include a petting farm, pony rides, hay wagon rides, horseshoe throwing, children’s games, family photos, antique tractors, live demonstrations, Civil War living history and encampment, chili challenge, […]
Dig out your old green and white sweatshirt. Lake Orion High School’s Homecoming Parade this Friday in the Village of Lake Orion. It’s scheduled to begin at 5 and conclude by 5:30 p.m. The parade route starts at the Ehman Center on Elizabeth Street, travels southbound on Broadway to Front, continues westbound along Front Street […]
Drivers on village streets will probably not see any bright yellow lines any time soon. Lake Orion Village Council members on Sept. 22 were hesitant to approve any contract for striping work. “It seems like it should be done in the spring. It doesn’t make sense (to do it now),” council president Bill Siver said. […]
Lake Orion High School student Matt Zitzmann was visiting his grandmother at a senior assisted living facility in Fraser when he came up with an idea that has changed the lives of area senior citizens forever. Zitzmann, a senior, recently implemented a service learning project where he restores and rebuilds old computers for use in […]
The first 911 system in the village’s dispatch center was installed in 1985. At that time, Lake Orion paid an annual maintenance service agreement to Ameritech based on half of the cost of the agreement. Oakland County Information Technology paid the other half. According to LO Police Chief Jerry Narsh, the fee was paid up […]
Even when she’s in bed, Jan Adams might be thinking about accounting “I wake up in the middle of the night and I’ll do the family budget,” the new financial director/treasurer of the Village of Lake Orion said. Adams, an Orion Township resident, was named to the position in July to replace Cathy Thorlakson who […]
We have to love government once in a while or we would all start popping Prozac. The latest case in point is a village council discussion about the bottom draw down tube that was constructed in Green’s Park back in 1991. You have to understand I’ve been editor of this paper since 1989 and have […]