Monday, April 16 12:52 p.m.-a caller reported a pole leaning in roadway on Lapeer Road. Station #1 responded. 1:10 p.m.-a caller reported down wires and a tree in roadway on Park Island. Station #1 responded. 1:15 p.m.-a caller reported a tree hit a home on Baldwin. Station #3 responded. 3:49 p.m.-a caller reported down wire […]
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Department has obtained a warrant for the arrest of a 21-year-old Pontiac man in connection with an armed robbery last week on Parakeet Hill. At press time, the suspect was not yet in police custody. According to an OCSD report, two men forced their way into the home late last Tuesday […]
The 18th Annual Mike Quinn Golf Classic will be held on May 12 at the Copper Hills Golf Course in Oxford. The event was started in 1990 to help raise money for Mike Quinn, a Lake Orion youth with leukemia. This year, the event will help Ryder Berman, a one-year-old with Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia who […]
The Orion Township board approved a final Planned Unit Development and adopted a rezoning request for the Dutton Corporate Centre. The actions were taken at the board’s April 16 meeting. The end result will be a 10.61-acres located on the east side of M-24, just north of Dutton Road that will soon become a bank, […]
The Orion Township board finalized funding for their previously agreed on repair of several gravel roads in the township. The board approved unrestricting $100,000 of funds for Baldwin Road widening from the General Capital Improvement Fund and transferred the funds to a Repair of Roads account. The township’s agreement to purchase 19,200 linear feet of […]
Lake Orion High School graduates Nick Agro and Mark Derosiers will be featured in an upcoming television program on the Food Network. The pair, both 1990 LOHS grads, will be part of a program called ‘Fantasy Weddings,? that features three unique and ‘over-the-top? weddings. Agro and Deroisiers live in Denver, where they put on a […]
The Lake Orion boys track team improved to 2-1 in league action with a 74-54 win over Troy last Tuesday, while the girls fell to 0-3 with a 76-52 loss. J. P. Findlay (100 dash), David Wurst (200 dash) and Robby Lentz (long jump) all won individual events and teamed with Aaron Allen to win […]
Tony Battaglia, owner and builder of Orion Township’s Palazzo di Bocce, presented a check for $7,000 to the Oakland Land Conservancy on April 16 in an informal ceremony at the bocce palace, located on Lapeer Road. The funding is part of the proceeds from the Detroit Lions Charities 2006 Bocce Tournament, which Battaglia co-chaired. The […]
The May 8 election is quickly approaching and I would like to introduce you to a candidate that I think is highly qualified for the position on the Board of Education. Her name is Kelly Roy. She has been endorsed by the Lake Orion Education Association, as the teachers? choice. Kelly has a Bachelor’s degree […]
I disagree with those who say the tax increases required for the May 8 Orion Township Safety Path and Library Expansion Proposals are not warranted. I want to pose the opposite viewpoint. Both the safety path system and the library are assets which improve quality of life and raise property values. Once funded, both can […]