One seat on the Lake Orion Village is currently vacant due to the resignation of Charlotte Patton. She and her husband Jack have moved to Oakland Township. Patton also represented the council on the parks and recreation committee and the cable commission. Village officials have 30 days to pick her replacement. The replacement will serve […]
It won’t be in 2004, but if Jordan Desilets has his way about it, you’ll see him running with the USA track team in the next summer Olympic Games. Desilets, 23, got his start as a distance runner for the Lake Orion High School cross country team, and the LOHS graduate currently runs for the […]
A 19-year-old Ash Drive man returned to his apartment at Sycamore Creek off Baldwin Road on Aug. 4 to find his pet pit bull missing. According to an Oakland County Sheriff’s Department report, the man had come home and found his dog missing from his apartment. A screen that had covered the living room window […]
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Department reported the deployment of a taser to subdue a man on Heights Road on Aug. 3. An OCSD deputy was on patrol when he observed a subject asleep on a tractor at the corner of Heights and Fairledge. According to the report, the deputy said the man was intoxicated and […]
It’s never too early in Michigan to think about snow. Lake Orion Village Council members recently OK’d their annual winter maintenance agreement with the Road Commission for Oakland County. The agreement calls for the road commission to pay the village to take care of snow and ice control on Bellevue from Heights north to the […]
Four companies responded to a request for bids by the Village of Lake Orion to take down trees and do some tree trimming. Although G&G Tree Service was low bidder at $2,450, village council members on July 26 awarded the contract to Lonnie’s Tree Service for $2,950. Council members picked Lonnie’s because the company said […]
Everything seems to be under control, but it took a while. Drivers at the M-24/Flint intersection had been dealing with timing issues at the traffic light for over a week earlier in July. The malfunction was reported to the Road Commission for Oakland County on July 13, according to Lake Orion Police Chief Jerry Narsh. […]
Downtown Lake Orion was sorry to disappoint the crowd who turned out last week to see Three Men and a Tenor perform in the gazebo at Children’s Park on South Broadway. The group needed to travel a good distance to get to Lake Orion and they needed to begin to set up by 2 p.m. […]
BY LYNNE ANNE HUFF Special to The Lake Orion Review For a long time now — to this very day — you have not deserted your brothers, but have carried out the mission the Lord your God gave you. Joshua 22:3. And so it was as 40 teens carried out the theme of their summer […]
The Michigan Department of Education published on Aug. 5 the 2004 Education YES! School Report Cards, along with the federal No Child Left Behind required Adequate Yearly Progress status for all the state’s public schools. All seven Lake Orion elementary schools and the three middle schools demonstrated proficiency in reading and mathematics in 2003-04. All […]