Lifelong Lake Orion resident Michael Becker is making a return trip to the township board Aug. 30, 7 p.m., for a second go-round at securing a liquor license for his restaurant, Pizzariffic. Unconfirmed rumors suggest a big-money vendor might be out making friends in high places in hopes of hitting the last-liquor-license-jackpot. I don’t know […]
Richard Darrin saw movement in the woods ahead. A woman, lying on the ground, raised her arm in the air. ‘I think she was trying to get someone’s attention,” said Darrin, who alerted firefighters Sunday after he found Rosemary Rangi, covered in soot and suffering from multiple stab wounds, behind her Orion Township home. “At […]
Richard Darrin saw movement in the woods ahead. A woman, lying on the ground, raised her arm in the air. ‘I think she was trying to get someone’s attention,” said Darrin, who alerted firefighters Sunday after he found Rosemary Rangi, covered in soot and suffering from multiple stab wounds, behind her Orion Township home. “At […]
For the Lake Orion Dragons, the 1983 varsity football season was two weeks too long. That was the word, anyway, from a story written by then-editor Al Zawacky for the on Nov. 9, 1983 edition of The Lake Orion Review. The Dragons went down in flames, not only in the last game of 1983, but […]
The pictures rolled across the screen one after another. Over and over, the memorial movie my sister made for Grandma’s funeral transported us back to a different time, triggered a memory, tugged on an already-taut heartstring or, once again, pushed open the floodgates. I can’t believe she’s gone. I loved her so much. So we […]
Police and fire personnel were dispatched to the 300 block of Greenshield just before 1 p.m. today for a home fully engulfed in flames. Once on the scene, responding deputies located a 56-year-old female with multiple stab wounds inside the home. According to Oakland County Undersheriff Mike McCabe, the woman’s wounds ‘were not self-inflicted.? She […]
Democrat Casandra Ulbrich says she’s ready to go toe-to-toe with Orion Township resident Jim Marleau in the race to replace term-limited Sen. Mike Bishop in the State Senate 12th District. “We’re going to be campaigning very actively,” said Ulbrich, 35, of Rochester. “We’ve got a good team in place, we’ve got great volunteers and we’re […]
Family tradition turned to tragedy last week when a Lake Orion High School student and his father drowned in Lake Superior. Eric Smith, 16, of Lake Orion, and his father, Douglas Smith, 50, of Oxford, were swimming in Grand Marais Harbor off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula about 6 p.m. Aug. 5 when a riptide pulled them […]
The election process barely skipped a beat during a brief power outage in precincts 8 and 9 last Tuesday. That’s the word from Orion Township Clerk Penny Shults, who said efforts made by a number of individuals kept everything rolling along smoothly. “It was pretty exciting to see everyone pull together to make sure the […]
By Laura Colvin Review editor People are desperate. That’s the word from Orion Township Det. Sgt. Michael Suarez as deputies respond to an increasing string of crime around the township. Over the past several weeks, a number of homes and businesses have been burglarized throughout the Orion area. “It’s spread around, not confined to one […]