Editorial: Don’t trim the wrong ‘fat? from schools

When you go to the butcher, point out a cut of meat and say ‘trim the fat? you don’t expect to see him grab the cleaver and start carving the white flecks of fat’the marbling’from within your steak. The more marbling, after all, the higher the USDA grade; the well-marbled ‘prime? grade is the good […]

Gibb: Just gab?

I’ve heard about the vision three or four times now. You know’the one about the Lake Orion High School grad who, while sitting in some California coffee shop sipping a latte, opens a magazine and finds a feature from back home. ‘Orion Township, one of the coolest places on earth to live, to work, to […]

Deputy Reports

Enough for smoke and stogies An employee at a gas station in the 700 block of Lapeer reported a 4-door Chevy Cobalt with an Ohio license plate pumped $25.99 in gas March 15 and drove off without paying. The employee also said the passenger purchased a pack of cigarettes and two Swisher Sweet cigars with […]

Thieves smash glass, grab goods

Thieves smashed windows from about a dozen cars Saturday night in Orion Township, making off with GPS units, iPods, laptops, a set of expensive golf clubs and other items left in vehicles overnight. ‘If you leave your belongings in the car you’re just inviting someone to steal them,? said Sgt. Michael Suarez of the Oakland […]

Township water storage facility closer to reality

Orion Township is ready to make a deal. Almost. That’s the word from township Supervisor Matthew Gibb, who on Monday took the board of trustees into executive session to present an update on negotiations between the township and General Motors in a long-planned venture to build a water tower near the Orion Assembly Plant. ‘We’re […]

Deputy Reports

Drive An Orion Township woman filed a police report March 5 after learning an unknown person fraudulently used her credit card’to the tune of $930’for a rental car. Missing meds A 34-year-old woman living on Heights Road called police March 6 after discovering some of her medication was missing when she returned home after a […]

Students challenged to ‘be the change?

George Edwards wasn’t sure what, exactly, he was getting into when he threw his hat into the ring at Lake Orion High School’s inaugural Challenge Day in 2007, but as the parent of four children’two LOHS grads, a junior and a middle-schooler’he was happy to volunteer. The experience, he said, was unforgettable. ‘I heard things […]

Deputy Reports

Smash n? grab A woman called police March 2 to report she’d arrived at work on Northpoint Drive about 8:30 a.m. and went back to her car around 11:30 a.m. to discover a window smashed from her vehicle and her purse missing from the front seat where she’d left it. Night out gone bad A […]

Lake patrols to return for boating season

Worried riparian owners breathed a sigh of relief Monday after learning sheriff patrol boats would arrive on Lake Orion as usual this summer. The Orion Township Board of Trustees voted 6-0 to approve about $20,000-$25,000 in funding for the patrols, which were axed from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office budget last fall amid some $13 […]

Deputy Reports

No – Just NO! Deputies were looking to question a 40-year-old Orion Township man Feb. 25 after responding to an injured woman living on Eagle Vista Drive. According to police reports, the woman’who said her ‘on-again-off-again boyfriend was waiting when she returned from work’had a bruising and swelling of the face ‘to the point where […]

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