Kent Turner said he was going to cry. Then he said it again. Standing by as longtime postal employee Charlotte Cito talked about her impending retirement, Turner, retail supervisor at the Lake Orion post office, said he was going to miss his friend. ‘I’ve had the blessing of working with Char for the last seven […]
Hit the bricks. That, essentially, was the message Orion Township sent ten employees last week? including one with a 32-year tenure’in an effort to balance next year’s budget without dipping into the township’s hefty fund balance. Although the township had a general fund balance of $6,073,781 as of Dec. 31, 2008’about 102 percent of its […]
Chizzy. It’s not an average, ordinary name, but most probably wouldn’t label him’clad in tie-dye with a wild, curly mane that suits his unreserved personality’as an average, ordinary guy. And while he’s done and seen a thing or two in his 42 years, Chizzy’who’s real name is Mike Chisholm’plans to accomplish something special in Orion […]
Liam Haverty wasn’t the least bit surprised. ‘I knew you would win,? he told his dad after the Lake Orion family returned to the parking lot for photos once Chalk Art Challenge winners were announced at the Sept. 26-27 Dragon on the Lake events. Will Haverty, a project manager for a government services company, said […]
Four weeks with my head in the editor’s hat here at the Review. I’ve met lots of new people, heard some interesting stories and seen some interesting things. A giant, fire-breathing dragon, for example. And dragons’approximately the size and shape of high school boys’who appear to breathe fire when they, say, take a 42-12 homecoming […]
Residents around Orion swear they spotted a dragon on the lake last weekend. But they also saw dragons in the park’chalked on the pavement, twisted from balloons, tattooed on arms and backs, and painted on faces. At one point, a drove of dragons’small rubber ones’was even spotted floating down the creek. The first annual Dragon […]
Sheriff boats on Lake Orion next summer, or not? So far, no one knows. After Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard announced he was axing routine Marine Division patrols from all county lakes’along with other big cuts’in order carve $13.3 million from next year’s budget, residents decided they’d better do something. But the answers aren’t coming […]
About a dozen protesters’armed with flags, homemade signs and a sharp message for President Barack Obama’lined the sidewalk in front Kroger during afternoon rush hour Friday. ‘Obama lied, freedom died,? roared 10-year-old Natalie Bommarito as motorists traveling M-24 through Lake Orion honked, shouted and waved. Like other so-called Tea Party demonstrations taking place across the […]
It’s been less than two weeks since I arrived in town, but a busy two weeks it’s been. I’ve already attended a Tea Party (no tea, but plenty of angry Americans), a sculpture garden gallery opening at Lake Orion High School, and two football games’Dragons won both, woo-hoo! What a wild football town. I made […]
Jean Vallad said she doesn’t see herself as ‘a more important? member now that she’s chair of the Springfield Township Parks Commission. First elected 16 years ago, Vallad was recently selected to head the group when former chairperson Rich Parke announced his resignation, citing a cross-country, job-related move. ‘I see myself as one of seven […]