Kaitlyn stands with her big brother Lucus, 6, as her twin sister, Madelyn, offers up a quizzical look while she sits on the Easter Bunny’s lap during the Bunny Bop at the Orion Community Center on Saturday. The festivities included photo opportunities with The Bunny himself, an Easter Egg hunt, crafts and a real bunny. […]
By Jim Newell Review Editor The Paint Creek Elementary cafeteria is what one would expect at an elementary school: kids sitting together, eating and laughing, tripping over backpacks and hanging up their coats. Walking over to hug one another and the parents and teachers nearby. But last Wednesday was a little more colorful than most […]
By Susan Carroll Review Writer During the March 26 Lake Orion Village Council meeting, President Ken VanPortfliet said the Road Commission for Oakland County is researching the possibility of putting a mini-roundabout at the three-way intersection of E. Flint, Miller and Orion roads. A mini-roundabout has a single-lane and a small diameter, and are smaller […]
By Jim Newell Review Editor Orion Township Trustee Ronald Sliwinski pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor assault and battery charge on March 21. Sliwinski entered the plea in Judge Julie Nicholson’s 52-3 District Court in Rochester Hills. While a no contest plea is not an admission of guilt, it is treated as so during sentencing. […]
The Road Commission for Oakland County expects construction on Phase I of the Baldwin Road widening and streetscape project to begin on April 2. This is the second year of the project, which will focus on Baldwin Road from Gregory Road north to Morgan Road in Orion Township. The project involves widening and reconstructing Baldwin […]
I truly hope that our Orion Township Board elected officials will remember the information that was first presented to them by JoAnn VanTassel, and then later shared and written about by me and then published in The Lake Orion Review in January of 2015 that was in regards to waste haulers: Re: No Authority for […]
We already have only one garbage hauler come down our road in NW Orion Township. That is because Odd Job Disposal was willing to back down our private road to pick up my trash. When my neighbors saw that they no longer had to carry their trash down to the main road they all signed […]
It is that time of year folks — we have to shift into cycle awareness mode. We are already seeing our motorcycle friends and neighbors chasing winter away from Lake Orion. Please take a moment to consider some scary data, and some interesting data, that tells us cycle riders that crash statistics are changing – […]
By Jim Newell Review Editor The Orion Township Board of Trustees voted unanimously on Monday to form an ad-hoc committee to explore consolidating the township’s waste collection services. Currently, each homeowner contracts their own garbage and recycling services. Board members began the discussion because this is the time of year that waste haulers need to […]
By Jim Newell Review Editor How do you get to the robotics world championships? Practice, practice, practice. Robotics Team 302 from Lake Orion High School now has that advantage with a new practice field at the Community Education Resource Center (CERC). Team 302 won the Miami Valley Regional at Wright State University in Fairborn, Ohio […]