BY ELAINE STIEB Lake Orion Review Editor With not much information coming out of Lansing, Lake Orion Finance Director Jillynn Keppler put together another very conservative budget for the upcoming school year. ‘We are estimating; we don’t have a glass ball,? Keppler told school board members on June 8. ‘We’re not seeing much change coming […]
Daniel Smith, 54, of Lake Orion could give classes on what not to do if you want to commit a crime. Don’t leave a trail to allow police to follow you to your residence. Don’t have an illegal substance clearly visible when you invite police into your place. Smith’s troubles started in the late evening […]
According to Fireworks Committee members about 500 people attended this year’s breakfast benefit that took place at the Lake Orion Boat Club. That’s pretty good considering the only way to get to the island is by a water vehicle. My daughter-in-law Kelly and son Jason have worked on the committee for a few years and […]
An attempt by several village council members to hire a new Lake Orion Department of Public Works superintendent ‘from within? failed June 13. Councilmen, by a vote of 4-2, picked Scott Baker, who was Plymouth’s Assistant Director of Municipal Services from 1997-October 2004. Council members Tom Albert and Doug Dendel voted no to hiring Baker. […]
West of the bridge on Park Island Drive lies a small community of nice lakefront homes, many with attractive landscaping and lawns. What the residents don’t have is a paved road leading to their houses that’s in good shape. A group of them came to the Lake Orion Village Council meeting on June 13 asking […]
Start thinking Waste Away instead of Waste Management if you live in the village. Lake Orion officials are close to signing a contract with Waste Away for the village’s disposal services. The company is out of Ortonville. Waste Away came in as low bidder after nine different companies were asked to submit a proposal. Four […]
Whew! It’s darn hot. I’m not a big lover of air conditioning, but I’m liking the constant blast of cold air in our office. Usually, I complain because it’s so cold, I have to wear something long sleeved. The complaining stopped a few weeks ago. What a difference from last summer. I hardly wore shorts […]
One more public safety tower is coming to the area. Orion Township trustees on June 20 OK’d a site plan and a lease agreement with Oakland County to construct a 256 foot tower on property in the township’s Civic Center Park. A tower in the Village of Lake Orion was put up earlier this spring. […]
In the six years Dr. Craig Younkman spent at the helm of the Lake Orion School District, he saw the student population increase by 1,100 and guided construction of two new buildings and major renovations at other buildings. And his last several years here have been a financial challenge with shrinking financial support from the […]
Developers of a commercial center in Orion Township were denied a chance to establish an Industrial Development District by trustees on June 20. Ashley Capital had wanted the district for its Orion Commerce Center, to be located on Silverbell Road across from the Eagle Valley Landfill. Advantages of an IDD would have been the ability […]