My friends living in Harbor Springs sent this to me to share with my readers. They don’t have much to do in Harbor Springs this time of the year. If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food […]
Mark Brancheau believes he’s as close to a ghetto as he ever wants to be. The South Broadway homeowner lives near the area known as Pelton’s Pointe in the Village of Lake Orion. For the past few years, the property and nearby houses have been for sale. At one time, Larry Paine, restaurateur, wanted to […]
Doing almost two years of research has paid off for the Village of Lake Orion. Village council members decided Nov. 28 to change health insurance coverage from Blue Cross/Blue Shield to the Municipal Employee Retirement System Plan 6. According to LO Finance Director Jan Adams, the village will save in excess of $75,000 annually. Adams […]
So busy and so little time. I’m printing this from another source so I can go shopping for all the wonderful presents my family has asked for. You think saving for a new flat-panel plasma television or iPod Nano for the holidays is daunting? Be thankful you don’t have to save for the original gifts […]
After 18 years of hanging out in my office letting everyone do my work for me, I’ve decided to leave my job at the end of December. If you notice, I’m not saying retiring. That’s too old sounding, plus the fact I can’t collect social security for another two years. Actually, the man in my […]
Jill Bastian recently asked Lake Orion School Board members to reconsider its election date. This past year Michigan passed an election consolidation law. The law set only four dates that an election could take place in a year. School board members opted to conduct its election in May every year. It previously had taken place […]
You won’t see lunchboxes at Blanche Sims Elementary School filled with peanut butter sandwiches, M & Ms and Ritz Bits with Cheese. It has become a peanut-free zone. School officials have asked parents not to let their children bring any food items that contain peanut products into the school. A first-grader was recently diagnosed as […]
I can’t imagine what my childhood would have been like if I couldn’t have taken a peanut butter sandwich to school every day. The sandwich, combined with a banana, gave me a lunch that was far superior to any unknown food floating around in liquid in the hot lunch line. Currently, three elementary schools in […]
For over 35 years, Lake Orion’s DPW Director John Ranville has been performing side jobs in the village. Now village council members are telling him to curtail some of his construction work. LO Village Manager JoAnn Van Tassel told the council on Nov. 24, it’s a conflict of interest for Ranville to personally contract to […]
In these days of declining revenues for school districts, LO School District Athletic Director Bill Reiss thinks he has found a way to earn some extra money. He told school board members in November he would like to start charging elementary students a $2 admission fee to high school sporting events. “Through the winter this […]