Lake Orion is growing in fame thanks to the national focus on the auto industry and sporting events like the Senior Open, but where would Lake Orion be without festivals like Dragon on the Lake? Thankfully, Orion residents won’t have to wonder, as the event is nearly here once again – this time being directed […]
Summer tanning may be easy now with the sun shinning down its beams but in one or two short months, going out to the beach will be a memory. Thanks to the new owners of Coco Tanning, located at 666 S. Lapeer in Lake Orion, sunbathers won’t have to go without the bronze despite the […]
Canterbury Village looks the part and on July 6 and 7 it also sounded like an old English village when the Great Lakes Community Players put on a production of Hamlet for all to watch. The crowds came, laughed, cried and sat in suspense while watching LOHS graduate Tahra Gribbin’s interpretation of the popular Shakespeare […]
Lake Orion will soon play host to the 2012 Senior Open and the celebrities are beginning to roll in. Yet not every one of them is famous for the club in their hands as they are for other talents – in Frank Beckmann’s case, it’s what he does behind a microphone. The WJR talk show […]
The influx of visiting golf enthusiasts will not go unnoticed in Lake Orion – speculation based on last year’s Senior Open put daily numbers in the 40,000 range. And the businesses of the Orion Area Chamber of Commerce (OACC) are ready for the spike. ‘I think the biggest thing is the shear volume of people […]
A couple months back I wrote on why I like winter, particularly over summer. They called me mad! And judging from popular opinion, I’m about to share another dark, stormy secret in that I, truly enjoy and derive happiness from dark, stormy weather. Remember last Tuesday? The sky stayed clear for hours at a time […]
People plan weddings for expansive hill sides, villas, churches, beaches and more, but Justin Filyaw and Nikki Beaudoin decided to take their wedding beyond the shore, to the waters of Lake Orion. Two pontoon boats worth of families and band members later, the two said their vows and became husband and wife and walked down […]
Breaking and entering is a peculiar crime in that it affects the victim not only physically – monetarily – it also strips away the last vestige of safety. Home security. Yet thanks to the work of the Oakland County Sheriffs and their Orion Township Deputies, one less alleged burglar is walking the streets as of […]
There are people who grow up in a community, find a reason to leave and never return. For most of his life, long-time Orion resident William G. Adams, who passed June 24 and was buried June 27, never found that reason. Adams belonged to a receding group from a bygone era of community-oriented people and […]
By Gabriel Ouzounian Review Co-Editor It doesn’t get much bigger for Lake Orion than the annual Dragon on the Lake Festival, but this year a title sponsor is hoping to make it even bigger. The Orion Art Center (OAC) is proud to announce that McLaren Cancer Institute (MCI) will be the title sponsor of the […]