Well, Lake Orion, I don’t how to break it to you, so I’ll do it quick, like ripping off a Band-Aid. I’m leaving. I know, I know. I feel the same way, but there’s no reason for weeping. It was fun while it lasted, wasn’t it? My year in town has been great, it’s just […]
The Paint Creek Country Club’s golf course was recently home to some diminutive drivers and pint-sized pitchers and putters. The club’s junior golf program wrapped up their season with a scramble of about 80 youngsters ages 7-17. The junior golf program started May 30 and ran until August 28. There were three clinics covering golf […]
Lake Orion’s 29-25 loss to Hudsonville in their first game of the season was a tale of a devastating fourth quarter. ‘We played a good football game for three quarters, then just really handed them the ballgame,? said Coach Chris Bell. It brought back an eerie reminder of last season, when the football squad lost […]
Last year’s dream season ended in the state finals at Ford Field for the Lake Orion football team. While they lost to Rockford, the squad is still a force to be reckoned with in 2009. The team plays their first game on Friday against Hudsonville at Eastern Michigan’s Rynearson Stadium. Many of the players who […]
General Motors is not adding another shift at the Orion Assembly Plant, but they are increasing production–at least until November 25, when the plant will stop making Chevy Malibus and Pontiac G6s in order to retool for an unnamed small car. According to GM spokesperson Becki Akers-Hopson, reports in last week’s Oakland Press were misleading. […]
The lawsuit saga between a Lake Orion family and the school district is finally over. In the end, Lake Orion Community Schools may have to reimburse the parents of autistic three-year-old Taylor Barrett $4,500. According to Jeff Butler, the district’s attorney, what LOCS will pay falls far short of the estimated $35,000 the Barretts were […]
There is nothing left of a bridge along the Polly Ann Trail besides its charred remains. The bridge, north of Clarkston Road, off of Allendale, has been blocked off to trail users since a fire over the weekend. Officials are investigating the bridge fire as an arson. According to Orion Township Fire Chief Jeff Key, […]
Fourteen-year-old Frankie Girling is a pitcher for his Lake Orion Youth Baseball team. But the most exciting pitch he’s ever thrown wasn’t in Orion, it was at Comerica Park in downtown Detroit. It’s every child’s dream to throw out the first pitch at a Detroit Tigers? game, and on August 3, that dream came true […]
Don’t know what to do with that old cell phone? How about helping a soldier serving overseas call home to his friends and families. The Lake Orion American Legion Post 233 recently began participating in the Cell Phones for Soldiers program. According to Butch Lanway, the Legion member heading up the project, in just one […]
I promise I’m not writing this column out of any bias. It’s true the Sandbar is a frequent Review staff hangout post-deadline. Carol always serves up exactly what we need after pulling together the paper each week. Instead, I’m writing this column imploring village officials, notably the Board of Zoning Appeals, to reconsider their decision […]