Lake Orion High School and Learning Options High School administrators are currently developing a program that could house Learning Options students at LOHS. Currently, Learning Options operates out of the Community Education Resource Center (CERC), located near LOHS on Scripps Road. The LO School Board is considering the proposal to move the alternative high school […]
Although they have yet to approve a final agreement, the Lake Orion Village Council appears to be leaning towards allowing a developer use of property owned by the Village at Pelton’s Point on Lake Orion. The Council voted on March 27 to have Village Attorney Gary Dovre draft a non-exclusive license agreement with Orion Pointe […]
As the Lake Orion School Board debates how to balance next year’s budget, President Leeann Bartley has also asked for committees to be formed to consider a number of ‘large ticket items? for the future. At the last March school board meeting, she presented fellow board members with a memo outlining eight areas of concern. […]
Bob Eschrich, owner of the former Bonzai Bob’s restaurant on Front Street in the downtown Lake Orion, says officers from the Lake Orion Police Department are targeting his business and driving customers away. Eschrich, who opened the restaurant first as Bonzai Bob’s in 2001, later changing to serving Mexican fare under the name Muy Loco, […]
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become […]
Lake Orion Schools could be laying off about 20 staff members if the current budget is given final approval by the school board. Among those who received pink slips after the board’s April 5 meeting, where members voted to approve the proposed staff reductions, was Paint Creek Elementary School Administrative Extern Kathy McMinn. McMinn has […]
A man asking for directions at Walgreen’s on Park Boulevard was actually the responsible intoxicated driver in an accident that destroyed the Lake Orion Nursing Center’s sign, according to the Lake Orion Police Department. LO Police Chief Jerry Narsh said the 24-year-old Casco, MI man and his girlfriend, a 42-year-old Casco woman, were traveling northbound […]
In the April 5, 2006 issue of The Lake Orion Review, we ran an article about some issues downtown business owner Bob Eschrich said he has been having with the Lake Orion Police Department. Eschrich told the Lake Orion Village Council that he believes he’s being targeted for excessive regulation by the police, who he […]
Students at Orion Oaks Elementary School celebrated March Reading Month in part by gathering and donating nearly 1,000 books to LeBaron Academy in Pontiac, a K-5 school. The project was spearheaded by parent Deb Loscher, and her daughters Shanna and Katie. Katie is a fifth-grader at Orion Oaks. Students brought in books all during the […]
The Orion Art Center hosted their Fourth Annual Fashion Show, ‘Hats off to Spring,? on April 1 at the Boulder Pointe Golf Club and Conference Center in Oxford. Over 100 people attended, and proceeds from the $30 tickets will benefit the OAC’s programming, according to OAC Director Reggie Harrison. ‘This could eventually move towards being […]