Lisa’s Letters

Things just aren’t the way they used to be, and that sounds especially sad coming from me, as I’m not yet even 30 years old. I remember getting my driver’s license, when it wasn’t unusual to find gasoline for $1 a gallon or less. My father refused on principle to pay more than that, and […]

Library, schools could share ballot

Lake Orion Schools and the Orion Township Public Library could share an election ballot in 2007, as the library is hoping to bring a bond issue to voters, in order to expand the library’s current facility on Joslyn Road. Superintendent Chris Lehman announced the possibility at the school board’s April 26 meeting. ?(The library) is […]

Mother says Children’s Park ducks are hazardous to kids

They might be cute, but the ducks that reside along the Paint Creek in downtown Lake Orion’s Children’s Park are getting a bad reputation, at least from one mother. The Lake Orion Village Council received a letter from a mother who recently visited the park on Broadway Street with her four-year-old daughter. At the council’s […]

LO middle schools receive honors

Lake Orion Community Schools has two reasons to celebrate in the coming weeks: Waldon Middle School has been named a Michigan Blue Ribbon School, while Oakview Middle School has been deemed a ‘School to Watch.? Waldon will host a Blue Ribbon ceremony on June 1, and Principal Heidi Kast said the application process for the […]

‘Stomping? out hunger

If you were traveling in the area of Joslyn and Baldwin Roads in Orion Township on Sunday afternoon, you might be wondering what had so many walkers taking to the safety paths. The answer is more than just warm temperatures and sunny, blue skies: The 24th Annual CROP Walk, sponsored by Church World Service, was […]

Moose Tree talks progress

Oakland County Commissioner Eric Wilson said a talk went well May 8 between Oakland County Parks and Lake Orion Schools, about the county possibly becoming involved with the Moose Tree Nature Preserve. Wilson sat in on the discussion, and said he was pleased with how things were progressing. ‘It was very positive,? he said of […]

Lisa’s Letters

I recently received this email forward and thought I would pass it along (in a condensed version). Do you feel like this guy? Tax his land, tax his wage, Tax his bed in which he lays. Tax his tractor, tax his mule, Teach him taxes are the rule. Tax his cow, tax his goat, Tax […]

A trip around the world

From Namibia, to Belgium, to the Maldives, students at Oakview Middle School recently traveled all over the world, without ever having to leave their classrooms. One sixth grade class, and both seventh grade classes at the school on Lake George Road, recently took part in Oakview’s first-ever International Travel Fair. The project stemmed from a […]

The Brigolins: A family of scholars

It isn’t often that parents attend three of their children’s college graduations within two weeks of each other. However, that’s exactly how Mark and Belinda Brigolin of Lake Orion spent the weekends of May 6 and May 14, as their daughters Heather, 27, and Tiffany 23, and son Marc Anthony, 25, all received their degrees. […]

LOPD hosting seminar for licensed liquor establishments

The Lake Orion Police Department, in conjunction with agents from the Michigan Liquor Control Commission (LCC), will present a training seminar in June for all Village of Lake Orion licensed liquor establishment owners. The LOPD’s alcohol enforcement activities at one downtown restaurant, Whiskey’s Steakhouse, formerly Muy Loco, were called into question recently by owner Bob […]

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