Work should begin in mid-August on a remodeling of the Lake Orion Community Schools Administration Building on Lapeer Street, located in the Village of Lake Orion. The building will get an interior remodel, including new carpeting and different colored walls, a new conference room and storage space, and work done in the meeting room to […]
Ted Schmidt of Lake Orion said he was searching for a parking spot in downtown Lake Orion one day when he came up with the idea for his latest business venture. Schmidt approached the Lake Orion Village Council on July 10 to request that they allow him to operate a fee-based valet parking service in […]
Summer is prime movie season. On any given weekend there have been at least two movies I’ve wanted to see. And since I love going to the movies, I love summer! The only thing I don’t love are the ticket prices. Ouch. So far my favorite movie of the summer is Superman Returns. Even if […]
A proposal to offer a valet parking service in downtown Lake Orion should be back on the Village Council’s next agenda, but numerous downtown businesses are hoping the idea will not go forward. Lloyd Coe, owner of Ed’s Broadway Gifts and Costume, presented signed petitions to the council at their July 24 meeting, stating that […]
The Lake Orion Boat Club hosted their 11th annual Rib-Off competition on July 22, with 10 cooks competing in categories of presentation, tenderness and taste. This year’s winner, cook Anthony Savage of Lombardo’s in Oxford, had his name inscribed on the annual trophy, and this year also received a trophy of his own to take […]
A year-and-a-half process has paid off for the Pee Wee Patch Child Development Center in Lake Orion, as the center was recently awarded National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) accreditation. Pee Wee Patch Director Rhonda Meyers said earning accreditation status has been the center’s goals since opening their doors three years ago […]
After a lengthy application process, the Orion Historical Society expects to hear any day now formal word that Lake Orion has been approved to be added to the National Register of Historic Places. The Lake Orion Village Council recently received and filed the final report for the project, completed by the Mannik & Smith Group, […]
Downtown business owners wanting to display portable signs are being given a break by the Lake Orion Village Council–a lower fee, but also a request to make sure those signs are registered with the village. The fee was lowered in response to a request from Lake Orion barber Larry Dennis, who owns a shop on […]
The Lake Orion Village Council heard a rather unusual request at their July 24 meeting–a production company has asked to be allowed to shoot a scene for a movie in East Lawn Cemetery. Jason Hammonds, owner of Open Door Productions, a Lake Orion based film/media company, requested to use the cemetery on Orion Road for […]
This is my first, and hopefully last, column about my cat, Isabelle. I don’t have any real (i.e. human) children to write about, so you’re going to have to read about the only kid I’ve got, my cat. I got her when she was about six weeks old, a little over seven years ago. I […]