Voters going to the polls on Aug. 8 will determine who will continue on to the Nov. General Election as the Republican candidate in races for District 3 Oakland County Commissioner, 46th District State Representative, and US Congress Representatives for the 8th and 9th Districts. The race for 12th District State Senator is uncontested in […]
Incumbents ruled in Lake Orion during Tuesday’s Primary Election–except for the race for Oakland County Commissioner for District 3, with Orion Township Trustee Michael Gingell upsetting incumbent Eric Wilson. Gingell won the Republican nomination to face Democrat Kate Zielinski of Rochester in the Nov. General Election, with 1,818 votes, or 56.65 percent. Wilson finished with […]
The Oakland County Crash Reconstruction Unit is investigating a vehicle/motorcycle crash that killed Edward Allan Majesky of Orion Township on Saturday afternoon. Majesky, 49, was operating a 2006 Harley Davidson motorcycle, eastbound on Oakwood Road, east of the state park in Brandon Township, when he was struck head-on by a 2005 Kia, at about 5:14 […]
Last week I got an email from Lake Orion resident Carl Johnson, 20, a self-proclaimed ‘armchair space history buff,? who was excited to share with me that NASA is in the final stages of picking a name for its program to return American astronauts to the surface of the moon by 2018…and it’s Project Orion! […]
A proposal to offer valet parking in downtown Lake Orion will not go forward until Ted Schmidt deposits $500 with the Village of Lake Orion–although the Village Council would like him to do more research with downtown merchants first. Schmidt, who listed his address in the proposal as Clarkston Road, was first before the council […]
A man who appears to be homeless has been charged with prowling, and resisting and obstructing police, after he threw a lawn mower at a Lake Orion Police Department officer during a chase on Aug. 11. Jonathan Mark Pence, 23, who listed the address of the former Domino’s Pizza on Lapeer Road on his Michigan […]
Downtown Lake Orion will be going to the dogs starting Aug. 24. That’s when the Dog Days of August downtown sidewalk sales (with participating village merchants) and village-wide garage sales kick-off, running through Aug. 25. On Aug. 25, T&C Federal Credit Union is sponsoring Music and a Movie in the parking lot of Children’s Park, […]
The Commander Cody Band will take the stage at the Canterbury Castle Banquet Center at Olde World Canterbury Village in Orion Township on Aug. 24, headlining a party that is not to be missed. Commander Cody, which formed in Ann Arbor in 1968, is led by the Commander himself, George Frayne, on piano and vocals, […]
Lake Orion Police Chief Jerry Narsh is asking citizens who may have come in contact with a man posing as a police officer to contact the department, after a woman was stopped on Heights Road last week. The 68-year-old woman, who was visiting from out-of-town, was leaving the Kroger store on Lapeer Road on Aug. […]
Several residents, along with members of the Lake Orion Lake Association (LOLA), say weeds in Lake Orion are the worst this summer that they’ve been in 20 years. In the interest of cleaning up the lake, residents spoke with the Lake Orion Village Council on Aug. 14, about possibly establishing a Special Assessment District (SAD) […]