With a growing accountant practice, Norm McKee said he will no longer be able to devote the time necessary to helm the Lake Orion High School Varsity Skiing program. McKee, who owns McKee & Company PC, located on Baldwin Road across from Friendship Park, has coached the boys and girls varsity ski teams for eight […]
A man who ran from the scene of an apartment fire on Casemer has been charged with intentionally setting that fire, according to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department. The suspect, Joseph Paul Tubbs, 29, was taken into custody a few hours after the fire, which occurred around 1:30 a.m. on July 13. The Orion Township […]
The Road Commission for Oakland County was out checking drains along M-24 on Monday, after a Saturday rainstorm caused the northbound lanes to flood. Craig Bryson, public information officer for the RCOC, said drains were not believed to be the cause of the flooding on July 16, but the RCOC was going to check them […]
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a crash that occurred at Rochester and Snell Roads in Oakland Township, after a driver ran a stop sign on July 14. According to the OCSD Crash Reconstruction Unit, assisting deputies from the Oakland Township substation investigating the crash, one of the vehicles was southbound on Rochester Road, […]
They said it was long, exhausting and ‘a lot of hard work,? Bryan and Laurie Valko said they wouldn’t hesitate to work as extras again, after filming scenes for the film, ‘The Island.? The movie, staring Ewan McGregor (who played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the ‘Star Wars? prequels) and Scarlett Johansson (who stared in the ‘Lost […]
A 48-year-old Ortonville woman told the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department that her husband attacked her, and tried to stab her with a knife, at Civic Center Park on July 20. According to the OCSD report, the woman and her husband, a 48-year-old Lapeer man whom she is in the process of divorcing, both work at […]
It doesn’t have any clients for it yet, but the Bingham Farms-based development company Burton-Katzman hopes to get a rezoning for several acres of property near Silverbell and Giddings Roads. The land, located near the GM Orion Assembly Plant on the northwest corner of Silverbell and Giddings, is currently zoned in three different classifications; part […]
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) has detected methane gas migrating from areas of the former Sanicem Landfill, located on South Lapeer Road in Orion Township. The MDEQ held a public information meeting at Orion Township Hall on Joslyn Road on July 27. The purpose of the meeting was to provide residents and business […]
Construction has already begun on one lot, but residents near Dollar Bay and Shady Oaks Drive in Orion Township are hoping township officials will step in and enforce an ordinance that they say applies to the sale of two lots there that are non-conforming. However, Orion Township Supervisor Jerry Dywasuk said the matter has been […]
The pews of historic Union Church may soon be filled again, once the Orion Historical Society finishes an interior renovation of the 1854-erected structure. Listed on the National Registry of Historic Buildings, the church is located at Broadway and Church Street in the Village of Lake Orion, but is owned by Orion Township. The Orion […]