The Orion Township Board of Trustees has adopted a resolution encouraging the Road Commission for Oakland County to pursue improvements at the M-24 and Dutton Road intersection, provided Orion Township does not have to give up any of its Tri-Party Funds for the project. ‘This resolution came about in regards to development (on Dutton),? explained […]
Orion Township trustees picked three bidders on Dec. 15 for township vehicles, but will consider a policy for maintaining future vehicles after a resident complained of the condition of the ones up for sale. The board awarded bids for a 1989 Chevrolet van, in the amount of $555; a 1995 Chevrolet Lumina, in the amount […]
After running in the Chicago Marathon in 1999, Scripps Middle School Principal Ken Gutman swore he’d never run another. But when he heard about the Marine Corps Marathon held in Washington, DC, the temptation of running in the nation’s capital was too hard to resist. “(Running through Washington) was one of the highlights,” said Gutman, […]
Phase I of the Orion Village Crossing development at Baldwin and Maybee Roads is underway, bringing “neighborhood shopping” to the area. “Most of the tenancy will be neighborhood in nature,” Roseville developer Tony Ferlito said. “To prevent people from having to go all the way down to I-75.” According to Ferlito, no one has officially […]
Oakland County Sheriff’s Department accident investigators said a 25-year-old Lake Orion man who was injured when his vehicle rolled over on Baldwin Road on Dec. 28 had been drinking prior to the accident. The OCSD and Orion Fire Rescue responded to the accident about 9:13 p.m. on Baldwin, north of Eaton Gate. The driver, Benjamin […]
Representatives of Detroit Edison are doing their best to assure residents of Orion Township that the power outages that have recently become a normal occurrence should soon be a thing of the past. DTE Regional Manager Michael Palchesko was invited to the Jan. 5 Orion Township Board meeting by township supervisor Jerry Dywasuk. Dywasuk felt […]
Some students at Scripps Middle School recently took a trip back in time. The theatre and choir departments of Scripps joined forces on Dec. 11 to put on the first annual Madrigal Dinner, an evening full of the pageantry and ceremonial pomp of merrie Olde England. The 15th-17th century provided the time period for the […]
Winter storm conditions made driving difficult in Lake Orion on Sunday evening, as a 49-year-old Rochester Street man rolled his vehicle on snow-covered M-24. The Oakland County Sheriff’s Department responded to the accident on Jan. 4, after Mark Raymond Swiecicki lost control of his 1995 Chevy while driving northbound on Lapeer Road near Scripps. Swiecicki […]
Dr. Christine Saad’s face will probably be familiar to a lot of Lake Orion residents, even if her new dental practice at 1202 S. Lapeer Road isn’t. Saad opened her own practice earlier this fall after practicing dentistry for two and a half years at a different Lake Orion location, sharing office space with another […]
Children using the pediatric gym at the Crittenton Hospital Outpatient Physical Therapy Center in Rochester have their own jungle to play in, compliments of Lake Orion artist Lynn Jensen Button. Button, who grew up in Oxford and graduated from Oxford High School in 1989, was recently commissioned to design a mural for the gym at […]