Orion Township is increasing the number of trails available to residents, has doubled the state equalized value (SEV) in the past eight years, and is an all-around great place to be, according to Orion Township Supervisor Jerry Dywasuk. Dywasuk addressed the Orion Area Chamber of Commerce at their March 3 meeting, to deliver his ‘State […]
The daytime temperatures soared to 95 degrees, but members of a team from Good Shepherd Lutheran Church who recently traveled to Haiti to help build a church said you would never know it from looking at expressions on the workers? faces. ‘The first day we went out at 9 a.m., and by 11, people were […]
The Lake Orion boys swimming and diving team finished fifth at the Division I state finals, held March 11 at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti. The Dragons finished with 133 points, as Ann Arbor Pioneer went on to win their third state title in four years. Individual finishers for the Dragons included Pat Dodge, who […]
The Lake Orion High School varsity wrestling team saw a successful season come to an end on March 10, as their two state finals qualifiers lost their matches at the Palace of Auburn Hills. Dragon wrestlers freshman Jake Varilek, at 125; and senior Gerry Webber, at 152; both competed in the tournament, neither placing in […]
Lake Orion Middle Schools played host for this year’s MAMSE (Michigan Association of Middle School Educators), held March 10-11 at Scripps Middle School. The conference brought over 81 presenters, 700 registrants and many education vendors to the event, which featured keynote speaker Jack Berckemeyer, and numerous sessions such as Book Clubs, Bully Proofing, Water Quality, […]
Plans are underway to try to move a public safety tower for the Oakland County CLEMIS program (Courts and Law Enforcement Management Information System) from a site at Orion Oaks Park on Baldwin Road back to the originally proposed site near Orion Township Hall on Joslyn Road. The township board agreed to proceed with the […]
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Department investigated a 911 call that came from a residence on Aubrey Drive on March 6. A mother called to say her five-month-old son was not breathing. The baby was later pronounced dead at POH Medical Center in Pontiac. According to an OCSD report, a 33-year-old woman called Orion Fire and […]
You might not think that battling a rare form of brain cancer could be what it takes to find your sense of humor, but that is what’s happened to Orion resident Joan Eberle. Joan, the wife of Karl Eberle of Karl’s Place Cafe on Baldwin Road, was diagnosed in January with Glioblastoma Multiforme, a rare […]
Representatives from Detroit Edison said the company has spent a lot of money, and plans to spend even more, in the Orion Township area to improve power reliability since several outages left the township in the dark in 2003. Mike Palchesko, DTE’s regional manager and coordinator for government affairs, told the township board of trustees […]
Jana Staron’s love of the water has led her to a career that only about a dozen women in the United States enjoy: She works as a marine pilot on the Great Lakes. ‘We board all the foreign ships that go on the Great Lakes,? said Staron, a 1992 Lake Orion High School graduate who […]