Now that money for preliminary engineering has been secured, the next hurdle will be actually coming up with money for construction costs for the $25 million widening of Baldwin Road. Orion Township Supervisor Jerry Dywasuk announced recently that $500,000 in federal funds had been secured by U.S. Representative Mike Rogers for preliminary engineering for the […]
The fifth-grade students in Paula Schubert’s class at Carpenter Elementary School in Lake Orion have been learning about the US Constitution and their constitutional rights, and they recently had a visitor who helped shed some light on how those things apply to real life situations. Oakland County prosecuting attorney Cindy Brown visited the class on […]
Coming off a championship year, the Lake Orion boys swimming and diving team will look to make a place for themselves in their new division, OAA I, this season. ‘We are returning five guys who went to the state meet, and they are probably our five best swimmers,? said coach Paul Fairman. Returning are senior […]
The Lake Orion varsity wrestling squad went to a 7-2 record on Dec. 8, defeating Orchard St. Mary’s, 62-18, and falling to the Oxford Wildcats, 37-33. Against St. Mary’s, Orion’s Brandon Tobin had a pin in the 103-pound match, in 2:39. In the 119-match, A.J. Pratt had a pin in 1:14. Jake Varilek had a […]
They don’t really turn into vampires, but a visiting bat from the Organization for Bat Conservation at Cranbrook did bring along a few of his fellow nocturnal friends for a trip to Carpenter Elementary School on Nov. 22. Dawn Vezina of Cranbrook travels to area schools with a program called Animal Adaptations, which teaches about […]
The fight to stop a land swap for Bald Mountain property on M-24 could soon be drawing to a close for the Orion Township Board of Trustees. Attorney John Staran of Beier Howlett, hired by the board to represent the township in the land swap issue, gave on Dec. 4 an update on where the […]
Orion Township Board members concurred with clerk Jill Bastian in November, when they agreed to adopt a policy containing a procedure for dealing with requests for township services and township expenditure authorization. Bastian said that in light of the recent proposal from Dutton Partners, which she said had been unofficially discussed at the township and […]
It’s never too early to start saving, and Community Plus Savings Bank is reinforcing that philosophy with their Youth Savers program in Lake Orion Schools. The school-based program sponsored by Community Plus Savings is run by adult volunteers with student tellers and computer operators in the schools. Savings day for students is one day a […]
BY LISA VALENTINE Lake Orion Review Staff Writer With seven players returning from last year’s varsity volleyball team that tied for the OAA II championship, Lake Orion head coach Mike Hatch believes his Dragons have an outstanding season before them. ‘Their skills have come so far in the past year,? he said. ‘Will we run […]
Nearly 10,000 people in the Orion area were left without power the day before Thanksgiving, as Detroit Edison said a line connecting two substations went down about 10 a.m. on Nov. 24. ‘We lost a tie line, which is a main power line feeding to two separate substations,? said DTE spokesman John Austerberry. ‘The two […]