The Orion Township Board of Trustees has requested the sign ordinance committee bring a report back to the Nov. 7 meeting, for a possible first reading. The committee has been working for the past six months to modify the township’s current sign ordinance, which may local business owners have told the board is unfair. ‘Any […]
The Department of Homeland Security recently announced that the State of Michigan will receive $854,809 in grants to assist local fire departments and medical emergency organizations, including a $180,000 grant for the Orion Township Fire Department. Orion’s grant was the the highest amount received by any fire department in the state. The funds are part […]
Orion Township’s engineering firm, Orchard, Hiltz and McCliment, has agreed to contribute $3,000 to help offset $32,978 in costs to rehabilitate the Clarkston Road safety path. At their Oct. 3 meeting, the township board of trustees voted to proceed with work to modify the path and rehabilitate it, by adjusting a cross slope between Merritt […]
Whether you are trying to find a long-lost relative, or doing research for a local history book, iDigOrion can be utilized as a resource for you. The site, operated through the Orion Township Library and maintained by their LAN/Web coordinator Judi Rudisill, has archived issues of The Lake Orion Review available for viewing online in […]
The Lake Orion varsity girls basketball team suffered their first defeat since joining the OAA Division III this year, falling to Stoney Creek on Oct. 6, 48-45. Trisha Dalrymple led the Dragons with 14 points in the game, followed by Chelsea Richards with 11. Also scoring for Lake Orion were Cara Slossan with eight points, […]
The Lake Orion boys cross country team claimed second place in the Oakland County Meet on Oct. 8, as the girls team took 11th. The boys finished with 142 points, just behind Bloomfield Hills Lahser, who finished first with 91. The girls team finished with 345, while first place Clarkston had 54. For the Dragon […]
The Lake Orion girls swimming and diving team defeated Bloomfield Hills Andover on Oct. 6, 107-79. Winning events for the Dragons was the 200 medley relay team, with a time of 2:01.79, and the 200 freestyle relay team, at 1:49.81. Also winning events were Emily Loerch in the 200 free (2:05.46), Perri Mitchell in the […]
Ada Stone said she is just trying to operate her own business, providing quality child care for her clients as the State of Michigan has licensed her to do. However, some of Stone’s neighbors in the Long Lake Woods Subdivision off Indian Lake Road say her home-based day care is causing traffic problems for the […]
It appears a serial flasher who has been favoring businesses on Rochester Road has moved north. The man exposed himself to a girl in Orion Township on Oct. 13. The Oakland County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a report the man exposed himself to a four-year-old girl in the Kmart at Lapeer and Clarkston. He’s described […]
It isn’t often kids get the opportunity to get up close and personal with a bat, much less watch it get its tummy kissed. But that’s exactly what the preschoolers at Kids Corner in Lake Orion got to do, when Dale Smart of the Organization for Bat Conservation (OBC) at the Cranbrook Institute of Science […]