Low bidder for the Atwater paving project this year was Peake Contracting of Utica. The company bid $107, 591. Five companies responded to the Village of Lake Orion’s request for bids. Village engineers, Hubbell, Roth & Clark, had estimated the project would cost $120,418. Council members on April 25 decided to add additional curb removal […]
Editor’s Note: What follows is state Rep. Brad Jacobsen’s (R-Oxford) response to a reader’s concerns over the Education Achievement Authority. The EAA has been more successful than failing traditional public schools at teaching their curriculum. Since the EAA was put into place in just 15 schools, 20 percent of students in the district saw their […]
Ten Years Ago May 3, 1995 ~~School officials are proposing to eliminate the junior high and have two middle schools housing sixth, seventh and eighth grades. Ninth graders will move to the high school. ~~Thirty families waited in line all last weekend to register their children in kindergarten at St. Joe’s School. ~~Problems at a […]
Oxford Bank announced last week that its employees have agreed to donate $775 each to two local charities. The recipients are Orion-Oxford FISH and Blessings In A Backpack (Lake Orion and Oxford). The money was raised through Oxford Bank’s ‘Dress Down For Charity? program. It allows Bank employees the opportunity to donate at least $1 […]
The Orion Area Parade Group recently announced the Mark Turpen Scholarship Fund. It was created to honor Mark Turpen, a dedicated member of OAPG and the Lake Orion community for many years. Turpen died in 2004, leaving a legacy of community support and involvement still celebrated by OAPG. He was an attorney, a friend and […]
The Lake Orion Lions Club started its annual White Cane sale on April 29, with proceeds benefiting the many service projects the Lions Club works on every year. Pictured is Ken Ureel working at Broadway and Flint Streets in downtown Lake Orion. Ureel has been a member of the Lions Club for 25 years.
In a recent issue of the Orion Review, there was an article about the Lake Orion School District preparing to install new artificial turf fields at the high school. I am writing to you in support of those new at Lake Orion High School. In the year 2000, there was a school bond election. A […]
Monday, April 25 1:30 p.m.-Station #2 responded to a possible heart attack victim on Brookside. 5:40 p.m.-An accident took place at Clarkston/Lapeer Road. Station #1 responded. 10:05 p.m.-A pole and wires were on fire and sparking at Ajax Corporation on Bald Mountain Road. Station #2 responded. Tuesday, April 26 8:12 a.m.-Station #1 responded to a […]
Tuesday, April 26, breaking and entering at Hole in One Bagel on Baldwin. A shoulder bag was stolen from a vehicle on Eagle Ridge. Embezzlement at Cobasys on Lapeer. Harassment on Miller Road. Suspicious circumstances on Buckhorn. An Interlock System was missing from a vehicle. Credit card fraud on Hampton Woods. Driving with a suspended […]
The Lake Orion varsity baseball team added three victories to their record last week, first defeating Rochester, 6-3, on April 28. Josh Hughes was the winning pitcher, and also had two RBI. Joe Barnes contributed a pair of doubles for the team. Over the weekend, the Dragons hosted the Lake Orion Invitational, winning the first […]