In just a few days, our Lake Orion families will wake up to the familiar sounds of early morning alarm clocks, school buses, and the eager voices of our students as they begin a new school year. While Carpenter Year Round Elementary School has been in session since August 1, the remaining ten Lake Orion […]
After thirty years with a bank and ten years as director of a state quality award program, I retired from the work force in 2003 and have never looked back.? As I approach being a septuagenarian in March of next year, I look back on my work history with fondness, satisfaction, accomplishment, excitement, and maybe […]
Monday, Dec. 13, retail fraud at Speedway Gas Station on Lapeer Road. Reckless driving and assault and battery on Lapeer. A golf club set was stolen from a storage locker on Ash. *** Tuesday, Dec. 14, a vehicle was damaged at Lake Orion High School on Scripps Road. Mail tampering and items missing from a […]
A home on fire at 216 South Broadway in Lake Orion caused major traffic backups during rush hour on Tuesday morning. A section of the road between Flint Street and Atwater was closed for four hours while Orion Township firefighters battled a fire in a vacant home. Lake Orion Police Officer Jim Leach noticed the […]
Oakland man arraigned after firing weapon five times The Oakland County Sheriff’s Department responded to a call of felonious assault on Tamarack Street in Oakland Township on Dec. 18, after a report of a man with a gun inside a home with his girlfriend and her son. According to OCSD Lt. Dale Miller, who was […]
The Orion Township Board voted Dec. 6 to make several appointments for ordinance enforcement and weed control officers. The board appointed Tom Berger, Tim McNaught, Tom Blazak and Jim Seibert as ordinance enforcement officers, for four-year terms through Nov. 20, 2008. The board voted to re-appoint Blazak and Seibert as weed control officers, for two-year […]
Orion Township has released the list of meeting dates and holiday closing dates for township hall for 2005. The township hall, located at 2525 Joslyn Road, will be closed on the following dates for holidays: Dec. 30, 2004; Dec. 31, 2004; Jan. 17, 2005; Feb. 21, 2005; March 25, 2005; May 30, 2005; July 4, […]
By Curtis Pulliam Leader Intern Jason Paslean just walked in the door with his grandma, coming back from a minor league baseball game between the Lansing Lugnuts and Great Lakes Loons. Any 7?-year-old would be tired from the game, wanting to go straight to bed. But not Jason. Wearing a Loons cap, he goes to […]
All newspaper offices of Sherman Publications, including The Lake Orion Review, will be closed on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24) and New Year’s Eve (Dec. 31).
Kudos to Larry Kucemba and the township planning commission for having the vision to put a safety path millage proposal on the August 5 primary ballot. The majority of the township’s population lives along the Drahner Road and Seymor Lake Road corridor, yet the patchwork of safety paths that exist in those areas do not […]