Leftover 2003 Community Development Block Grant funds for the planning and the Orion Senior Center will be left alone, as the Orion Township Board voted July 19 not to reprogram the funds to help pay for an accessible path in Friendship Park. The board held a public hearing prior to voting to keep the 2003 […]
Orion Township will expend 2004 Community Development Block Grant funds to five agencies through contracts. The board voted recently to authorize the supervisor to sign contracts with each agency once the appropriate insurance coverage paperwork has been provided. The township will contract with the following agencies: Transportation (North Oakland Transportation Authority-sole source provider), Swim Lessons/Camp […]
The Village of Lake Orion’s Downtown Coordinator, Becky Goodman, recently learned the village was not chosen to receive a Cool Cities Catalyst grant. She said the communities that were chosen were all technically cities and they were of considerable population. ‘The projects that are being funded are truly very ‘cool? projects such as ice rinks, […]
Lake Orion’s King of Kings Lutheran Church, located at 1715 S. Lapeer Road, will celebrate its 40th anniversary this year. The church has a celebration planned for Aug. 14 at the Knights of Columbus Hall on Orion Road. The members recently lost their pastor, Luther Wright, who lost a long battle with cancer. Ted Kerr […]
Representatives of Jack’s Vending company recently spent an afternoon at Green’s Park installing vending machines. Now swimmers and park enthusiasts can enjoy a soda after swimming in Lake Orion at the park off M-24.
My wife and I arrived for our annual visit with family and friends in time to see the fireworks display. We agree with others that it was shorter than past years, but still a good job. We were unable to join in the flare night. We also feel lighting flares should be the same night […]
Few of us ever find that ‘perfect? job, something we love and something we do very well. My perfect job was as a substitute teacher at LOHS. I loved going to work every day. I loved the staff, the curriculum, but most of all, I loved being with the students and I believe that was […]
A couple of editions ago a TRUE AMERICAN wrote in regarding the red, white and GREEN fireworks. He was disappointed about it not being America’s colors. I would like to explain. Blue is a very difficult color to manufacture in fireworks. They have yet to be able to do so. Thus, we have to work […]
The July 14 issue of the LO Review contained a half page article complete with pictures entitled, ‘Good Shepherd sister/brother achieve high MEAP,CAT scores?. I agree that the Luedtke children had commendable scores on their tests, but I feel that the article was lacking balance for several reasons. Many LOCS students have scores equal to […]
A manager of the Bellacino’s Restaurant on Lapeer Road spent last Friday night in jail but will not face felonious assault charges after an incident in the restaurant’s parking lot on Friday afternoon. According to an Oakland County Sheriff’s Department report, two individuals went to the restaurant to return a pizza delivery bag and asked […]