Boy, the bi-weekly Local Leadership Love Fest isn’t going to like my column this week. I’m actually praising two governments, which is going to leave them with nothing to complain and snipe about behind my back. Let’s start with the Oxford Township Board. Kudos to them for dividing their police millage request into two parts […]
Time to kick off fall with Orion Township Parks and Recreations Barn Daze at Friendship Park on Oct. 11 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Activities for the entire family include a petting farm, pony rides, hay wagon rides, horseshoe throwing, children’s games, family photos, antique tractors, live demonstrations, Civil War living history and encampment, chili challenge, […]
Dig out your old green and white sweatshirt. Lake Orion High School’s Homecoming Parade this Friday in the Village of Lake Orion. It’s scheduled to begin at 5 and conclude by 5:30 p.m. The parade route starts at the Ehman Center on Elizabeth Street, travels southbound on Broadway to Front, continues westbound along Front Street […]
The Ortonville Fireworks are scheduled for dusk July 3 at the Brandon Middle School, 609 Ortonville Road. A rain date is dusk on July 4. Brandon Fire Chief David Kwapis recommends arriving early, since parking at Brandon High School will be limited this year. ‘In the past the high school softball and soccer fields were […]
Plenty of questions and few answers, coupled with working almost a year without a contract, prompted Goodrich teachers, family members and even a dog or two, to take action early last week. Troy Scott, UniServ director for the Michigan Education Association representing the Goodrich Education Association, said an informational picket on Monday night, just minutes […]
Drivers on village streets will probably not see any bright yellow lines any time soon. Lake Orion Village Council members on Sept. 22 were hesitant to approve any contract for striping work. “It seems like it should be done in the spring. It doesn’t make sense (to do it now),” council president Bill Siver said. […]
Lake Orion High School student Matt Zitzmann was visiting his grandmother at a senior assisted living facility in Fraser when he came up with an idea that has changed the lives of area senior citizens forever. Zitzmann, a senior, recently implemented a service learning project where he restores and rebuilds old computers for use in […]
Martha Proper, along with 15 other local seniors, is a member of the Mountain Echo Dulcimer Band. Proper said the central instrument of the band, the mountain dulcimer, is a teardrop-shaped, four-stringed instrument from the Appalachian mountain region. Among the other instruments in the group are harmonicas, an autoharp, and a set of bells. ‘The […]
For the past 28 years, chances are if you learned to play a musical instrument while attending Brandon Schools, you could thank Roy Johnson. ‘I had the students play what I think I can get away with in regards to difficulty,? said Johnson, who announced his retirement from Brandon Schools in April. ‘In my eyes, […]
The first 911 system in the village’s dispatch center was installed in 1985. At that time, Lake Orion paid an annual maintenance service agreement to Ameritech based on half of the cost of the agreement. Oakland County Information Technology paid the other half. According to LO Police Chief Jerry Narsh, the fee was paid up […]