Ten Years Ago June 28, 1995 ~~By a vote of 6-1, the township planning commission recommended denying the rezoning of 92 acres at the Silverbell/M-24 intersection to allow a shopping complex. ~~For two Wednesdays a month, students at LO Middle School will end their day at 12:30 p.m. This will allow time for staff professional […]
Village residents who are considering running for a seat on the Lake Orion Village Council still have time to do so. The deadline for filing petitions was extended by the state from June 21 to July 19. Nominating petitions are available at the village hall on Flint Street. Four council members will be elected on […]
Renee Leggieri has been hired as a new public works clerk for Orion Township. The township board voted June 20 to create the second Clerk I position, which Leggieri now fills, and to eliminate the temporary, part-time clerk position. Leggieri will have a starting pay of $11.18 per hour (40 hours a week, $23,258 annually), […]
Two members of the Orion Township Safety Path Advisory Committee have been reappointed to new terms. Scott Buchholz and Wayne Zimmerman’s terms both expired at the end of April. They have been reappointed, and their new terms expire Dec. 31, 2008. The committee currently has two vacancies.
The Orion Township board, on the recommendation of Oakland County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Bruce Naile, commander of the Orion Substation, has voted to make the OCSD clerk’s position a permanent one. The township has employed Pamela Seipke, from an employment agency, as the clerk typist for the OCSD Orion Substation since 1996. Seipke’s permanent position […]
Due to the July 4th holiday, deadlines for The Lake Orion Review and 0Ad-vertiser have changed. Classified ads and editorial content must be at The Review office no later than noon on July 1. Cancelation of ads must also be done by noon on that Friday. The Review office will be closed on July 4th.
One more public safety tower is coming to the area. Orion Township trustees on June 20 OK’d a site plan and a lease agreement with Oakland County to construct a 256 foot tower on property in the township’s Civic Center Park. A tower in the Village of Lake Orion was put up earlier this spring. […]
In the six years Dr. Craig Younkman spent at the helm of the Lake Orion School District, he saw the student population increase by 1,100 and guided construction of two new buildings and major renovations at other buildings. And his last several years here have been a financial challenge with shrinking financial support from the […]
Developers of a commercial center in Orion Township were denied a chance to establish an Industrial Development District by trustees on June 20. Ashley Capital had wanted the district for its Orion Commerce Center, to be located on Silverbell Road across from the Eagle Valley Landfill. Advantages of an IDD would have been the ability […]
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Department is investigating what appears to be the suicide of a 19-year-old Oxford woman in Friendship Park, located in Orion Township at the corner of Clarkston and Baldwin Roads. According to an OCSD report, deputies were called to the scene on June 26, after the woman’s parents said they found her […]