Dear editor, I have worked for the Lake Orion School district for 31 years. I have certainly seen the good times and the bad. I am familiar with the fact that when we have budget cuts we will have parents complaining about how we do it (rightfully so). Depending on what we are cutting we […]
A more faint-of-heart coach might have reacted differently to a football game decided in the last minute of play. “As long as it’s a ‘W,’ I don’t care,” Kurt Richardson said. The Clarkston varsity coach was liberal in his praise for his squad after a 35-28 “pre-district” victory over Walled Lake Central on Friday, Oct. […]
Before I get too far into this thing, let me state the obvious: Yes, I know Halloween was last week. That said . . . We live in an old home. An old home that is next door to an old hospital. An old home that used to be a medical center, and prior to […]
Dear editor, Love INC of North would like to thank the Bill & Karen Olson Family for hosting the ‘Chao for Charity? event on Friday, April 30 at Lake Orion United Methodist Church. The Olson Family is represented by at least 5 of our local churches and are a true representative of being Christ’s hands […]
Miranda Wilber, a seventh-grader at Oxford Middle School, has earned a summer scholarship to the Cranbrook Institute of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Miranda has always had an intense passion for Art, especially in the areas of Fashion and Interior Design. The Academy of Art judges appreciated Miranda’s insights in her writing, the recommendations from […]
Getting a haircut recently I overheard some of Gayle Schlicht’s deer hunting plans. They have a cabin w-a-a-y up north. It sounded like one huge room that sleeps 16 with a wood burning stove in the middle. They’ll cut next year’s firewood this season, as they’ve done for years. Of the 14 scheduled this season […]
I didn’t get to test drive the New Beetle Convertible GLS in the summer — which would have been my first choice to drive any convertible vehicle. I did have it for the second seven days of October. It was perfect time for tooling around with the top down and taking in the area’s fall […]
I think, now, even those who stand faithfully on one side of the fence or the other for school district issues, the administration’s performance, the board of education’s leadership and even The Lake Orion Review’s reporting, can agree on one thing: we’re all watching the school district to see what will happen next. With that […]
On Friday, a worker (shown waving at the top) from the Hartland-based B&M Tower Technologies, Inc. climbed the 195-foot radio/cell tower behind Addison Fire Station #2 in Lakeville. He was up there doing an upgrade to the AT&T system, so customers can get stronger coverage and improved service when it comes to wireless phone and […]
ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS The Independence Township Board of Appeals will meet Wednesday, November 19, 2003 at 7:30 pm at the Independence Township Library, 6495 Clarkston Road, Clarkston, MI 48346 to hear the following cases: Case #03-0111 Christopher Bruce, Petitioner APPLICANT REQUESTS REAR YARD SETBACK VARIANCE OF 14′ TO CONSTRUCT 2 STORY ADDITION PLUS REAR […]