All day, every day kindergarten has gone off without a hitch. Lake Orion Board of Education voted for the switch from all day, alternating day to all day, every day kindergarten (ADED K) January 14. The school year is nearly four weeks in and, according to teachers and Assistant Superintendet Heidi Kast, ADED K is […]
Residents around Orion swear they spotted a dragon on the lake last weekend. But they also saw dragons in the park’chalked on the pavement, twisted from balloons, tattooed on arms and backs, and painted on faces. At one point, a drove of dragons’small rubber ones’was even spotted floating down the creek. The first annual Dragon […]
A fire truck showed up Friday morning at the home of Oxford resident Margaret Payne. It wasn’t there responding to an emergency situation. It was there to pick up Payne for her last day of work. After 20 years with the department, Payne retired from her position as finance manager. ‘It’s really been a great […]
Two environmental activists are waiting to learn whether the illegal protest methods they used in Oxford Township last year will cost them nearly $40,000. 52-3 District Judge Julie Nicholson is expected to issue a written ruling on whether Duncan Tarr and Dylan Ochala-Gorka will be responsible for paying the Wisconsin-based Precision Pipeline $39,226 in restitution […]
Around 5 a.m. Wednesday morning, a 52-year-old male was struck and killed in the parking lot at TKMS Trucking on Glaspie. Preliminary investigation shows that the male, who was an employee, was walking in the parking lot when he was fatally struck by a gravel hauler truck being driven by another employee. Officers from the […]
When Bridget Llewellyn first started writing her children’s book in October 2007, there weren’t any others quite like it ? a fact that she says was her inspiration for One Child, One Planet. ?[The goal is] to get children to appreciate the beauty in nature and preserve it, to get more kids playing outside instead […]
It’s good to be the queen. She gets all the best food. She gets to mate with the strongest males. And if there are rivals for the throne, she gets to kill them, no questions asked. Such is the life of the head of the hive, according to beekeeper Judy Schmaltz, owner of Jodi Bee […]
By Meg Peters Review Staff Writer According to the National Weather Service, ten inches of soft, fluffy snow slowly blanketed Lake Orion last weekend, granting Lake Orion students their first snow day of the year, and then their second. Ironically enough, the first snow day was also Groundhog’s Day, February 2, the day the famed […]
K-9 units from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department searched Oxford last week in the hope of finding the handgun used to shoot 5-year-old Oxford resident Jordayna Barrett on Sept. 9. When deputies arrested Keyon Timmons, the 30-year-old Pontiac man and paroled convicted murderer accused of shooting the Leonard Elementary first-grader, they didn’t find a gun […]
Imagine being able to purchase vacant property in downtown Oxford that’s immediately ready to build on because the site plan’s already done and approved. The Downtown Development Authority is currently in the process of making this developer’s dream a reality. Last week, the DDA board accepted a site plan created for the three parcels it’s […]