By Meg Peters Review Staff Writer Just like humans who more than often crave warm and filling foods in the colder months, so too do their winged predecessors: the birds. Especially now during the wintertime, local birds may rely solely on area residents? continued supply of birdfeed and fresh water for survival. In many cases, […]
Lake Orion grapplers returned with a trophy from a weekend tournament held at Clinton High School. Dragon wrestlers finished second in the tournament, out of more than 15 teams, which included many state-ranked wrestlers. Logan Shadaia, at 215 pounds, and Vincent Ritter, at 285 pounds, won their weight classes. Dalton Meyers,’Dominic Foesman and’Noah Smith all’placed […]
Lake Orion riparian John Strand wonders if next year’s Fourth of July fireworks are in jeopardy, now that the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office has announced a plan to pull its boats from area lakes. Some of his neighbors, Strand said, worry the Sheriff’s better-than-nothing plan for jump boats’which will respond to emergency situations on county […]
Downtown Development Authority (DDA) Director Lois Golden has been ‘removed? from her position, effectively immediately. Seven DDA boardmembers made the unanimous decision at their Sept. 8 regular meeting. The board’s vote came at the expiration of Golden’s three-month opportunity to improve on her performance evaluation, according to president Gene Carlson. ?[The board] really felt there […]
The staff of The Lake Orion Review would like to apologize for a photo on Page 20 of the January 7 edition that depicted inappropriate symbols and profanity on a picture of graffiti on a bridge at Goldengate Road and Pleasant Ridge Road. An editing error led to the photo being published. The graffiti is […]
With its long, cold nights, winter is the perfect season to curl up with a good book. Forty members of Immanuel Congregational United Church of Christ (1 Hovey St.) in Oxford Village are doing just that with the original good book. On Jan. 1, they began reading a little bit of the Bible each day […]
With ‘a community and a nation divided,? Lake Orion Community Schools? Superintendent Ken Gutman decided the choice over whether students should watch President Barack Obama’s address Sept. 8 ‘or not’wasn’t his to make. Gutman announced the district’s decision in an email to parents. ‘Ultimately we left it in the hands of parents to determine whether […]
Oakland County deputies arrived the mangled remnants of a two-car accident on M-24, just south of Scripps Road, Monday night. A 19-year-old male driver was driving southbound around 8:20 p.m. when he attempted to pass a second vehicle in the right lane. As the driver completed the pass, he clipped the front end of the […]
The newly-seated Oxford School Board got right to work on superintendent search discussions at the Jan. 7 regular board meeting. ‘Today, we’re just going to talk (about) how we want to go about that process,? said President Jim Reis. ‘Then we’ll decide which direction we want to go.? Trustee Joyce Brasington said she’d like to […]
Community leaders had the chance to get the latest scoop in the Weiming Education Group partnership with Oxford Schools and get specifics of location as well as a chance to meet Weiming’s new North American CEO at the Jan. 9 Community Leaders Breakfast held at the Oxford Schools Administration Building. The project After being unable […]