Summertime in Orion

Anthony Bullock and Derek Coe, students at Lake Orion High School, doing a little tubing on Lake Orion and enjoying their summer before football gets started up. Photo submitted by Julie Siwek. *** Do you have a picture that captures summertime in Lake Orion? Send it to us at lakeorionreview@sbcglobal.net.

Springfield board replaces Waumegah Lake rep

The Springfield Township Board of Trustees was not required to make a new appointment to the Waumegah Lake Improvement Board, but on Feb. 10 they voted to replace long-time township representative Lou Kirby with local resident Mike Trout. Because Waumegah Lake overlaps the Springfield-Independence border, the new state law adding a second municipality representative does […]

One last blast?

Maryanne Routhton, 6 (right), and sister Rebecca Routhton, 8, lended a hand with shoveling on Monday morning after the snowstorm on Sunday. See more photos in this week’s Lake Orion Review.

Pregnant voter welcomes boy

Longtime Oxford resident Angela (Forte) Ball’s vote didn’t succeed in putting her candidate, Republican Mitt Romney, in the White House, but she succeeded in bringing a brand new life into the world. Last week, the Leader reported on how a very-pregnant Ball voted in the Nov. 6 general election despite the fact she was having […]

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, We (The Mardlins) would like the community to know that there are families living in this neighborhood. Children play and people live. We should not be subjected to a late night drive-thru because that’s the only buyer the property owner can get. The township was fair in our minds. They have the right […]

Why go to outer space?

By Matt Phillips Special to The Review The question of ‘Why do we need to go to space?? has been the undertone attached to NASA from its inception in 1958 and continues to linger today. In the 1960s, when President Kennedy challenged the nation to ‘landing a man on the moon and returning him safely […]

Condo/office project faces opposition

A proposed condo and office building project could end up causing some problems on Lake Orion’s Village Council. Councilman Tom Albert, who lives close to the area being developed, along with his neighbor Mark Brancheau, has hired a lawyer to protest the Planned Unit Development. President Bill Siver on Feb. 14 questioned village attorney Gary […]

Remember vets, but don’t glorify war

‘I was part of the forgotten generation that nobody liked. When I came back, I was spit on. We were called baby-killers. It was terrible.? That’s what Oxford resident Jim (Mouse) Muys remembers about coming back to the United States after serving in the Vietnam War. Back then, there were no ticker-tape parades or elaborate […]

Keiser’s Role: A greater hope beyond the president

‘If we do justice at the polls to our own conscience and sense of responsibility, then alone can we do justice to the nation we love; then alone can we make our beloved land a symbol and shrine of hope and faith for all free men.? ? Adlai E. Stevenson The votes have been tallied […]

Soccer here to stay, thanks to OOSL organizers from ?70s

Editor’s note: Earlier this summer, The Review presented a story on the LOBOS Soccer Club’s 30th anniversary. That organization was actually an offshoot of the Orion Oxford Soccer League and formed in the 1980s. A story on the OOSL, which is in its 30th year, follows? *** Soccer is easily the most popular sport in […]