The lazy days of summer will be put on hold for nearly 40 students from metro Detroit who comprise the cast of Project DayDream’s Les Miserables School Edition. The show, which features Gabrielle Phillips of Lake Orion, will be performed June 26 thru June 29 at Birmingham Groves High School inside the Little Theatre. Phillips, […]
Keeping the monster away Reader Barb VonKniper responded to the plight of little four-year-old Sean Rush — his nighttime sleeping dilemma. Monsters were keeping the lad up. The lad was keeping his parents up. (So, really it was Sean’s parents? plight/dilemma.) I wrote about Monster spraying the home with Sean to keep the darkness at […]
The sun smiled on this year’s Art in the Village last weekend in Depot Park. The park was filled with people perusing the work of 75 artists, enjoying cider, donuts, and other treats, and shopping in the antiques tent and silent auction. The annual September event supports Clarkston Community Historical Society.
My Habitat Clarkston is all set to start helping a local family build their own house, but first they need some property. “We thought it would be easy to find property, maybe for rehabilitation, with all the foreclosures in the area ,” said Pastor Gregory Henneman of Clarkston Community Church. “But nothing yet.” The community […]
For the third straight summer, the Lake Orion fireworks show will be shot entirely from barges on the water. Two years ago, a barge broke loose from its anchorage, forcing a lengthy delay. Last year, Police Chief Jerry Narsh said the show was hard to see from several spots on shore. Details on this year’s […]
This year, 2005, pay particularly close attention to your elected officials? taxing actions. I mean on all levels: village, city, township, county, state and national. Many are saying they’ve cut spending to the bone, that services are going to have to be cut, more layoffs are imminent, tsunami is hitting Michigan followed by the end […]
Revision to Section 3.01 Definitions Add the following definition Wireless Communication Facilities. Shall mean and include all structures and accessory facilities relating to the use of the radio frequency spectrum for the purpose of transmitting or receiving radio signals. This may include, but shall not be limited to, radio towers, television towers, telephone devices and […]
From left are Friends of the Independence Township Senior Center members Jean Pachuta, Mary Lou Schell, Don Kayko, friends President Lois Seddon, Vice President Carolyn Morrison, Joe Figa, Independence Township Clerk Barbara Pallotta, Secretary and Treasurer Lee Kuczmanski, Ken Elwert, director of Parks, Recreation and Seniors Division, Barbara Rollin, Senior Adult Activiity Center coordinator, and […]
The annual Lake Orion Lions Club Jubilee will hit the downtown streets next week. And when vendors arrive, they should find those streets in the best shape of the year. The village’s water main contractor, C&P Construction Co., Inc, completed the last of their new water main tie-ins last week. This week, they hope to […]
The township board heard a presentation from residents in the Sunset Hills subdivision last week regarding maintenance of private roads in their neighborhood. Sunset Hills was platted back in the 1920s and a neighborhood association was formed in the 1970s. That association continues today and their funding is entirely voluntary. ‘The condition and viability of […]