It won’t be in 2004, but if Jordan Desilets has his way about it, you’ll see him running with the USA track team in the next summer Olympic Games. Desilets, 23, got his start as a distance runner for the Lake Orion High School cross country team, and the LOHS graduate currently runs for the […]
Brandon Twp.- When a quarter-size mass was detected in Marg Bovan’s annual mammogram in April 2006, she and her doctors weren’t overly concerned. The now 53-year-old had gone through biopsies twice before, with benign results. Her doctor and surgeon were confident it was scar tissue. But it wasn’t. Bovan was diagnosed with a very aggressive […]
Dear Editor: I attended (and was one of many to help organize) the Ortonville DDA/Main Street ‘Extraordinary Volunteer Night,? March 6. What an outstanding turnout for the event and privilege to appreciate the more than 100 volunteers. The reason I started with the Ortonville DDA/Main Street from its inception, the fall of 2005, was as […]
A 19-year-old Ash Drive man returned to his apartment at Sycamore Creek off Baldwin Road on Aug. 4 to find his pet pit bull missing. According to an Oakland County Sheriff’s Department report, the man had come home and found his dog missing from his apartment. A screen that had covered the living room window […]
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Department reported the deployment of a taser to subdue a man on Heights Road on Aug. 3. An OCSD deputy was on patrol when he observed a subject asleep on a tractor at the corner of Heights and Fairledge. According to the report, the deputy said the man was intoxicated and […]
Dear Editor: On behalf of the Goodrich Lions Club, I would like to thank your newspaper for the excellent article you included in the March 8 edition of The Citizen regarding our activities. Your staff writer, Rebecca Kelley, was very insightful and thorough in her discussion with me, and it showed in the details in […]
Dear Editor: It is time to look forward to the future of recreation programs in our community. The BGO is gone; there is no longer a ‘G? for Groveland or an ‘O? for Ortonville. (The Citizen, March 15, ‘Brandon Supervisor responds to Parks & Rec fee changes,? pages 24-25.) I was a member of the […]
It’s never too early in Michigan to think about snow. Lake Orion Village Council members recently OK’d their annual winter maintenance agreement with the Road Commission for Oakland County. The agreement calls for the road commission to pay the village to take care of snow and ice control on Bellevue from Heights north to the […]
Four companies responded to a request for bids by the Village of Lake Orion to take down trees and do some tree trimming. Although G&G Tree Service was low bidder at $2,450, village council members on July 26 awarded the contract to Lonnie’s Tree Service for $2,950. Council members picked Lonnie’s because the company said […]
Dear editor: Finally, a voice of reason in the newspaper (‘Let’s conduct ourselves with constructive actions,? The Citizen, March 15, page 7). Thank you, Mr.Wiley for your excellent letter. Know that many parents in this school district agree with your sentiments, myself included. While we may not always agree with every decision the school board […]