Dear Editor, Clarkston Community Schools Administration has decided to cut five buses and five bus drivers for the 2007-8 school year. It appears that Clarkston schools has plenty of money for administration buildings but runs short when money’s needed for teachers and bus drivers. The administration complex on Clarkston Road east of Main Street is […]
The Orion Township board has confirmed the final ballot language for the fire millage renewal and increase, and police millage renewal and increase, both to be placed on the Aug. 3, 2004 Primary Ballot. If approved, the Orion Township Fire Department would be allowed to levy .9836 of one mill, and also an additional .0137 […]
Orion Township employee Wendy Stiller has been granted an extension of sick and/or personal time donated to her by other township employees. Trustees decided to extend the use of time donated by clerical and DPW union members to Stiller, originally requested because Stiller’s husband was hospitalized for a lengthy illness in January/February 2004. The donated […]
Dear Editor, The pig was not preserved but nature and clean water have a much better chance after 180 guests, sponsors and donors kicked up their heels for the vital cause of land and water preservation at NOHLC’s Wild Night Out Goes Country. The barn doors at the Lazy J in Milford were flung open […]
15 years ago – 1992 ‘Board nixes trailer park addition? Independence Township Board rejected development of two projects on Mann Road, near I-75 and Clintonville Road. Developers wanted to build a 40-acre neighborhood and expand a mobile home park. ‘Proceeds from the past help secure DNR grant? Independence Township officials were assembling funds to renovate […]
Changes to the Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control (SESC) program required by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) will cost Orion Township $9,500 in engineer and attorney fees. The board of trustees approved an expenditure of up to $9,500 in fees in order to have the township engineer and attorney implement the changes to […]
Rick Ludeman has watched both his daughters leave their home in Oxford to serve their country, one currently stationed with the Army in Iraq and the other preparing for a career in the Navy. Ludeman, a 1968 Lake Orion High School graduate, is a Vietnam veteran who followed in his father Russell’s footsteps when he […]
Independence Twp. Fri., Oct 12 A 61-year-old Waterford man pulled over on a traffic violation near Sashabaw Road and Maybee Road was issued an appearance citation when deputies discovered marijuana in his vehicle. Sat., Oct 13 An employee at a drug store on M-15 called police after he witnessed a 16-year-old White Lake female attempt […]
A long series of semi trucks rumbled in and out of Clarkston High School’s parking lot last weekend, interspersed with trailer-toting parents and one busload of musically inclined young people after another. The high school students’several thousand’arrived ready to march, and took to the turf off Flemmings Lake Road dressed in garb ranging from formal […]
So many things to do in the township and not enough money to do them. That’s what taxpayers are now facing with discussions ongoing about the possibility of building a new community center. If only we could turn back time..before the economy took a nose-dive. Voters were saying yes to every millage request asked of […]