Orion Oaks celebrates 20 years By Jim Newell Review Staff Writer The smiling, sweaty faces, the laughter and joy that comes from running around a grass track – it’s the kind of activity kids love. And teachers and parents, too. Orion Oaks Elementary held its annual Fun Run fundraiser on Thursday, seeking to raise money […]
By Jim Newell Review Staff Writer Lake Orion has named Christopher Corteg as the new coach for the girls varsity soccer team, and Corteg said he’s looking forward to taking the helm once the season starts this spring. Corteg is an experienced coach whose career spans 40 years. He was the girls varsity coach at […]
By Jim Newell Review Staff Writer The Lake Orion school district named Kevin Kopec as the new varsity girls basketball coach at the end of September, and he’s a name that should be familiar to students and residents. Kopec has been at the high school since 2002, teaching social studies and American Government. He’s also […]
By Georgia Thelen Review Staff Writer Carpenter Year Round Elementary School recently had three “Buddy Benches” installed on their playground. Lake Orion High School junior Avery DePauw, from Boy Scout Troop 128, installed the Buddy Benches to complete his Eagle Scout Project. DePauw is a former student of Carpenter Elementary and wanted to use his […]
By Georgia Thelen Review Staff Writer Stephanie Gillam had planned on spending her days as a journalist, but after graduating from a university, she found that life had a different plan for her. “I was working a 40-hour a week job and didn’t know what to do in my spare time, so I started baking. […]
Superintendent lists several options to ‘right-size’ district By Jim Newell Review Staff Writer The Lake Orion school district has known for some time it would need to take steps to cut costs and realign the district to fit the expected student population, and on Sept. 28 the administration executive team recommended closing Webber Elementary as […]
By Georgia Thelen Review Staff Writer The Human Rights Campaign Ordinance the Lake Orion Village Council passed at its Sept. 26 meeting takes effect on Oct. 5. The village meeting and ordinance itself left several questions unanswered for residents, including who will handle these complaints, who will investigate and who will decide if a crime […]
Online survey available for residents’ input By Jim Newell Review Staff Writer The Baldwin Road reconstruction project is still slated to begin next spring, but Orion Township is asking for input to help decide the aesthetics of the project through a community survey. The township hosted an open house on Thursday at the Orion Center, […]
By Jim Newell Review Staff Writer It was a food assembly line, with a dozen volunteers cheerfully unloading pallets of food, slinging around trays of soup cans and other canned goods, and planning menus before stuffing the goods in bags to be shipped out. But each volunteer knew that the labor would benefit local school […]
By Joe St. Henry Review Sports Writer An unlikely hero sparked Lake Orion’s football team last Friday, turning a close game in the rain against Troy Athens into a second-half rout, with the Dragons winning 47-14. Down by six points early in the third quarter, the Red Hawks were pinned deep in their own territory […]