Darwin McClary to take the helm on, or after, Nov. 28 By Megan Kelley Staff Writer LAKE ORION — Lake Orion will soon have a new village manager after the village council voted on Monday to approve the employment application with Darwin McClary. McClary is not new to the village. He previously was Lake Orion’s […]
Sentencing to follow Feb. 9 hearing By Don Rush It’s been nearly a year since carnage broke out in the halls of Oxford High School, leaving four students dead, six students, one teacher wounded and an entire community scarred. At a regularly scheduled pretrial hearing on Monday, it took Oakland County Circuit Judge Kwame Rowe […]
The North Oakland Community Coalition is holding their annual prescription drug take back day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Oct. 29. Expired or unused medication can be dropped off at either the Lake Orion Police Department, 21 E. Church St., or the Oakland County Sheriff’s Orion Substation in the Orion Township Municipal Complex, […]
The All For Oxford Resiliency Center is offering a workshop series for parents beginning Nov. 1. All services at All for Oxford are free of charge. Below are the descriptions for each session. Nov 1: Is this normal? Sometimes it can feel like we are figuring this out alone. Sometimes it feels like we are […]
The Friends of the Orion Township Library will be hosting its annual Holiday Silent Auction at the Orion Township Public at 825 Joslyn Road, Lake Orion, from Oct. 31 through Nov. 19. Items will be displayed with bid sheets on the tables in the Friends Reading Room off the library lobby throughout the silent auction […]
VFW Auxiliary North Oakland 334 has announced the kick-off for two scholarship contests, the annual Young American Creative Patriotic Art Contest and first 3-Dimensional Patriotic Art Contest. The Young American Creative Patriotic Art Contest is for local students in grades 9-12. Applicants will have the opportunity to compete for $34,000 in national scholarships. Students must […]
Tax abatement process moves forwards after 6-1 vote By Megan Kelley Staff Writer LAKE ORION — The Lake Orion Village Council held their public hearing for the consideration of a Commercial Rehabilitation Exception Certificate for the West Construction project at 55. W. Elizabeth Street, also known as the Ehman Center. The council held a public […]
By Megan Kelley Staff Writer LAKE ORION — It may be the end of the road for residents hoping to get a question on the ballot regarding the current Downtown Development Authority Tax Increment Financing capture. During their meeting on Oct. 10, the Lake Orion Village Council discussed a request from village resident Harry Stephen […]
By Megan Kelley Staff Writer LAKE ORION — The Lake Orion Community Schools Board of Education met Oct. 12 for its regularly scheduled meeting and voted to approve two bid awards to further the district’s continued bond work. First, the board approved the purchase of furniture for the STEM room and Media Center at Stadium […]
By Jim Newell Review Editor LAKE ORION — An elderly Lake Orion woman was returned safely to her family after a bit of amateur sleuthing from two Village of Lake Orion DPW employees. A woman was out walking on North Shore Drive on Friday morning when she spotted an elderly woman wandering on the road […]