By Jim Newell Review Editor Frozen fairways, concrete tee boxes, rough, snow-covered putting greens, frozen golfers: not a typical day on golf course. The water hazards were typical, though. Golfers who could not wait for Spring hit the links of Lake Orion on Saturday for the Lake Orion Sunrise Rotary Club’s Annual Ice Cup Golf […]
By Megan Kelley Review Writer During their meeting on Jan. 26, the Lake Orion Community Schools Board of Education was joined by district educators at the elementary level to discuss their Social Emotional Learning (SEL) programming. Carpenter Elementary Principal Adam Weldon and elementary teachers from around the district; Kate Dimeo (Webber Elementary), Melissa Kilgore (Carpenter […]
Fundraisers net more than $9K for victims of boarding house fire By Jim Newell Review Editor On Jan. 14, residents of a boarding house at 35 N. Broadway Street in downtown Lake Orion watched from the street as firefighters battled the blaze ripping through their home. Many fled the house with only the clothes they […]
By Megan Kelley Review Writer The Lake Orion Community Schools Board of Education met last Wednesday for their first meeting of the 2022 calendar year where they held their annual reorganization meeting. As is done every year, the full board openly cast their votes for board officer positions (president, vice president, treasurer and secretary). This […]
By Jim Newell Review Editor Groups and individuals in Lake Orion are rallying to support the former tenants of a boarding house at 35 N. Broadway St. in downtown Lake Orion who lost their home to a fire on Jan. 14. Now, Lake Orion American Legion Post 233 is hosting a fundraiser on Saturday with […]
By Jim Newell Review Editor General Motors Co. announced on Tuesday that the auto manufacturer will invest more that $7 billion in four Michigan manufacturing sites, including $4 billion in the GM Orion plant. Orion Assembly will become the second U.S. plant building Chevrolet Silverado EV and electric GMC Sierra and GM will invest $4 […]
By Megan Kelley Review Writer As winter continues and we enter the home stretch of the season, both the Lake Orion and Oxford Downtown Development Authorities have joined together to host the Stronger Together Ice Festival in both downtowns throughout the entire month of February. The dual town event is making it’s return to the […]
By Becky Andrus Review Contributor Orion Neighborhood Television (ONTV) will host its 12th annual Food Drive in February, benefiting the Oxford/Orion FISH Food Pantry. Over the past 11 years, the ONTV food drives have collected more than 45,000 pounds of food during the LIVE telethons. For a second year, the drive will be virtual due […]
By Jim Newell Review Editor Smoke billowed from the house in great dark clouds, rising into the bright afternoon sky, hanging ominously above the businesses and homes in downtown Lake Orion as firefighters fought to keep the fire from spreading. On Friday, a fire destroyed a nine-room 128-year-old house on Broadway Street. The home is […]
Members of the Lake Orion High School Business Professionals of America headed to the Regional Leadership Conference on Jan. 7 where several students took home awards. Of the 15 events, six LOHS students received 17 awards and earned the opportunity to compete at the Business Professionals of America State Leadership Conference in March Student awards […]