Photo gallery at the bottom of the post The Lake Orion High School girls varsity soccer team defeated the Flushing Raiders 2-0 in the district semifinal game on Tuesday. The Dragons will now play the Oxford Wildcats for the MHSAA District 5 championship at 7 p.m. Thursday at Lake Orion High School. The Dragons previously […]
By Jim Newell Review Editor After the past two years when events were uncertain due to the pandemic, all previous Memorial Day activities are back in full swing this year. That includes the Memorial Day Parade, Memorial Day Run, Wreath Ceremony and Memorial Service at the Orion Veterans Memorial. “We are going forward with the […]
By Jim Newell Review Editor All things change. It’s the one inevitability in life, and when you embrace change you can make it meaningful. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” The Greek philosopher and teacher Socrates made that supposition more […]
Pine Knob has a new photo exhibit between the east and west entrances that showcases concert photos of the first 49 summers at Pine Knob. . Photo by Matt Mackinder. By Matt Mackinder Clarkston News Editor David Cassidy opened Pine Knob Music Theatre with a concert on June 25, 1972. Now, nearly 50 years later, […]
By Carol Azizian Review Contributor Three St. Joseph School eighth graders won awards in the 2021-22 America & Me Essay Contest, sponsored by Farm Bureau Insurance. First place winner was Harrison Joyce, who wrote an essay about his grandfather, Jon Joyce, “an incredible man who lived life to the fullest.” Harrison wrote that his grandpa […]
By Megan Kelley Review Writer Lake Orion’s Downtown Development Authority Board of Directors met May 10 for their regularly scheduled meeting and discussed what is consistently rated the top issue in the village: parking. As plans to build a parking deck in the downtown move forward, one of the items on the docket for the […]
By Emily Casewell There’s a joke that goes, “How many Michigan State University students does it take to change a light bulb?” The answer? “40,001. One of them to change the bulb and 40,000 of them to throw a party for it.” As an MSU grad I could take offense to this joke, but if […]
Lights, smoke and ash cascade down over a pontoon during the Fourth of July fireworks show on Lake Orion. Photo: Jim Newell. By Jim Newell Review Editor It’s a fireworks extravaganza celebrating the Red, White & Blue and a Lake Orion tradition, but this year the Lake Orion Fireworks Foundation needs a little community support […]
DDA board rejects village request for public docks By Megan Kelley Review Writer The Downtown Development Authority Board reviewed two agenda items regarding the purchase of docks and equipment at their meeting on May 11. The first was a request from both the Orion Township Fire Department and the Lake Orion Police Department for the […]
By Megan Kelley Review Writer In an extension of the continued discussion regarding their attorney, Lake Orion’s Downtown Development Authority Board of Directors voted May 10 to hire their backup attorney, Robert Davis of the firm Davis Burkett Savage Listman LLC, as the board’s primary attorney. The board hired Davis as their backup attorney at […]