Orion Township Assessor John Attwell has submitted a 14-page report to the Orion Township Board, regarding property tax exemptions. The report, requested by the board in May, was submitted at the June 19 meeting. It included three pages of responses to questions asked by Clerk Jill Bastian, regarding the various roles people and groups play […]
Campers at the Orion Art Center’s Theatre Arts Camp performed ‘Hollywood Mansion Mystery? on June 23, a play scripted by them during the week-long camp. The play starred all 16 of the campers, who also created their own props and set. The play was directed by Susan Berg, while Dorothy Sedlock served as arts director […]
Since the skin is the body’s largest organ, it’s not surprising that skin cancer is the most common cancer of all. Although melanoma is certainly not the most common type of skin cancer, it’s easily the most deadly. According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), it accounts for only about four percent of skin cancer […]
Slowly but surely, it appears a forensic audit regading the investments policy for Orion Township will eventually take place. The Orion Township Board of Trustees has agreed on a request for proposals (RFP), and a subsequent time to meet and answer questions for possible bidders. But, like many things in the now year- and-a-half long […]
Power lines above a garage kept firefighters at bay, and left a road blocked off deep into the night on June 15. According to Orion Fire Department Chief Jeff Key, firefighters first arrived at the scene of a garage fire at 539 Joslyn Road, just west of Heights Road, around 3:30 p.m. ‘It appears to […]
Every year, Scripps Middle School finds a family to ‘adopt? for the holidays. The requests of the students they seek to help typically involve some type of trendy technology. This year, however, they got a new one: Dental work. The school raised around $1,500 to help one of their own, a Scripps eighth- grader, who […]
The Gonzales and Phillips? families on Georgia Drive are hoping that plans for a Del Taco drive-thru restaurant on Baldwin Road will be thwarted by the Orion Township Planning Commission. ‘The squawk box would literally be in my back yard,? said Judith Gonzales at the June 5 Orion Township Board meeting, when a rezoning request […]
The Lake Orion varsity baseball team bounced back from one three-run home run against University of Detroit Jesuit High School on June 13, in state quarterfinal action in Madison Heights. But they didn’t get a chance to bounce back from the second three-run shot— and won’t get that chance until next season. Cary Piligian’s homer […]
The survey says… ‘yes.? The Older Persons Task Force, consisting of representatives from Addison, Orion and Oxford townships, were charged with looking into the feasiblity of a combined senior center for the three communities, and it now appears they have an answer. Surveys were dropped off at random spots throughout the three townships, over the […]
A June 6 public hearing involving the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality turned ugly at Orion Township Hall, resulting in two MDEQ workers storming out and ending the meeting prematurely. The two MDEQ representatives, from the Land and Water Management Division, were on hand to hear comments from residents, on and around Lake Orion, about […]