A 10-2 mercy of Avondale last Saturday ensured the Dragon hockey team of first place in the OAA II. The team began its week with a 8-2 victory over Berkley, giving them an outside chance to clinch should Troy lose to Bloomfield (in a game that took place around the same time as the LO/Avondale […]
When Lake Orion Wrestling Coach Doug Kline sat down before the season started and looked at his projected lineup, he probably grinned. His team, which started the season ranked sixth in the state, had a chance to surprise many people, even with such a high ranking from the get-go. However, injuries quickly depleted the squad, […]
A pair of top-10 finishes by Emily Loerch helped the Lake Orion girls? ski squad to a third place finish at regionals last Thursday, qualifying the team for the state competition next week. ‘It’s a great feeling,? Coach Derek Delzer said of the team making it to states. ‘They’ve had a great season. We did […]
A $55 million tax abatement requested by General Motors was granted on Tuesday night by the Orion Township Board of Trustees. The board approved GM’s request for a three-year construction period (to begin on Dec. 31, 2007) and a 12-year period to follow in which the abatement would take effect. The request from GM is […]
Waldon’s Marty Green thought she was surprised when she was honored with the Lake Orion Community School’s Middle School Teacher of the Year award at a staff meeting last week. Then she realized her family had come to help her celebrate. ‘I’m shocked,? Green said. ‘That brought me to tears. To have all my family […]
Parking in downtown Lake Orion continues to be a hot-button topic since the return of the Sagebrush Cantina. As a result, the Downtown Development Authority had around 30 business owners visit their two-session open-forum discussion on parking last Thursday at their 51 N. Broadway office. ‘This is a democratic process,? DDA Director Lois Golden said, […]
General Motors will come before the Orion Township Board of Trustees next week, but what they’ll be presenting remains a bit of a mystery. Their presentation is part of an 8 p.m. public hearing set for the board’s Feb. 20 regular meeting. The board agreed to put the issue on that agenda at their Feb. […]
When his story was told in The Lake Orion Review back on Jan. 10, Karl Eberle, owner of the recently closed Karl’s Place, had no idea what the response would be. In just a couple of weeks time, he was flooded with calls. ‘A lot of people were just checking on me, and some called […]
Ted Schmidt, an entreprenuer who proposed a valet parking idea to the Village Council last summer, was the subject of an investigation that aired on WDIV Local 4 earlier this month. The ‘hidden camera investigation,? done by reporter Kevin Dietz went into Schmidt’s Hitech Metro Hearing business in Sterling Heights. The story said that Schmidt’s […]
Four Oakland County residents were badly injured, but survived a plane crash after their single-engine aircraft went nose-first into the ground roughly four miles from the Pellston Regional Airport in the northern lower peninsula. The group was travelling back to the area after a trip to Houghton. ‘They’re going to make it, and that’s a […]