A damaged tree on village property will be removed thanks to the pleas of a homeowner. Tom McCormick, owner of a home at Slater/Church, told Lake Orion Village Council members on Dec. 8 the tree was damaged during the late winter ice storm. ?(If it fell) it could hit wires and could destroy half of […]
Walkers hustling and bustling, police standing at intersections directing traffic, steam pouring out of manholes, buses full of people traveling down the streets — New York you say? No believe it or not, I’m describing Detroit last Saturday afternoon. A group of women and I (along with granddaughter Ryan) made a trip to Detroit to […]
A 28-year-old Burton man literally hit a ‘brick wall? while attempting to evade a Lake Orion Police officer. The incident took place on Dec. 18 at 11:30 p.m. Officer Brian Martinez stopped the man at the Broadway ‘Y? at the entrance to the downtown area for driving too fast. Before Martinez could approach the vehicle, […]
Here’s my wish list for 2004. l. I hope Michigan State’s basketball team gets a point guard. I’m tired of hearing that excuse as to why it can’t win a basketball game. 2. I hope it never gets below zero this winter so my pipes won’t freeze. 3. I wish members of the school board […]
New Year’s Eve wasn’t a happy occasion for an Addison Township man. The 41-year-old ended up in the hospital after being seriously hurt by exploding fireworks close to 10 p.m. on Dec. 3. The incident took place on Park Island. According to Lake Orion Police Lieutenant Harold Rossman, officers were dispatched to a home where […]
Man-about-Oxford, Jim Sherman Sr. says the reason he doesn’t spend more time at Third Wave in Oxford is because of the restaurant’s resistance to separate checks. He would hang out at Third Wave more because he loves to give my daughter Molly a hard time (she works there). Jim doesn’t like that Molly calls him […]
A Laird man was no winner in a Publishers Clearinghouse Sweepstakes. By the end of December he had spent $13,000 in an effort to collect monies he was told he had won, but never saw. According to an Oakland County Sheriff’s report, the man was notified by phone on Dec. 1 at 9:30 a.m. that […]
A North Shore homeowner will have to wait until spring to have a drainage problem fixed. Back in December, Keith Campbell approached the Lake Orion Village Council and said water from storms were running on to his property, going down his front steps and towards his house. Campbell felt the problem was a result of […]
I’ve been going down hill for at least 30 years. According to a study done by the University of Michigan, memory and mental energy first starts to decline in people in their 20s. The good news for those people is it’s not really noticeable — at least not until the loss starts affecting everyday activities. […]
For the second year in a row,, officials of the Main Street program have given the Village of Lake Orion high marks for its efforts to revitalize the downtown area. Representatives from Main Street Oakland County and the National Trust for Historic Preservation were in town last week to evaluate the village’s progress in 2003. […]