Efforts are underway to reactivate the Lake Orion Community Schools Foundation. With the board of education continuing to trim monies from the school district’s budgets, some parents in the community want to help bring extra dollars in to fund special projects. Foundations are typically formed to seek out revenues from charitable sources or to sponsor […]
Don’t you wish you could be a little kid again, at least during the holidays? If you’re a kid, you don’t have to worry about buying appropriate stuff. You just have to be gracious about accepting whatever anyone gives you. (Parents put the pressure on to make sure you say thank you.) At Easter, if […]
It was a nice day in June when Keith Pascoe and his wife Patty visited Children’s Park in the Village of Lake Orion. While pushing his granddaughter on the swings, Keith was dragged to the ground and knocked unconscious by a mentally ill man who had once lived in a home in the village. Chad […]
It was a nice day in June when Keith Pascoe and his wife Patty visited Children’s Park in the Village of Lake Orion. While pushing his granddaughter on the swings, Keith was dragged to the ground and knocked unconscious by a mentally ill man who had once lived in a home in the village. Chad […]
Doing almost two years of research has paid off for the Village of Lake Orion. Village council members decided Nov. 28 to change health insurance coverage from Blue Cross/Blue Shield to the Municipal Employee Retirement System Plan 6. According to LO Finance Director Jan Adams, the village will save in excess of $75,000 annually. Adams […]
Doing almost two years of research has paid off for the Village of Lake Orion. Village council members decided Nov. 28 to change health insurance coverage from Blue Cross/Blue Shield to the Municipal Employee Retirement System Plan 6. According to LO Finance Director Jan Adams, the village will save in excess of $75,000 annually. Adams […]
How vital is it for the village to provide its own inspection services? Although clearly divided over the answer to that question, four of seven Lake Orion councilmen voted yes on Jan. 13 for an ordinance amendment that’s the first step towards taking local building inspections away from the state. The amendment gives the village […]
It hasn’t been built yet, but the chairman of a Paint Creek Trailways Commission committee would like to see the commission manage an extension of the trail through the Village of Lake Orion. The 2,000 foot extension would begin where Paint Creek Trail ends, behind the old LS Foods property off of M-24. The Aspen […]
I’m still reading Entertainment Weekly — a magazine that started out coming to my house free for eight weeks. I think it was about four years ago. I know I mentioned this once before, but it’s worth revisiting because there’s other similar business practices out there. The magazine came into my life while I was […]
Three village councilmen want to know why they aren’t receiving any reports on the activities of Lake Orion’s Downtown Development Authority Board. The question came up at the council meeting on Jan. 27 during a discussion on whether an assistant should be hired for Becky Goodman, Downtown Lake Orion’s Director. Village council president Tom Albert […]