Bravo, Dragons. You’re the talk of the town. At dinner tables, diners, taverns and governmental meetings, people can’t help but keep talking about your miraculous season. And justly so. You may not have pulled off a state championship (next year, perhaps?), but you’ve done something just as important–you’ve brought the Lake Orion community together like […]
The Village of Lake Orion, along with 12 other communities in Oakland County, will soon have a few dollars to deal with the fallout from the foreclosure fiasco. The village will receive about $425,000 of the $3.92 billion the Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Neighborhood Stabilization Program is administering to communities across the nation to […]
The fire that tore through an unoccupied Bridge Road house last week left nothing but ashes. ‘The house was totally destroyed,? said Fire Chief Jeff Key. ‘It’s now basically a hole in the ground with a bunch of debris.? There were no reported injuries. At 11:23 p.m. on Nov. 18, the Orion Township Fire Department […]
Like many children, Kim Santini liked drawing animals. Growing up outside Grand Blanc, her father, a hunter, had Brittnay bird-hunting dogs that he kept outside in a kennel. ‘He didn’t have the sentimental attachment that I have,? she said. Now, her own dog roams freely throughout Santini’s Lake Orion village home under the watchful eyes […]
After a long wait, there is finally some hope for Darci Seipke, the 29-year-old Lake Orion woman in need of a kidney transplant. In October, Seipke was accepted into a program at the University of Michigan hospital system where the wait for a kidney is about 2 or 3 years. It won’t come soon enough […]
Water rates were the topic of discussion at the Orion Township Board of Trustees meeting, which was the last for some members. Outgoing board members Jerry Dywasuk, Jill Bastian and John Garlicki, and those who will stick around, Neal Porter, Matthew Gibb, John Steimel and Alice Young, approved a 30-year contract with the Detroit Water […]
Though under new ownership, Nick’s Pizza and Catering still adds a topping of tradition on its pies. ‘We’re bringing back old school pizza in a new way,? said new owner Scott Lindauer who runs the pizza place with his future wife, Angela Wright. Tucked inside Lake Orion’s Complete Party Shoppe, new Nick’s has a slant […]
\No, it’s not just national news. As General Motors desperately seeks federal funds to keep operating until the end of the year, they announced 650 lay offs at their Orion Assembly plant. The employees will be placed on indefinite layoff effective Feb.1, according to Becki Akers-Hopson, the plant’s communications manager. ‘GM has made the difficult […]
Councilman David Churchill resigned from two positions at the Nov. 4 village council meeting. He will no longer be president pro-tem of the council or serve on the Orion Community Cable Communications Commission (OCCC). Councilman Ken Van Portfliet will fill both positions. Churchill recently took a job with AT&T, which is a conflict of interest […]
Anyone who attended the public meeting held at the Ehman-cum-Angel Center on Saturday would agree the first thing that needs to be done at the old schoolhouse is to get the heat fixed. This includes new owner Deborah Moceri, whose warm welcome and enthusiasm wasn’t quite enough to do the trick in the school’s chilly […]