In the fall of 2005, a different kind of early education school opened in Lake Orion. At the time, A School for the Mind and Body occupied 3,500 square feet at its 936 S. Baldwin Road location. That first fall, there were 30 students and only one other staff member in addition to the school’s […]
A year and a day after losing two of their sons in an automobile accident, Cliff and Vicki Schrauger were presented with the keys to their new Lake Orion home in a ceremony on Tuesday (Sept. 30). ‘Today, this comes to completion,? said Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson. Patterson took an interest in the […]
After much time spent ironing out the details, the Lake Orion Village Council approved the process for evaluating Village Manager Paul Zelenak at their Sept. 22 meeting. The process, involving a form drafted by previous councilmembers, would assess Zelenak’s first six months as manager. The council hired him in Feb. 2008 after ousting previous Manager […]
There doesn’t seem to be enough time in the day for Lake Orion High 12th-grader Samantha Kaufman. ‘I get home at 5 p.m. from cross-country practice, take the dog for a walk, then it’s homework for two hours, and any other extra time, I either work on art projects or read. Or just keep doing […]
With televisions beaming images of violence daily to children’from the simulated sort in video games to news broadcasts from overseas’it sometimes seems impossible to teach the value of peace. But for the past two years, Lake Orion elementary students have participated in an art program that channels their creative energy to combat violence. The result, […]
When Lori Bryan found a 1940s telephone table at a garage sale, she saw beyond the spilled candle wax and the hideous green paint job. Cleaned, sanded, re-painted and adorned with flowers, it now stands amid other rehabbed pieces of furniture in the middle of Chic Antiques, her downtown Lake Orion shop which opened early […]
Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain made a surprise visit to Lake Orion’s General Motors assembly plant Wednesday morning. With Wall Street awash in bailouts and only a little more than a month until the election in which Michigan will be a hotly contested state, the prepared statements he delivered to workers focused on the economy. […]
Siobhan Kelly was under surveillance by the Lake Orion Police Department when she set her downtown apartment ablaze Friday (Sept. 19), Police Chief Jerry Narsh said. No one was injured, but the fire did cause considerable smoke and water damage to three apartments and two businesses below. Kelly was quickly detained after starting the fire […]
If he thought he could cover his tracks by not wearing shoes, Keyon Tolbert was wrong. The Oakland County Sheriff Office’s (OCSO) K-9 unit still sniffed out the location of the shoeless Lake Orion man who was subsequently found to have warrants out for his arrest, as well as a bag of marijuana. Tolbert, 20, […]
Some workplaces can be vicious, but Jamie Rustowicz greets the bears, bobcats, and foxes that populate hers with an enthusiastic smile each day. The stuffed wildlife on display at the Moose Tree Nature Preserve, where Rustowicz recently assumed duties as head naturalist, aren’t the only recipients of her energy for all things wild. She also […]