Orion Township resident Todd McCoy said he often fears for his life when entering and exiting his vehicle at his home along Heights Road. “To get my kids out of the car and grab a bag of groceries, I have maybe three feet and I’m standing in the street,” he told the board of trustees […]
Residents in the area of Indianwood and Fernhurst Roads were at the Orion Township Board of Trustees meeting on Nov. 17, pleading with the board to work with developer James Faycurry and avoid a possible annexation of Dutton Road property to Auburn Hills. Faycurry has been working for the past four years to develop condos […]
“Diamond Dave” Schurman has been in the jewelry business since he was 12 years old, and his Lake Orion store of the same name will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year. Schurman opened the first Diamond Dave’s location in the former Keatington Village, now Canterbury Village, on Joslyn Road in 1978 when he was just […]
Union Church Governing Board President Burke Cueny hopes with volunteer help that the first phase of the restoration of Union Church will be complete in a few months time. “We’re trying to get things done in the shell (phase I), so we can get a certificate of occupancy,” he explained to the Orion Township Board […]
For the staff of Waldon Family Medicine on Baldwin Road, the brightest part of the holidays isn’t the gifts they received, it’s the ones they give away to some of their patients. Dr. Cynthia Glasson came up with the idea to hold a Christmas party for some of their patients in need three years ago, […]
There are a lot of new faces on the roster of this year’s Lake Orion High School Boys Varsity Basketball Team, and head coach Jim Manzo hopes inexperience won’t hold his team back this season. The Dragons graduated seven seniors from last year’s squad, which went 4-16 in OAA II before losing their first district […]
The Lake Orion High School Varsity Volleyball Team has a new coach this season, but his name is anything but new to the Lake Orion Volleyball Program. Mike Hatch served as the school’s varsity coach until 1991, coaching varsity and junior varsity volleyball for a combined 15 years at LOHS. He’s been an assistant coach […]
Fire investigators from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department are blaming careless smoking as the cause of a mobile home fire that took the life of an Orion Township woman on Dec. 5. The Orion Township Fire Department and OCSD responded to the fire at a mobile home on Mockingbird, located in the Orion Lakes Mobile […]
Two property owners in the Hi Hill Subdivision wanting an exception to a resolution passed by the Orion Township Board of Trustees requiring all residents there to hook up to the public water system or pay a $8,100 fee will have to wait a bit longer for a decision. The board voted to postpone a […]
A 35-year-old Lake Orion man remains in William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak after his 1998 Ford Ranger pick-up truck struck a tree on Scripps Road on Dec. 7. According to Oakland County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Thomas Poulin of the Crash Reconstruction Unit, the man, Sean Patrick Theunick was driving westbound on Scripps about 7:20 […]