Starting July 23, diners will have another option in Orion Township as Ruby Tuesday opens in the former World of Floors location on Lapeer Road. Construction on the restaurant began in the building about 60 days ago, according to managing partner Tony Lankford. Lankford is a 1992 Lake Orion High School graduate and a current […]
The long-awaited construction on the Orion Veterans Memorial is finally underway at the site on Lapeer and Odanah. Orion War Memorial spokesperson Dr. Joseph Mastromatteo said Joe Guinn of Guinn Construction Company has volunteered to do construction on the site, and is presently working on creating sidewalks on M-24 and Odanah. Guinn is also putting […]
Orion Township might soon take advantage of help from some winged friends in preventing West Nile Virus. The Orion Township Board of Trustees voted on July 21 to forward a request to allocate $1,000 of the West Nile Virus prevention funds for bat houses to the West Nile Virus Committee. The committee is to consider […]
The Lake Orion Nursing Center will hold its first blood drive on Aug. 8, and human resources manager Tiffany Wilson hopes enough people will show up to help stem a national blood shortage. “(The American Red Cross) is on a national blood emergency,” she said. “I would like this to be a success…Our goal is […]
After 14-year-old Steven Crowder was killed last June when a car struck the bicycle he was riding on Heights Road, one of his teachers at Scripps Middle School turned to music to work through his grief. The result was “The Comet,” a song former Scripps teacher Carl Zoolkoski wrote in memory of Crowder. Zoolkoski taught […]
Orion Township will provide up to $1,000 to purchase materials to construct bat houses for township properties, although not everyone on the board of trustees thinks the idea will ‘fly’ with residents. The board voted on Aug. 4 to approve the recommendations of the West Nile Virus Committee, who recommended that the township provide funds […]
After voting down two other candidates, the Orion Township trustees was finally able to agree on William Wilsher at their Aug. 4 meeting as the new trustee to fill the vacancy left by Eric Wilson. Wilson resigned from the board to take over as Oakland County Commissioner for Orion and Oakland Townships. He replaced Larry […]
After assisting in the rescue effort at the World Trade Center on 9/11, New York City bridge painter and high-angle specialist Patrick O’Kane called upon his friend Randy Goodman to help him find a solution for helping people to escape from tall building fires. The result was LifeCender, a multi-story escape harness device that allows […]
When the Griffin family took over the former Allen Funeral Home on Flint Street in 1973, there was a barn behind the house, no parking lot and the casket selection room was located down the street in the Allen Furniture Store. Tom Griffin of Sparks-Griffin said that set-up was not unusual for the times, when […]
There’s a good chance you might catch Lake Orion runner Clint Verran in the next Olympic games. Verran, 28, is preparing to run his second marathon of the year in Paris, France, Aug. 22-30. The marathon is one of the events at the World Championship Track and Field contest. “It’s the world’s biggest track and […]