Due to the lack of a building, the Palazzo di Bocce doesn’t have a liquor license yet, but would like to have its request amended to include a Specially Designated Merchant (SDM) license to be able to sell Italian wine for takeout. Owner Anthony Battaglia, who is constructing the restaurant/bocce club on Lapeer Road, told […]
Halloween is just around the corner, and members of the Union Church Governing Board seem to feel more “tricked” than “treated” by the Orion Township Board of Trustees. Governing board president Burke Cueny told the board of trustees on Oct. 20 that interior restoration of Union Church, located in the Village of Lake Orion but […]
Some students from Lake Orion Schools recently learned first hand what it means to get more than you give by helping local Special Olympians prepare for a bowling competition on Oct. 25. Students from Lake Orion High School, Scripps and Oakview Middle Schools and some of the local elementary schools, to name a few, have […]
Their hopes for a state title run were dashed early, but the Lake Orion High School Varsity Boys Soccer Team is still a winner in the eyes of their head coach, Erick Pfeifer. “My standards are completely different from anything they had seen before,” said Pfeifer, who took over this season as the varsity coach. […]
The Lake Orion High School Boys and Girls Cross Country Teams wrapped up their 2003 seasons at the state competition in Brooklyn, Michigan last weekend. The Dragons’ Lindsey Gaudard was the only top 10 finisher in the state cross country finals, held on Nov. 1. Gaudard finished sixth individually in the girls’ competition, with a […]
A 75-year-old Lake Orion man was transported to Crittenton Hospital in Rochester after he was carjacked in the parking lot of the Bald Mountain Regional Medical Center on Lapeer Road. The man was not seriously injured in the incident, but was complaining of shortness of breath after the attack, which took place in the parking […]
Orion Township resident Charles Ring, Jr. was just 18 years old when he was drafted for the United States Marine Corps in 1943, but he said he never had to think twice about his decision to go into the service. “I got a deferral so I could finish high school, then I went right in,” […]
Connie Waldon started working for the United States Post Office after a friend of her mother’s told her it was the “best job she’d ever had.” After 36 years, Waldon said she can’t disagree. “I started at the post office in Pontiac right after high school,” said Waldon, who retired from her job at the […]
Dr. Rocco Ciccone, who operates a dental practice in Lake Orion, had never been to New York City before 9/11, but he now makes the trip nearly annually as a forensic dentist who helped to identify victims at the World Trade Center site. Ciccone was on hand for the first anniversary of the tragedy, when […]
For American soldiers serving overseas in Iraq and other countries this holiday season, it won’t take much to make their Christmas. For many it is as simple as a pair of black cotton socks. Socks are one of the many items on the soldier “wish list” promoted by the “Adopt-a-Platoon” program, being coordinated locally by […]