Oakland County Sheriff’s Department accident investigators said a 25-year-old Lake Orion man who was injured when his vehicle rolled over on Baldwin Road on Dec. 28 had been drinking prior to the accident. The OCSD and Orion Fire Rescue responded to the accident about 9:13 p.m. on Baldwin, north of Eaton Gate. The driver, Benjamin […]
Representatives of Detroit Edison are doing their best to assure residents of Orion Township that the power outages that have recently become a normal occurrence should soon be a thing of the past. DTE Regional Manager Michael Palchesko was invited to the Jan. 5 Orion Township Board meeting by township supervisor Jerry Dywasuk. Dywasuk felt […]
Some students at Scripps Middle School recently took a trip back in time. The theatre and choir departments of Scripps joined forces on Dec. 11 to put on the first annual Madrigal Dinner, an evening full of the pageantry and ceremonial pomp of merrie Olde England. The 15th-17th century provided the time period for the […]
Winter storm conditions made driving difficult in Lake Orion on Sunday evening, as a 49-year-old Rochester Street man rolled his vehicle on snow-covered M-24. The Oakland County Sheriff’s Department responded to the accident on Jan. 4, after Mark Raymond Swiecicki lost control of his 1995 Chevy while driving northbound on Lapeer Road near Scripps. Swiecicki […]
Dr. Christine Saad’s face will probably be familiar to a lot of Lake Orion residents, even if her new dental practice at 1202 S. Lapeer Road isn’t. Saad opened her own practice earlier this fall after practicing dentistry for two and a half years at a different Lake Orion location, sharing office space with another […]
Children using the pediatric gym at the Crittenton Hospital Outpatient Physical Therapy Center in Rochester have their own jungle to play in, compliments of Lake Orion artist Lynn Jensen Button. Button, who grew up in Oxford and graduated from Oxford High School in 1989, was recently commissioned to design a mural for the gym at […]
The Orion Senior Center’s new activities coordinator is new to the Lake Orion area, while the center’s new program coordinator has been an area resident for four years. Michelle Williams, a Highland resident, was hired as the center’s activities coordinator, while Lake Orion resident Mary Ann Emick is the new program coordinator. Both positions are […]
Kathy McMinn thought she was just attending a holiday-themed assembly at Paint Creek Elementary School in December, but instead she was surprised to learn she had been named the Lake Orion Community Schools Elementary School Teacher of the Year. ‘I couldn’t be more surprised,? McMinn said, as her family joined her on stage for the […]
Oakland Township resident Dorothy Sedlock and Romeo resident Joyce Kilpatrick were equally surprised when they learned they had been named the Orion Art Center’s (OAC) Patron and Artist of the Year, respectively, for 2003. Both women have a history with the OAC, and both still teach classes there today. They will receive commendations during the […]
When she moved to Michigan from Texas at the age of 16, Jill Verros said one of her first memories is attending a youth group camp in Lake Orion. ‘I became very attached to the area, and I knew I would settle here one day,? she said. Although she was living in Shelby at the […]