With increased attendance has come more headaches for the Orion Senior Center, at least where available parking is concerned. But those headaches could be cured, if the Orion Township Board of Trustees agrees to pay the cost for additional parking spaces to be constructed. On Feb. 27, the Lake Orion Village Council gave their blessing […]
Last week, the FX channel debuted a new reality show called Black. White. On the show, through the magic of airbrushed makeup, a white family and a black family swap races, and go undercover to find out how the other half lives. The families live under one roof for the duration of the show, and […]
Upsizing water mains, repaving roads and replacing the bridge in Meek’s Park are a few of the projects on the minds of Lake Orion Village Council members. After tabulating the results from their prioritizing of capital improvement projects, overwhelming support was shown for projects involving Flint and Broadway Streets. At the Feb. 13 meeting, council […]
The new head of the Village’s DPW could soon be Michael Barnett of Center Line, pending the results of an interview with Council President Bill Siver and President Pro-Tem Ken Van Portfliet. The council postponed the issue of hiring or not hiring Barnett as new DPW director on Feb. 27, until the next meeting on […]
We are a culture obsessed with celebrities. I am just as guilty as the next person. I have long had an addiction to celebrity ‘tabloids,? (although not the REALLY bad ones, like Star or the National Enquirer) and I can’t seem to stand in line at the grocery store without picking one up. I know […]
With spring rains not too far around the corner, residents on a portion of Lakeview Street in the village are hoping that puddling problems there will soon be resolved. The Lake Orion Village Council voted on Feb. 13 to have village engineers proceed with soil borings to help determine the problem, at a cost of […]
Well, for me too. I love the Detroit Zoo. By now, most everyone has heard that the City of Detroit is considering letting the Detroit Zoo close its doors, after the city council refused to approve an agreement that would turn control over to the Detroit Zoological Society. The Detroit Zoo director said the zoo’s […]
Although she’s been the planning-zoning coordinator for the Village of Lake Orion for less than a year, Sue Ariss isn’t a stranger to the area. Ariss, who was hired by the village last April, lives in Oxford, and previously worked for Oxford Township for four years as an administrative assistant/recording secretary for the planning commission […]
Oakview Middle School students will soon be drinking water treated for arsenic. The Lake Orion School Board approved a bid to place an arsenic treatment system at the school, located on Lake George Road, at the Feb. 8 meeting. Assistant Superintendent of Instruction and Curriculum Dave Beiter said the school is currently operating ‘on bottled […]
Watch out for sweepstakes scam phone calls and letters, like the letter recently received in the mail by Orion residents Charles and Martha Koch. The Kochs have lived in Lake Orion for 30 years, and Charles said the letter they received from a company calling itself ‘LVAAP? out of Las Vegas was the first of […]