BY LISA VALENTINE Lake Orion Review Staff Writer The Orion Township Planning Commission has been given the green light from the board of trustees to go forward with an overlay district for Baldwin Road. The district will be used to create Baldwin/Gingellville design guidelines with new zoning regulations and/or design standards based on recent development […]
BY LISA VALENTINE Lake Orion Review Staff Writer You won’t find much paper blowing in the wind at Blanche Sims Elementary School if the members of the school’s recycling club have anything to say about it. The club formed last month and has seven student members, who meet every Monday after school to collect recycling […]
Head Pastor Mike Harris of The Journey Church on Baldwin Road said the Bible isn’t a boring book, and that the practice of worship doesn’t have to be either. ?’The Journey?? is sort of our mantra,? said Harris. ‘We believe we’re all on a spiritual journey and the Bible holds the key for that…Everyone is […]
A proposed land swap for Bald Mountain property in Orion Township has been put on the back burner for the time being, as the Michigan Department of Natural Resources reevaluates the shape of state land. The swap would trade privately-owned property along Indian Lake for state-owned property that is part of Bald Mountain at M-24 […]
The Village of Lake Orion, and now Orion Township, have come on board to accept a donation of land from the Aspen Group for the Paint Creek Trailways. The Aspen Group is developing the Atwater Commons project, and has offered to donate 1/3 of a mile of limestone fines trail to the Paint Creek Trailways […]
While most kids his age are at least two years away from their first job, Scripps Middle School student Kyle Goodall began making money for himself when he was just eight years old. Goodall, 13, began sculpting balloons when he was three and five years later he developed the character ‘Rainbow the Clown? and began […]
Christ the Redeemer Catholic Church is opening its doors to the community on March 26 for a Star Party. Telescopes will be on hand for people to see the moon and five planets with the naked eye. Organizer John Lines got the idea to give the community a chance to use his telescopes after holding […]
Children at St. Joseph Catholic Church, and their area counterparts, could soon be enjoying competitive youth football in a church-sponsored league. The new football program will be introduced in the fall, and comes as part an effort to satisfy the interests of children at the church on Lapeer Road. ‘I wanted to see what I […]
Wild imaginations are paying off for two fifth-graders at Pine Tree Elementary School. Kylie Hess and Jake Gleason, both 10-year-old students in Jan Peacock’s writing group at Pine Tree, won awards in the Michigan Future Problem Solving program’s Scenario Writing Contest. Hess, the daughter of Richard and Penny Hess, took second place in the 4th-6th […]
A community center might be in the cards for Orion Township if residents like what they hear when Tom Chen presents his final report to the board of trustees on April 5. Chen was hired to do a feasibility study for Orion Township possibly building a community center. The process has been ongoing for the […]