Solving the budget puzzle and balancing the 2010/11 numbers means hacking $10 million from Lake Orion Community Schools? current spending, administrators say. So far, school officials are working with three large-scale puzzle pieces, which, they say, ? if placed carefully ? could do the trick: Cutting salaries and benefits, borrowing from fund balance and choosing […]
Construction, here we come. Funding for the downtown streetscape and repaving project was finalized Feb. 22 when the village council approved a loan for $1.2 million from the village’s water and sewer fund. Add those funds to $575,000 in grant money and money the Downtown Development Authority’s been stashing for several years, and the timing […]
Part one in a series of three Cuts in state funding for schools isn’t new news, and for weeks, Lake Orion school staff and administrators have presented analyses and studies on potential cuts to district to the school board. The analyses focus on cuts in school services and non-union staff, and are based on suggestions […]
Start shoveling Lake Orion police issued 13 warnings , Wed, Feb. 24, to residents and businesses for violating the village’s snow removal ordinance. Party’s over A 40-year-old man was cited for disturbing the peace Friday, Feb. 26 after Lake Orion police visited his residence on Northshore Drive twice in one day, according to reports. The […]
Monday, February 22, station #3 responded to a personal injury accident on Baldwin Road, north of Maybee. Station #2 responded to a firealarm on Woodside and said the situation was clear. Station #3 responded to a carbon monoxide alarm on Pasadena. Tuesday, February 23, station #3 investigated reports of smoke at Joslyn and Brown Roads, […]
Last year, Lake Orion Lion’s Club broke with tradition by holding their annual Jubilee the weekend before the Fourth of July. This year, the Jubilee won’t even be downtown. According to Lion’s Club President Jack Patton, the club is looking to hold what he calls their biggest fundraiser of the year at Canterbury Village, pending […]
Students hurried to bathrooms in Blanche Sims Elementary to take care of business before the water was shut off around 2 p.m., Feb. 17. Meanwhile, village Department of Public Works (DPW) workers gathered down Florence Street in preparation to fix a water main break. DPW Director Mike Olson said just facilities around Florence and Jackson […]
It’s on TV? Where ONTV? In an attempt to protect community access television from ‘critical and immediate? threats, the Orion Township Board of Trustees and Lake Orion Village Council announced their support of the Community Access Preservation Act. The act keeps cable companies from tucking public, education and government (PEG) channels in convoluted menus or […]
First graders in Jaime Lovely’s class at Blanche Sims Elementary visited with students in Texas through a TV screen, Feb. 17. During a video conference, the little Orionites shared their experiences in Michigan weather and demonstrated how to put on snow gear. The ‘friends from Texas? said most kids in their area don’t have winter […]
Will do what for money? A woman on Hauxwell was forced to call police, Feb. 15, after receiving harassing phone calls from a man ‘interested in services by the hour.? The calls came as a result of a false ad placed on Craig’s List stating that the woman was desperate for money and would perform […]