On Jan. 27, the school board met for the second time to evaluate Superintendent Ken Gutman’s performance and had only positive things to say. Board members reviewed three areas of performance: progress within the district, the superintendent’s relationship with the board and his personal qualities. Words like leadership, excellence and poise cropped up throughout the […]
Putting stock in the company’s future, General Motors engineers met for the final time with Paint Creek Elementary second graders Feb. 6. The team of engineers had visited the students a total of five times over the past two months to teach them about science and engineering. In the program, the team of engineers covered […]
Last year’s crime activity reports are in for the Village of Lake Orion and the results are mixed. Social crimes like drunk driving, juvenile offenses, narcotic possession and animal complaints are down 12.8 percent from 2007. Traffic enforcement totals are down, too. Citations are down 44.7 percent and crashes are down nine. However, person-to-person crimes […]
The township, village, schools and library are joining forces in on-going efforts to improve the community and save money. Superintendent Ken Gutman, Village Manager Paul Zelenak, Township Supervisor Matt Gibb and Township Library Director Linda Sickles met this month to discuss possible partnerships between the entities. ‘We want to work together to share services for […]
As a 23-year-old, I’ve discovered something that shocked me: people my age are incredibly underprepared to begin adult life. When I left for college I thought I was independent and ready for responsibility, but when I graduated, I realized I really didn’t know much either. And then when I moved to this area, I again […]
Nicole Read, Matt Fish, Chris Baumann, AJ Gill, Robbie Lentz and Jeff Heath signed National Letters of Intent Feb. 4. The letters commit them to the athletic program at the schools they signed with and stop recruiting from other universities and colleges. Read, a soccer player, is heading to the University of Illinois in the […]
The boys varsity bowling team beat out 27 other teams to take the Oakland County Championship title last month. They traveled to Wonderland Lanes in Commerce Township Jan. 24 and 25 to compete. The team qualified a cool 13 out of the top 16 teams to move on to the final round. They took 3,706 […]
Over the Jan. 23 weekend, Lake Orion Liquid Lightning (LOLL) swim club headed to Indianapolis for the Circle City Invitational. Twelve of the club’s members represented Orion at the top caliber event where they competed against teams from ten states across the country. Ashley Corriveau was the club’s top scorer. She took second in the […]
Over 70 inches of snow has fallen on Orion Township since November 2008 and it keeps on coming. According to the National Weather Service (NWS), the Detroit-metro area has about ten inches on the ground. Alpena has between 27 and 30. The Keweenaw Peninsula in the UP reportedly has upwards of 36 (though this writers’s […]
Village Manager Paul Zelenak has asked councilmembers to rearrange the budget planning schedule in hopes of creating a smarter budget for coming year. In previous years, the council held budget workshops after the manager’s office sketched up a preliminary budget. This year, Zelenak is requesting councilmembers share their lists of goals and objectives for the […]