SYNOPSIS ORION TOWNSHIP LIBRARY BOARD Meeting December 18, 2003 Present: John Cirner, Mary Pergeau, Frank Mclsaac, James J. Abramczyk, Alexis Iveson, MaryAnne Thorndycraft, trustees; Linda Sickles, director Guests: Barbara and Paul Butkis President Mary Anne Thorndycraft called the meeting to order at 7:07 p.m. 1. Agenda approved as amended 2. Barbara Butkis was presented with […]
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLANNING COMMISSION ATWATER COMMONS PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT TEXT AMENDMENT The Planning Commission of the Village of Lake Orion will hold a public hearing on Application No. PC-04-01, Atwater Commons’ request for text amendments. The purpose of this meeting is to review and receive comments on an application to amend the approved […]
Last week the Rivest family, of Addison Township, suffered a tragedy few of us can relate to or even imagine. An explosion and subsequent fire robbed the family of their world. Mike Rivest, 43, a father and husband, is gone. Twenty-month-old Gage, a son and brother, is gone. The family home is gone. All their […]
To send money directly to Karin Rivest, make your check or money order payable to “Karin Rivest” and mail it to either: Karin Rivest C/O Michelle Hillman 615 Vista Del Sol Drive Lapeer, MI 48446 -OR- Living Word Lutheran Church 3838 N. Rochester Road Rochester, MI 48306 Those wishing to make a donation that will […]
An injured swan in Oxford Township received protection and aid from three guardian angels Tuesday. Oxford residents John Guzman and Jerry Modders and Metamora resident Chris Graye rescued the swan, who was found sitting in the middle of Oxford Road, just north of Noble Road. “He wouldn’t move,” said Guzman, who was the first to […]
After almost a year of negotiations, the Oxford Area Community Schools Board of Education voted 5-1 at the Jan. 13 regular board meeting to approve new one-year contracts for the district’s four central office administrators that included total pay increases ranging from 8.63 percent to 11.48 percent. “The good things that happen in our district […]
Monday, January 6 Suspicious circumstance on Crawford St. turned out to be just a trunk left open on a parked vehicle. Tuesday, January 7 A 34-year-old N. Washington St. disabled resident reported a suspicious circumstance when she found that $80 was missing from a jar in her home. A 35-year-old Oxford Township man and his […]
Fire investigators with the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department have confirmed that the propane heating system of the Rivest home, located on Haven Rd., was the cause of an explosion that took the lives of an Addison resident Mike Rivest, 43, and his 20-month-old son Gage; however, authorities were unclear as to why the system exploded. […]
A northbound car driving in the southbound lane caused an accident Thursday, Jan. 8 on M-24, just north of Drahner Road, around 3 p.m. According to the report from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department, a 17-year-old Clinton Township man, who was northbound in his 1999 Ford Mustang, “admits he was not paying attention and crossed […]
A revised five-year dispatch contract retroactive to Jan. 1, 2004 was unanimously approved by the Oxford Village Council Tuesday night. The contract to provide fire/EMS dispatch services to the Oxford Public Fire and EMS Commission was a revised version written by township attorney Chris Kaye, according to village President Steve Allen. It contains the same […]