Lori Penman submitted her resignation from the Lake Orion School Board at a July 14 meeting. She’s been on the board for five years. Penman recently remarried and is moving to another community. Her resignation becomes effective Aug. 1. According to state law, the vacant seat must be filled within 30 days (Aug. 31) of […]
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Department responded to a call of an intoxicated man with a handgun on Hummingbird on July 13. The OCSD were dispatched to the Orion Lakes Mobile Home Park on Brown Road in response to a 42-year-old man who said his friend, a 24-year-old Southfield man, had come to his home with […]
Ten Years Ago July 20, 1994 ~~~Lake Orion’s Clerk Mary Simmons is retiring after 23 years on the job. ~~~Bill and Ruth Lowe and Harvey Rodge, all Oakland Township residents, won their share of medals at the Senior Olympics in Holland. Twenty Years Ago July 18, 1984 ~~~Groundbreaking for the new 58 unit senior citizens? […]
Silverbell Road, between Kern and Adams Roads in Oakland Township, will be closed from approximately July 26-Aug. 27. The closure is necessary so the township can widen and resurface the Silverbell/Adams intersection and reduce the slope of a hill on Silverbell west of the intersection. During the closure, the detour route will be Kern to […]
Because of future upgrading work that needs to be done at the Union Church building in the Village of Lake Orion, permits will be needed. Village council members agreed to waive any fees that the village usually charges for this type of a project. According to LO Village Manager JoAnn Van Tassel, she anticipates only […]
Owners of the Verwood Apartments on South Broadway have been leasing property from the Village of Lake Orion that has provided tenant parking since 1982. The apartment building was sold sometime in April, and the new owners, ZB LLC of Southfield, asked village officials to assign the lease agreement to them. Village council members on […]
The United Way of Oakland County has informed Oakland County Commissioner Eric Wilson it will give $3,000 towards a feasibility study of an area senior center facility. The study would assess the possibility of a shared senior center in the areas of Orion, Oxford and Addison Township and the Villages of Lake Orion, Leonard and […]
It’s not often that four friends have the chance to visit six countries together. Four students from Lake Orion High School, all 2004 graduates, got that opportunity this year, as they left on June 20 for a three and a half week trip backpacking across Europe. They returned recently with lots of stories to tell. […]
The fire destruction of commercial buildings this spring has changed the scope of an attempt to have some part of the Village of Lake Orion declared an Historic District. Steve Auger, chairman of the Downtown Development Authority, told village council members on July 12, the state is telling the DDA it probably doesn’t have enough […]
On behalf of my father, Stan Sweet, and our family, I would like to thank John Ranville for his service to the community. In particular, he extended extra considerations to my father in his last years. We wish him well in his retirement and look forward to his future election to the village council. He’s […]