Due to increased costs to operate an extensive athletic program and decreases in state funding, Lake Orion School Board members are considering asking parents to pay to have their children play sports. If that plan is adopted, the pay-to-play will begin this fall for high school and middle school students. High school athletes would have […]
Bennett DeWolf, 2, of Oxford took advantage of warm temperatures last week, taking a ride in downtown Lake Orion’s Children’s Park.
The Michigan Department of Transportation began resurfacing a 4.9-mile stretch of M-24 May 3, and will do the work at night to ease the project’s affect on traffic. One lane of north and south M-24 will be closed for resurfacing work from 8 p.m.-6 a.m. through June 22. The projects spans from Clarkston Road in […]
Once again Plante & Moran auditors have given Orion Township a clean bill of financial health. Trustees heard a presentation on the township’s 2003 audit at the May 3 board meeting. Plante & Moran representative Beth Bailey said the township added to its general fund last year as result of having less expenditures than expected. […]
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Department responded to a call of four people with flashlights, trying to enter cars in the parking lot at Waldon Lakes Apartments on Waldon Road on May 5. According to an OCSD report, the caller saw three white men and one black man in the parking lot. A deputy reported seeing […]
An Oakland County Sheriff’s Department deputy received minor injuries as the result of a two-car accident on Baldwin Road on May 6. OCSD Lt. Bruce Naile, commander of the Orion substation, said a deputy, 40, was turning left from northbound Baldwin into the Indianwood Junction party store about 7:22 a.m., when he was struck by […]
The second annual Lake Orion High School spring carnival will be May 13-16 at Olde World Canterbury Village on Joslyn Road. The carnival will be in the parking lot of the antique market, and will feature the same types of food and games as the downtown carnival held every year. Operating times are May 13, […]
This year’s stripping the pavement project in the Village of Lake Orion will be more extensive than in the past. The work includes 65 crossings, three school crossings, 21 stop bars, 11 ‘STOP? markings, seven streets with double yellow center lines, six streets with parking spaces marked and two parking lots with parking spaces and […]
MWB Contracting had donated 10,000 yards of topsoil and fill to the Orion Township Parks and Recreation Department. The board of trustees accepted the donation, valued at $25,000, at the May 3 board meeting. The donation, along with dozing of the material, is being offered by MWB for Friendship Park, at the corner of Clarkston […]
Members of the Orion Township parks and recreation advisory committee is looking for alternate members. The committee bylaws were amended, with approval from the board of trustees, to say that ‘one of which may be non-resident business owner or property owner,? regarding the alternates.