My son Jason hopes he’s started a new Fourth of July tradition. He single-handedly talked seven people into decorating their boats with lights and forming a parade to go around Lake Orion on Flare Night. I also participated with a friend who has a boat. We had a blast and I’m sure we’ll do it […]
Whew! It’s darn hot. I’m not a big lover of air conditioning, but I’m liking the constant blast of cold air in our office. Usually, I complain because it’s so cold, I have to wear something long sleeved. The complaining stopped a few weeks ago. What a difference from last summer. I hardly wore shorts […]
One more public safety tower is coming to the area. Orion Township trustees on June 20 OK’d a site plan and a lease agreement with Oakland County to construct a 256 foot tower on property in the township’s Civic Center Park. A tower in the Village of Lake Orion was put up earlier this spring. […]
In the six years Dr. Craig Younkman spent at the helm of the Lake Orion School District, he saw the student population increase by 1,100 and guided construction of two new buildings and major renovations at other buildings. And his last several years here have been a financial challenge with shrinking financial support from the […]
Developers of a commercial center in Orion Township were denied a chance to establish an Industrial Development District by trustees on June 20. Ashley Capital had wanted the district for its Orion Commerce Center, to be located on Silverbell Road across from the Eagle Valley Landfill. Advantages of an IDD would have been the ability […]
Lakefront property owners can’t figure out what’s gong on with the Orion Township Board of Trustees. One time they’re expecting to have a public hearing on a proposed Special Assessment District for weed control. Now they’re being told the township can no longer process those types of SADs. The board was recently informed by a […]
For the first time ever, some of this year’s fireworks are being shot off from a barge anchored in the waters of Lake Orion. Glen Stokes, chief pyrotechnic operator for Wolverine Fireworks Company, received an OK from Lake Orion Village Council members on June 27 to use the barge. It will be in the bay […]
An attempt by several village council members to hire a new Lake Orion Department of Public Works superintendent ‘from within? failed June 13. Councilmen, by a vote of 4-2, picked Scott Baker, who was Plymouth’s Assistant Director of Municipal Services from 1997-October 2004. Council members Tom Albert and Doug Dendel voted no to hiring Baker. […]
West of the bridge on Park Island Drive lies a small community of nice lakefront homes, many with attractive landscaping and lawns. What the residents don’t have is a paved road leading to their houses that’s in good shape. A group of them came to the Lake Orion Village Council meeting on June 13 asking […]
Start thinking Waste Away instead of Waste Management if you live in the village. Lake Orion officials are close to signing a contract with Waste Away for the village’s disposal services. The company is out of Ortonville. Waste Away came in as low bidder after nine different companies were asked to submit a proposal. Four […]