If the state OK’s an agreement recently approved by both the Village of Lake Orion and Orion Township, township building inspectors will again be serving the village. The contract is being forwarded to Henry Green of the Michigan Bureau of Construction Codes. For several years, his department has worked in the village doing building inspections. […]
As anticipated by local school district administrators, Governor Jennifer Granholm is asking for another cut in per pupil allowances sent to school districts in the state. At the Lake Orion School Board meeting on Nov. 12, administrators submitted a proposal to reduce the 2003-04 budget by $383,022. Board members will take action on the proposal […]
One change occurred after a Nov. 10 public hearing on ways to spend the Village of Lake Orion’s Community Block Development Block Grant Funds. Council members agreed to take $1,500 from an allotted $3,000 for street trees from 2002-03 CDBG monies and give it to the Women’s Survival Center. The council told Mary Grace McCarter, […]
How can you not love those oddball catalogs that show up in the mail every so often. Harriet Carter, since 1958, has been selling those interesting gifts that you don’t find anywhere else. Here’s some samples: Holiday Dress-Up Dog — This 11 inch high poly/resin dog has a hat for all seasons. He can wear […]
Parents are being warned they’ll see more students at each bus stop and the stops will be farther apart when school starts this August Currently, Lake Orion School District buses stop 3,700 times a day. When a new transportation plan is finalized this summer, the number of stops will be around 1,200. According to school […]
This is my third annual tip column on using products you probably have in your house for some very uncommon uses. These came from a company in Peachtree, Georgia. ? Lemon juice and salt will remove rust stains from a counter top. This one’s real handy because we’ve all stored sauces with tomato in them. […]
A group of six Downtown Lake Orion volunteers thinks the village is ‘cool.? They call themselves The COOL (Cultural Opportunities for Orion Lifestyles) Commission. The commission’s chairperson, Lisa Sokol, asked village council members on April 26 if her group could apply for a Cool Cities grant that could bring up to $100,000 into the village. […]
You won’t see lunchboxes at Blanche Sims Elementary School filled with peanut butter sandwiches, M & Ms and Ritz Bits with Cheese. It has become a peanut-free zone. School officials have asked parents not to let their children bring any food items that contain peanut products into the school. A first-grader was recently diagnosed as […]
I can’t imagine what my childhood would have been like if I couldn’t have taken a peanut butter sandwich to school every day. The sandwich, combined with a banana, gave me a lunch that was far superior to any unknown food floating around in liquid in the hot lunch line. Currently, three elementary schools in […]
BY ELAINE STIEB Lake Orion Review Editor For 24 years Stan Ford has been working at Green’s Park and is worried that keeping the swim park open for longer hours will create safety issues. Ford, the swim director at the park on M-24, asked Lake Orion Village Council members on April 26 not to open […]