So many things to do in the township and not enough money to do them. That’s what taxpayers are now facing with discussions ongoing about the possibility of building a new community center. If only we could turn back time..before the economy took a nose-dive. Voters were saying yes to every millage request asked of […]
For over 35 years, Lake Orion’s DPW Director John Ranville has been performing side jobs in the village. Now village council members are telling him to curtail some of his construction work. LO Village Manager JoAnn Van Tassel told the council on Nov. 24, it’s a conflict of interest for Ranville to personally contract to […]
In these days of declining revenues for school districts, LO School District Athletic Director Bill Reiss thinks he has found a way to earn some extra money. He told school board members in November he would like to start charging elementary students a $2 admission fee to high school sporting events. “Through the winter this […]
Should have worn a hat. At least that’s what Wes Fuelling told me at Saturday’s Tree Lighting Ceremony. By the time people started arriving at Children’s Park, the wind was blowing hard (dropping the chill factor) and clouds reappeared after a brief flirting of sunshine earlier in the afternoon. Because of the park’s gazebo and […]
Joseph Lloyd LeMaster, 31 will be sentenced on Jan. 6 for crashing a boat and seriously injuring a passenger on Lake Orion. The Orion Township man pled guilty to three charges in the incident that happened last July. He made an appearance before Judge Steven Andrews in Oakland County Circuit Court on Dec. 4. After […]
Several years ago, student Alex Smith was suspended for 10 days for writing a parody about the tardy policy at Mount Pleasant High School and about the teachers and administrators charged with enforcing it. According to Henry Silverman, a professor at Michigan State University, this is an erosion of student rights and the miseducation of […]
A gazebo may or may not be built at Green’s Park. The Village of Lake Orion’s Parks and Recreation Committee wants to seek proposals for building a 12 foot gazebo. Members of Main Street’s Design Committee thinks a picnic pavilion might be better suited for the park on M-24. Lisa Simpkins, a member of the […]
A big city boy has turned into a small town cop and he’s loving every minute of it. Todd Stanfield is the newest full-time officer in the Lake Orion Police Department. He’s been on the job since the end of September. Stanfield grew up on the east side of Detroit. His parents moved out to […]
For the past several weeks I’ve been staring out my window at an American flag that looks pretty darn disgusting. It’s all tattered and torn and is no longer attached to the flag pole at one end. The flag pole sits at the corner of North Broadway and Shadbolt Street. The same thing happened a […]
On the surface, it appeared Park Island homeowners came to the village council Dec. 8 meeting to present a petition asking for a ban on street parking from 3-6 a.m. Members of 18 households out of 30 on the island signed the petition. The request was made, according to the petition, to facilitate snow plowing […]