The Polly Ann Trail will run a little longer thanks to the Orion Township Board of Trustees. The board unanimously approved a contract at their meeting on Jan. 5 to extend the trail by three and a half miles starting at Joslyn and Heights. The trail will get gravel and upgrades beginning there, and where […]
The Lake Orion wrestling team won their duel meets against Troy high schools on Jan. 7–quite handily. They beat Troy High School 59-19 and Troy Athens 49-27. On Saturday, they sent one team to Adrian High School, and another to East Detroit. They had a strong showing at both, according to Coach Doug Kline. ‘It […]
After a 48-26 loss at Troy on Jan. 6, the Dragons boys? varsity basketball team was 0-4. By the fourth quarter of their next game against Adams, it looked as if the Dragons would pull off their first victory of the season. In fact, even after the last buzzer sounded, the game was tied 39-39. […]
Tax preparer Rod Nackerman has sat at a lot of tables in a half century. While the longtime Orion Township resident usually sets up calculator and briefcase on the tables in homes–thus the name of his company, Tabletop Tax Service–he has also done taxes at places like truck weigh stations and in the backrooms of […]
After a yearlong unpaid medical absence, Director of Parks and Recreation Rock Blanchard is no longer an employee of Orion Township. ‘The township and Rock Blanchard have decided to amicably part ways,? said Township Supervisor Matt Gibb. In the past four years, Blanchard has been tied to the alleged dumping of potentially harmful fill dirt […]
lot of great art came out of the 1920s, a time when F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote of the Jazz Era in novels and stories and artists like Pablo Picasso were redefining aesthetic values. But it was also a decade of speakeasies, flappers and gangsters. The Orion Art Center has decided to meld the two by […]
Orion Township is feeling the impact of the global economic decline and is in for more, according to Township Supervisor Matt Gibb. There in an overall 12 percent decline in residential value predicted for Oakland County in the next year. A 6.5 percent decline is forecasted for Orion in 2009. This figure includes residential, which […]
Nancy Loerch, the new president of Women in Defense, Michigan chapter, likes to relay a story when describing what her company does. A truck hauling a horse trailer is traveling down a road in the South when one of the tires pops off the trailer, striking and injuring the 40-year-old driver. It was all a […]
Orion has changed significantly since Doris Stauber moved here with her family in 1972. The once-rural township now has its new cash crops–homes and condominiums. As the wild places in the township are replaced by plazas and backyards, it seems that the only natural landscapes left are hanging on the walls of Stauber’s home. Now, […]
The Lake Orion ski teams are starting off a great season, and it’s not just thanks to all the snow they have to ski on lately. Accoring to Coach Derek Delzer, it all comes down to teamwork. In their first three races, the boy’s team is undefeated. They beat Lahser 25-62 (lowest score wins) on […]