The Lake Orion Special Olympic basketball team didn’t win their annual game last week, but they played strong and proud — like true Dragons — and the message from fans was pretty clear. Regardless of the score, they were winners, every one.
I finally found it. I didn’t know I was looking for it, exactly, but I found it and I’ve got my fingers wrapped around it. I’m happy. I like it here. The story begins with an apology to Michele Novak at Lake Orion High School. I had an appointment with Michele at 10 a.m. Thursday […]
George Edwards wasn’t sure what, exactly, he was getting into when he threw his hat into the ring at Lake Orion High School’s inaugural Challenge Day in 2007, but as the parent of four children’two LOHS grads, a junior and a middle-schooler’he was happy to volunteer. The experience, he said, was unforgettable. ‘I heard things […]
Smash n? grab A woman called police March 2 to report she’d arrived at work on Northpoint Drive about 8:30 a.m. and went back to her car around 11:30 a.m. to discover a window smashed from her vehicle and her purse missing from the front seat where she’d left it. Night out gone bad A […]
Thieves smashed windows from about a dozen cars Saturday night in Orion Township, making off with GPS units, iPods, laptops, a set of expensive golf clubs and other items left in vehicles overnight. ‘If you leave your belongings in the car you’re just inviting someone to steal them,? said Sgt. Michael Suarez of the Oakland […]
Orion Township is ready to make a deal. Almost. That’s the word from township Supervisor Matthew Gibb, who on Monday took the board of trustees into executive session to present an update on negotiations between the township and General Motors in a long-planned venture to build a water tower near the Orion Assembly Plant. ‘We’re […]
Drive An Orion Township woman filed a police report March 5 after learning an unknown person fraudulently used her credit card’to the tune of $930’for a rental car. Missing meds A 34-year-old woman living on Heights Road called police March 6 after discovering some of her medication was missing when she returned home after a […]
Orion Township has money in the bank, and no plans to spend it. With a 100 percent-plus fund balance tucked safely under its belt, the Board of Trustees met recently to begin work on long-term budget planning. The meeting ended with the establishment of three goals. Goal one: Make sure revenue projections’from property taxes, revenue […]
When you go to the butcher, point out a cut of meat and say ‘trim the fat? you don’t expect to see him grab the cleaver and start carving the white flecks of fat’the marbling’from within your steak. The more marbling, after all, the higher the USDA grade; the well-marbled ‘prime? grade is the good […]
I’ve heard about the vision three or four times now. You know’the one about the Lake Orion High School grad who, while sitting in some California coffee shop sipping a latte, opens a magazine and finds a feature from back home. ‘Orion Township, one of the coolest places on earth to live, to work, to […]