Enough for smoke and stogies An employee at a gas station in the 700 block of Lapeer reported a 4-door Chevy Cobalt with an Ohio license plate pumped $25.99 in gas March 15 and drove off without paying. The employee also said the passenger purchased a pack of cigarettes and two Swisher Sweet cigars with […]
The good, the bad and the ugly; it was all on the table in one version or another as officials from across the Orion area came together Thursday to discuss the potential for collaboration between entities. Deputy Oakland County Executive Bob Daddow gave officials from the Village of Lake Orion, Orion Township, Lake Orion Community […]
Lt. Bruce Naile and his roughly two dozen deputies may still be policing Orion in the future, and they may not. Depends who you ask. Whatever the case, Naile — Orion Township’s substation commander since 1992 — wasn’t told the township’s elected and appointed officials would discuss the matter, among other issues, at a meeting […]
Broke while he smoked A man having a smoke outside his home on Big Bend March 23 called police after hearing the sound of smashing glass and seeing a large bald male break nearby. The man told police he then saw a female in a dark colored GM SUV pull up to pick up the […]
Three Lake Orion High School teens were arrested Monday in connection with burglaries in Orion Township. The incidents occurred Friday, April 2 at two homes in the 800 block of Pine Tree. According to Detective Jeff DeVita of the Oakland County Sheriff’s Orion substation, the three suspects said they were looking for money. The trio […]
Plans to light up the night over this year’s Jubilee Festival may be snuffed out if the Lake Orion Lions Club can’t meet strict safety requirements set by township officials. The Lions are requesting to use township property at Civic Center Park as a launch area for a fireworks display during the club’s annual festival, […]
Gym memberships and ‘boot camp? fitness programs for township employees’subsidized by taxpayer dollars’are good for the whole township. That’s the word from Orion Township Supervisor Matthew Gibb, who on Monday asked for and received approval to draw from the township’s fund balance in order to help pay for a ‘wellness? plan. ‘This is a direct […]
They’re kidding, right? That’s what Orion Township wants to use its 100 percent fund balance for? Employee gym memberships? They’re kidding, right? Late last year the township laid off 20 percent of its workforce just a week or so before Supervisor Matt Gibb asked the board for a $42,000-plus-benefits ‘supervisor’s assistant? (now called ‘operations manager?). […]
Lights lifted A woman living in the 300 block of Indianwood reported two copper-like landscape lights apparently stolen from her yard March 29. The woman said the lights were in the usual spot when she took the kids to the bus stop, but gone when she returned. And he’s buying booze? An Orion Township man […]
It takes money to save money. That was the general idea as Orion Township Supervisor Matthew Gibb discussed plans to move forward to form a Joint Committee on Collaboration based on the March 25 meeting between Orion Township, Village of Lake Orion, Lake Orion Community Schools, and the Orion Township Library board. ‘That meeting received […]