Last week, it was reported in the news that Radio Shack had laid off 400 employees at their Fort Worth, Texas headquarters via email. I knew today’s corporate world had gotten cold, but not this cold. The company claims they handled the layoffs as ‘respectfully as they could,? but I disagree. An email tends to […]
Members of the Lake Orion Church of Christ traveled to Panama last August on a mission trip, but this summer they decided to stay a bit closer to home. Mission Possible 2006, which ran Aug. 13-18, had members volunteering their time, many of them using vacation time from work, to go out into the community […]
I spent this past weekend trying to squeeze in a few last fun outings before summer makes its unofficial exit this weekend. On Saturday I visited the Detroit Zoo for the first time this year. Although the zoo was reporting funding problems earlier this year, they seemed to be taking in plenty of money at […]
Lake Orion Police Chief Jerry Narsh is asking citizens who may have come in contact with a man posing as a police officer to contact the department, after a woman was stopped on Heights Road last week. The 68-year-old woman, who was visiting from out-of-town, was leaving the Kroger store on Lapeer Road on Aug. […]
Several residents, along with members of the Lake Orion Lake Association (LOLA), say weeds in Lake Orion are the worst this summer that they’ve been in 20 years. In the interest of cleaning up the lake, residents spoke with the Lake Orion Village Council on Aug. 14, about possibly establishing a Special Assessment District (SAD) […]
The Lake Orion Police Department is searching for whoever assaulted a 16-year-old boy at the intersection of M-24 and Flint Street on Sunday evening, after a traffic altercation. According to LO Police Chief Jerry Narsh, the incident occurred between 9:30-10 p.m. on Aug. 20. The victim’s vehicle was traveling northbound on M-24, with two 16-year-old […]
A proposal to offer valet parking in downtown Lake Orion will not go forward until Ted Schmidt deposits $500 with the Village of Lake Orion–although the Village Council would like him to do more research with downtown merchants first. Schmidt, who listed his address in the proposal as Clarkston Road, was first before the council […]
A man who appears to be homeless has been charged with prowling, and resisting and obstructing police, after he threw a lawn mower at a Lake Orion Police Department officer during a chase on Aug. 11. Jonathan Mark Pence, 23, who listed the address of the former Domino’s Pizza on Lapeer Road on his Michigan […]
Downtown Lake Orion will be going to the dogs starting Aug. 24. That’s when the Dog Days of August downtown sidewalk sales (with participating village merchants) and village-wide garage sales kick-off, running through Aug. 25. On Aug. 25, T&C Federal Credit Union is sponsoring Music and a Movie in the parking lot of Children’s Park, […]
The Commander Cody Band will take the stage at the Canterbury Castle Banquet Center at Olde World Canterbury Village in Orion Township on Aug. 24, headlining a party that is not to be missed. Commander Cody, which formed in Ann Arbor in 1968, is led by the Commander himself, George Frayne, on piano and vocals, […]