Incumbents ruled in Lake Orion during Tuesday’s Primary Election–except for the race for Oakland County Commissioner for District 3, with Orion Township Trustee Michael Gingell upsetting incumbent Eric Wilson. Gingell won the Republican nomination to face Democrat Kate Zielinski of Rochester in the Nov. General Election, with 1,818 votes, or 56.65 percent. Wilson finished with […]
The Oakland County Crash Reconstruction Unit is investigating a vehicle/motorcycle crash that killed Edward Allan Majesky of Orion Township on Saturday afternoon. Majesky, 49, was operating a 2006 Harley Davidson motorcycle, eastbound on Oakwood Road, east of the state park in Brandon Township, when he was struck head-on by a 2005 Kia, at about 5:14 […]
Last week I got an email from Lake Orion resident Carl Johnson, 20, a self-proclaimed ‘armchair space history buff,? who was excited to share with me that NASA is in the final stages of picking a name for its program to return American astronauts to the surface of the moon by 2018…and it’s Project Orion! […]
A year-and-a-half process has paid off for the Pee Wee Patch Child Development Center in Lake Orion, as the center was recently awarded National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) accreditation. Pee Wee Patch Director Rhonda Meyers said earning accreditation status has been the center’s goals since opening their doors three years ago […]
After a lengthy application process, the Orion Historical Society expects to hear any day now formal word that Lake Orion has been approved to be added to the National Register of Historic Places. The Lake Orion Village Council recently received and filed the final report for the project, completed by the Mannik & Smith Group, […]
Downtown business owners wanting to display portable signs are being given a break by the Lake Orion Village Council–a lower fee, but also a request to make sure those signs are registered with the village. The fee was lowered in response to a request from Lake Orion barber Larry Dennis, who owns a shop on […]
The Lake Orion Village Council heard a rather unusual request at their July 24 meeting–a production company has asked to be allowed to shoot a scene for a movie in East Lawn Cemetery. Jason Hammonds, owner of Open Door Productions, a Lake Orion based film/media company, requested to use the cemetery on Orion Road for […]
This is my first, and hopefully last, column about my cat, Isabelle. I don’t have any real (i.e. human) children to write about, so you’re going to have to read about the only kid I’ve got, my cat. I got her when she was about six weeks old, a little over seven years ago. I […]
Voters going to the polls on Aug. 8 will determine who will continue on to the Nov. General Election as the Republican candidate in races for District 3 Oakland County Commissioner, 46th District State Representative, and US Congress Representatives for the 8th and 9th Districts. The race for 12th District State Senator is uncontested in […]
Summer is prime movie season. On any given weekend there have been at least two movies I’ve wanted to see. And since I love going to the movies, I love summer! The only thing I don’t love are the ticket prices. Ouch. So far my favorite movie of the summer is Superman Returns. Even if […]