I recently traveled to the Main Art Theatre in Royal Oak to see the new Al Gore documentary, ‘An Inconvenient Truth.? It was the only place where I could find the film, but I believe it should be playing on every multiplex screen in America. It’s not necessarily a fun watch. Nobody likes to be […]
Years of hard work paid off for Waldon Middle School, as they became the district’s seventh building to receive the Michigan Blue Ribbon Exemplary School Award on June 1. The Michigan Department of Education began participating in the Blue Ribbon program in 1982, and schools are selected based on their effectiveness in meeting rigorous state […]
Many of you probably spent the long Memorial Day weekend enjoying the outdoors, then retiring for the evening into air-conditioned comfort. Not me…as temperatures soared to record highs in the 90s, I discovered the central air I so enjoyed in my apartment last summer was no longer producing anything other than hot, stuffy air. I […]
Their reasons for being there were all different, but their goal was the same. Lake Orion Adult Education and Learning Options High School held a graduation ceremony for nearly 50 students on May 30 at Lake Orion High School. Graduate David McCloud received his diploma, while his children, six-year-old Jacob and five-year-old Ashley, looked on. […]
Lake Orion Schools hopes to keep the doors of the Moose Tree Nature Preserve building open through next year, by eliminating programs there for secondary education students. Executive Director of Business Services Jillynn Keppler, filling in for absent Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction Dave Beiter at the May 24 school board meeting, said they […]
Lake Orion Schools Executive Director of Business Services Jillynn Keppler said it looks as if state revenue dollar amount increases offered per student will be set at $220-$230. At the school board’s May 24 meeting, Keppler asked the board for direction on how to proceed in preparing the 2006-2007 budget, for finalization in June. ‘That […]
Politicians seem to love wasting paper. We often get copies of a press release faxed to us, sent in the mail, and also emailed. Often we receive copies of the same information faxed to us several times. The email is sufficient…what’s with the waste? Mike Rogers? office seems the most guilty of this. Recent case […]
Downtown Lake Orion presented the Fifth Annual Flower Fair and Home and Garden Marketplace under sunny, blue skies over the weekend. Rainy weather that had plagued the area over the past week finally broke, and area residents were able to enjoy the fair’s entertainment, concessions, children’s activities and vendor booths, including plants and garden accessories. […]
One block of Flint Street, between Lapeer and Broadway Streets, will close for two weeks beginning June 1, for the construction of a drain connection between the new Sagebrush Cantina and the the village sanitary system. The Lake Orion Village Council approved the request at their May 22 meeting, on the conditions that proper barricading […]
I was one of many who flocked to the theaters over the weekend to see The Da Vinci Code movie. Although I read the book, I still found myself getting wrapped up in the story. Despite how you may feel about the film’s subject matter, it does succeed in its main goal, to entertain. There […]