The CARE Preschool at Lake Orion High School will host an open house for potential students on May 7 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. The open house will include crafts and a tour of the program. The preschool, open for eight years, is currently enrolling children age three and up for tuition (residents from any area) […]
Union Church Governing Board President Burke Cueny hopes with volunteer help that the first phase of the restoration of Union Church will be complete in a few months time. “We’re trying to get things done in the shell (phase I), so we can get a certificate of occupancy,” he explained to the Orion Township Board […]
For the staff of Waldon Family Medicine on Baldwin Road, the brightest part of the holidays isn’t the gifts they received, it’s the ones they give away to some of their patients. Dr. Cynthia Glasson came up with the idea to hold a Christmas party for some of their patients in need three years ago, […]
There are a lot of new faces on the roster of this year’s Lake Orion High School Boys Varsity Basketball Team, and head coach Jim Manzo hopes inexperience won’t hold his team back this season. The Dragons graduated seven seniors from last year’s squad, which went 4-16 in OAA II before losing their first district […]
The Lake Orion High School Varsity Volleyball Team has a new coach this season, but his name is anything but new to the Lake Orion Volleyball Program. Mike Hatch served as the school’s varsity coach until 1991, coaching varsity and junior varsity volleyball for a combined 15 years at LOHS. He’s been an assistant coach […]
The board of the Gingellville Community Center is wondering why the township has assessed them for property tax this year, when they are exempt from federal income tax. Orion Township Assessor John Attwell said the two exemptions are not the same. Gingellville Community Center Director Pam Hutchison said she never received a letter from Attwell […]
Residents filled Orion Township Hall on Monday evening to let the board of trustees know how they felt about the idea of constructing a new community center. Many said no. The board was presented with four options for a center after a nearly two year-long feasibility study was recently completed. Most of the people speaking […]
Fire investigators from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department are blaming careless smoking as the cause of a mobile home fire that took the life of an Orion Township woman on Dec. 5. The Orion Township Fire Department and OCSD responded to the fire at a mobile home on Mockingbird, located in the Orion Lakes Mobile […]
Two property owners in the Hi Hill Subdivision wanting an exception to a resolution passed by the Orion Township Board of Trustees requiring all residents there to hook up to the public water system or pay a $8,100 fee will have to wait a bit longer for a decision. The board voted to postpone a […]
A 35-year-old Lake Orion man remains in William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak after his 1998 Ford Ranger pick-up truck struck a tree on Scripps Road on Dec. 7. According to Oakland County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Thomas Poulin of the Crash Reconstruction Unit, the man, Sean Patrick Theunick was driving westbound on Scripps about 7:20 […]