Supporters of the 12-year-old girl from Lake Orion, Alayna, came out all day last Saturday, September 20 to help raise funds for her family. Alayna’s mom and dad were in attendance but remained incognito while more than 20 venders, more than 20 musicians, and hundreds of volunteers put the event together. Alayna was diagnosed with […]
The Orion Township board of trustees held a truth-in-budgeting public hearing September 16 to set the millage rates for the 2014 budget. The proposed 2013 millage rates were voted and passed 7-0 with the millage rates set as follows: general fund 0.9322; fire fund .9916; police fund 1.9832; police fund 1.0168; safety paths .2382; totaling […]
While studying at the Strawbale Studio hidden in the growth of Oxford’s back roads, clay will get under some toenails. Hands will smooth the edges of stucco walls. Learning the difference between silt and sand will be left to the fingers. What the current project volunteers worked on last Thursday September 19 is the ‘Hobit […]
Last Saturday runners wearing pink flooded the fields of Lake Orion High School. Walking and running for the third annual A Mother’s Wish 5K and optional 10K were over 500 people, with 386 preregistered. Plus, add another 125 volunteers and spectators to total 600 to 700 people that came out to support the cause. With […]
The Lake Orion Village Council addressed two issues with the village water main underneath Fairview Ave, a road shared by both township and village residents. The first issue involved approval to contract with village engineering firm Hubble Roth and Clark (HRC) to prepare a topographic survey and design plan to potentially replace 650 linear feet […]
LeanRyde is not your typical cycling studio. Instead of the completely stationary bikes cyclists find in gyms or other studios, LeanRyde’s bikes literally lean, from side to side, for half hour to 45 minute classes. ‘They lean from left to right, and by doing that you can get an entire body workout,? Dawn Bajis said, […]
A local prayer group from Kensington Church-Orion has tapped into churches around southeast Michigan top help reduce suicides. The small, 12-person group that began praying about the suicide rate in Lake Orion and Oakland County at large inspired 46 churches to commit one time a week to do the same thing. On October 10 Kensington […]
Lake Orion High School kicked off a year of leadership for teens from 32 Oakland County public high schools on Wednesday, September 25. Students from their schools? leadership classes came in pairs but were almost immediately split upon arriving to LOHS. Half the group journeyed outside to the school’s high ropes course, and the other […]
Alex Leh is following right in his grandfather’s footsteps. At 16 years old, he is an honor student at LOHS, marches full time for the band, and contributes much of his other time to community service projects. His last project in particular was dedicated to his grandfather Dick Sullivan. Leh built two six-foot-tall pantries for […]
Tim Smith of Lakewood Drive will no longer be embarrassed by his rust-stained socks. ‘We can’t wait to clean up the rust that has accumulated in the house over the years and then not have it come back, so it’s great, I don’t have to be embarrassed anymore,? he said. ‘I can actually wear white […]