Family trouble Police are investigating a possible domestic violence incident on E. Flint. According to the report, a woman in her 50s hit and choked her elderly step-father. Police are still looking for corroborating evidence and will continue the investigation. Trip cancelled Staff at a village motel became suspicious when a man paid for a […]
Tuesday, April 6, station #1 responded to a tree on S. Park Boulevard that was smoking after taking a direct hit from lightning. According to officials, the tree was still smoking from the inside after being doused with the hose. Station #3 responded to a car accident involving three injured people at Brown and Joslyn […]
Over 30 fire fighter cadets from Oakland Fire Academy and a shiny fire engine rolled into Orion Oaks Elementary, Tuesday, April 13 for an annual fire safety visit. The program’s been on fire for 10 years and counting. During the presentation, students learned to how stop, drop and roll, how to crawl along the floor […]
Pine Tree Elementary looked a little different when students returned from Spring Break, Monday. With $4,000 and 60 volunteers, the Home Depot Foundation took Pine Tree Elementary’s old gray walls to task. ‘There’s just no way we could have done this without them,? said Pine Tree Principal Diane Dunaskiss. ‘It would have been years of […]
Art is safe. So are Family School Coordinators and middle school assistant principals, for now. And it looks like all day, every day kindergarten will be sticking around. The Lake Orion Board of Education outlined their preliminary budget recommendation and had audience members breathing a sigh of relief when those hot-topic items weren’t on the […]
When Bridget Llewellyn first started writing her children’s book in October 2007, there weren’t any others quite like it ? a fact that she says was her inspiration for ‘One Child, One Planet.?? ?[The goal is] to get children to appreciate the beauty in nature and preserve it, to get more kids playing outside instead […]
Celebrate Earth Day every day. That’s the lifestyle Michele Parsons says she encourages students to live. To that end, she and students have recycled thousands of ‘e-waste? items, like empty printer ink cartridges and old cell phones, and raised nearly $4,500 in two years doing it. The Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) member and environmentally-conscious mother of […]
Fourth grade students at Stadium Drive and other elementary schools around the district held Disability Awareness Day in April to promote consciousness and understanding.
I love, love, LOVE that everything is green again. I think the whole point of winter is to make me appreciate spring and summer. I imagine that’s what peace activist John McConnell was thinking in 1969. He probably said something like, ‘This green world is pretty groovy. We gotta stop mucking up the environment.? Enter […]
Numbers keep going up for the boys? varsity lacrosse team, and that’s a pretty good thing, says Coach Nik Banda. Number of wins, number of quality players, number of years the budding varsity sport had been around ? all higher than ever before, allowing the Dragon coach to set his sights on a deeper run […]