Scat, skaters Around 4 p.m., Monday, Feb. 8, Lake Orion police dispersed several skateboarders from S. Broadway business after the business called to complain. What’s that smell? Police arrived at an apartment on Orion Road to investigate reports of marijuana smoke odors around 9 p.m., Feb. 8. Officers discovered the smell came from a skunk […]
Downtown Lake Orion businesses should get rid of snow and ice accumulations two or more inches forming between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. immediately. Anything falling after 9 p.m. should be removed by 9 a.m. the following day, say Lake Orion Police. As the adage goes ‘you know who you are? if you violate the […]
Lake Orion kids enjoyed a day of play at Orion/Oxford Boys and Girls Club during a mid-winter break from school. On days with no school, like Monday and Tuesday this week, the club is open from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. while adults keep their noses to the grindstone.
Last year, Lake Orion Lion’s Club broke with tradition by holding their annual Jubilee the weekend before the Fourth of July. This year, the Jubilee won’t even be downtown. According to Lion’s Club President Jack Patton, the club is looking to hold what he calls their biggest fundraiser of the year at Canterbury Village, pending […]
Students hurried to bathrooms in Blanche Sims Elementary to take care of business before the water was shut off around 2 p.m., Feb. 17. Meanwhile, village Department of Public Works (DPW) workers gathered down Florence Street in preparation to fix a water main break. DPW Director Mike Olson said just facilities around Florence and Jackson […]
It’s on TV? Where ONTV? In an attempt to protect community access television from ‘critical and immediate? threats, the Orion Township Board of Trustees and Lake Orion Village Council announced their support of the Community Access Preservation Act. The act keeps cable companies from tucking public, education and government (PEG) channels in convoluted menus or […]
First graders in Jaime Lovely’s class at Blanche Sims Elementary visited with students in Texas through a TV screen, Feb. 17. During a video conference, the little Orionites shared their experiences in Michigan weather and demonstrated how to put on snow gear. The ‘friends from Texas? said most kids in their area don’t have winter […]
Will do what for money? A woman on Hauxwell was forced to call police, Feb. 15, after receiving harassing phone calls from a man ‘interested in services by the hour.? The calls came as a result of a false ad placed on Craig’s List stating that the woman was desperate for money and would perform […]
Solving the budget puzzle and balancing the 2010/11 numbers means hacking $10 million from Lake Orion Community Schools? current spending, administrators say. So far, school officials are working with three large-scale puzzle pieces, which, they say, ? if placed carefully ? could do the trick: Cutting salaries and benefits, borrowing from fund balance and choosing […]
Construction, here we come. Funding for the downtown streetscape and repaving project was finalized Feb. 22 when the village council approved a loan for $1.2 million from the village’s water and sewer fund. Add those funds to $575,000 in grant money and money the Downtown Development Authority’s been stashing for several years, and the timing […]