What do you get when you add a mother, her daughter, a good story and pictures into a pot? You get a children’s book that was number three on the Northwest Lower Michigan’s best-seller list for hardcover fiction after being on bookstore shelves for only three weeks. Petoskey Stone Soup, written by former Lake Orion […]
The 2006-07 school year is just around the corner, but summer vacation may last longer for the younger students in Oxford’s Head Start program. Due to problems with the telephone server at the program’s office at Daniel Axford Elementary, recruitment for the free preschool has been very slow for next year. ‘Even if (parents) could […]
When Maureen Kiplinger signed up for ‘Walk Michigan? through Oxford Parks and Rec., she wasn’t doing it to win the trip to Mackinac Island, she was doing it to stay healthy. As luck would have it, the Oxford resident was chosen Friday as the winner of the summer program. Kiplinger and her husband, Daniel, and […]
By Colin Baumgartner Review Staff While the school board prepared to offer him the superintendent position on a night in May, Ken Gutman waited patiently at a nearby Starbucks. It’s fitting, then, that five months later, Gutman, the superintendent of Lake Orion Community Schools, will hold the first ever Superintendent Community Coffee of the year. […]
When you think of the Olympics, usually the 100-meter dash or pole vaulting comes to mind. But what about the lawn mowers and weed whippers park groundskeepers use? Well, they had their moment to shine on July 27, when teams from Addison Oaks, Waterford Oaks, Groveland Oaks, and Independence Oaks gathered for their biannual Groundskeeper […]
Anyone who’s driven down Olive St. during the month of August has undoubtedly seen the towering corn grown by Ron Kraus. The stalks seem to go on as far as the eye can see, and are surrounded by tomato plants, heads of cabbage, various colors of peppers, onions and potatoes? just to name a few. […]
In a span of 10 seconds in football time, but nearly 20 minutes in actual time, Lake Orion took full control of the OAA Red last Friday night. Leading Troy, 6-3, and looking for more with just over two minutes left in the first half, Sean Charette hit Jeff Heath on an in-route at the […]
Dr. Kyle Badaoui and his family typically visit their family in Lebanon for three or four weeks each summer. On July 1, Badaoui, better known to his patients at Caruso Chiropractic in downtown Lake Orion as Dr. Kyle, his wife Fernande, and their children, Christa, 5, and Elie, 4, completed the 20-hour journey to his […]
They’ve got food, they’ve got fun, they’ve even got a car show. And best of all’it’s free! The 4th Annual Oakwood Community Fair will take place Saturday, August 26, at Oakwood Community Church in Ortonville to show the community that ‘Oakwood Cares.? The day of fun will start at 11 a.m. and lasts until 5 […]
Congratulations to Oxford resident Robert Hewett for being named as one of the four July winners of the Oakland County Parks Annual Fishing Contest at Addison Oaks. The 15-year-old reeled in a 8.5-inch, 3-ounce, crappie fish over the 4th of July weekend at the park’s Buhl Lake. Hewett said he’s always liked fishing and has […]