Editor’s Note: This week we wrap up our trip down memory lane with Part II of The Year in Review 2014. Let’s all hope for a fantastic 2015 full of good health, prosperity and love. Happy New Year! April 16 Friends, family members and fellow Rotarians delighted in roasting retired Oxford Leader publisher James A. […]
By Meg Peters Review Staff Writer After a year of being back in the Community Education Resource Building (C.E.R.C.), the Lake Orion Learning Options Program is seeing some exciting changes. Through a district wide grant titled 31A, Learning Options staff is expanding for 2015. The alternative education program, which began in the mid-1980s, has been […]
By Dan Shriner Review Editor Lake Orion’s competitive cheer team has again established itself as one of the elite teams in the OAA Red Division with sights on being one of the top squads in the state. Coach Nicole Hills? Dragons have won two of the three competitions they have entered this season, most recently […]
Clear Lake third-graders got some practical knowledge when sophomore Alex Schultz and seniors Savannah Fullmer and Olivia Hale spent four weeks teaching them about financial literacy as a part of their marketing research project for DECA. ‘The lessons consisted of saving and spending, money knowledge such as coins and bills, budgeting, and credit, interest, and […]
Ortonville- You gotta have art. The Detroit Institute of Art’s motto applies everywhere and this spring, the world-class museum from the big city will bring their Inside|Out program to the village, transforming a rural town into an art showcase. ‘We scored this program because we are a charming town and have a beautiful background for […]
In May voters will be asked for a hike in state sales tax’the first since 1994. The sales tax ballot initiative needed two-thirds support by members of both the House and Senate in a Lame Duck session on Dec. 19. Once fully implemented, the proposal will provide $1.3 billion in additional dollars to roads, $260 […]
Brendan Hunter will visit a mosque this coming week. Last month, he went to church and in November, he went to a synagogue. The 12-year-old self-identified Lutheran isn’t having a faith crisis or searching for a new place to worship. What he seeks is education and a better understanding of others with varying beliefs, something […]
Three of every four households that receive The Citizen are reading the newspaper. That’s the report from the Circulation Verification Council (CVC) that in late 2014 completed an audit of The Citizen newspaper. The CVC is an independent, third-party reporting company that audits 3,856 editions nationwide with a combined circulation of more than 55 million. […]
A Groveland Township man who poached a deer in October will not serve jail time, but will lose the right to hunt for the next three years and has been ordered to pay more than $2,500 in restitution and fines. Nidal Khalil Haddad pleaded guilty Dec. 11 to taking a deer without a license and […]
On Dec. 20, competitors in Michigan’s largest middle school robotics event to date’attracting about 50 teams statewide? gathered at Brandon High School for the First Tech Challenge Supra. Brandon Tech, representing Brandon Middle School with robot #5976, advanced to the semi finals following the day long event. The BMS team’s finish, along with the software […]