Forget what you’ve heard about this year’s summer blockbusters, the film Love & Plutonium will have Oxford residents cheering for the good guys ? or girls rather ? on Saturday, August 6. Of course, the film in no way measures up to the epic battle between good and evil in Star Wars, but this sci-fi […]
A 2-year-old girl was found sitting on Rochester Rd.and Romeo Rd. in the pouring rain by three individuals driving by on July 16 at about 9:30 a.m. According to the police report, the girl was unresponsive and was unable to tell the people where she lived. She was wearing pink and white pajamas and had […]
When someone mentions they are building a straw bale house, one might picture the straw house from the three little pigs? story. Not so. This house can’t be blown down. Straw bale homes are composed of a thatched roof, straw bale walls covered with earthen plaster and use a fieldstone foundation. They are solid walls […]
After New Year’s Eve, most vow to loose weight, quit smoking or change their outlook on life. Oxford resident Jeff Weaver, on the other hand, made it his goal to qualify for the Ironman Florida Triathalon this year. If only all New Year’s resolutions went as well as his. Just last month, twenty-eight-year-old Weaver took […]
After working 30 years for the Village of Oxford, Rose Bejma will be retiring from her postition as clerk on July 15. Bejma was born in Detroit and graduated from Pershing High School in 1967 and began working at a tool-and-dye shop. Soon after, Bejma met her husband Michael and got married in 1970, moving […]
Congratulations to Oxford teen Madeline ‘Maddy? Thompson for winning the $1,000 Justin A. Schwartz Memorial Scholarship. The thirteen-year-old daughter of Gary and Sally Thompson is an eighth-grader at Kingsbury School and won the scholarship on June 10. The Schwartz scholarship is given annually to a graduating Kingsbury student who strives toward high academic achievement, works […]
So far this season, we have had over 12 days of 90-plus degree weather. This week, the local weather folks say we’ll get more 90-degree heat. With the hot weather upon us, we humans flock to the air-conditioners, beaches and swimming pools to cool off. But, let’s not forget we’re not the only ones suffering […]
It’s summer time, and for residents of Leonard and surrounding communities, that can mean only one thing–it’s time for the 53 Annual Strawberry Festival. All the fun begins with a Friday night kick-off dinner on July 15 catered by Isola’s Pizzaria. Chicken, ribs, corn on the cob, Italian sandwiches, potato salad and pizza by the […]
A serious car accident on Lapeer and Drahner at 7:30 a.m. left a 42-year-old Oxford woman in serious but stable condition. The crash had traffic at the intersection snarled during morning rush-hour traffic, Wednesday, June 29. According to Oakland County Sheriff’s reports, the woman was traveling northbound on Lapeer in her 1995 Ford Taurus. She […]
When Tom Spencer was appointed to his new position as the local pastor at Lakeville United Methodist Church, it felt like a homecoming to him and for his wife Kim. The Spencers, who moved to Lakeville from Rose City just last Saturday, both grew up in Oakland County — Tom in Lake Orion, and Kim […]